Since September 11, All Roads Lead to Rome

Russell, Steve

doi:10.1007/s10612-004-6112-8

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“…Numerous qualitative case studies and some quantitative analyses have been conducted on problems such as human rights violations, illegal uses of military force, regulatory failure, war crimes, genocide, and state and corporate relationships resulting in harmful outcomes (Hogan et al 2006;Kauzlarich and Kramer 1998;Kauzlarich et al 2003;Michalowski 2006, 2005;Walters 2006;White 2008). Considerable research has also been conducted on the structure and process of some formal social control institutions such as the International Criminal Court, various United Nations War Crimes Tribunals, and Truth Commissions (Hagan and Levi 2005;Hagan 2004;Jamieson and McEvoy 2005;Ross 2000a, b;Russell 2005;Stanley 2005).…”

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Hurricane Katrina Victimization as a State Crime of Omission

Faust

Kauzlarich

2008

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Several popular narratives assign responsibility to a host of political officials on the local, state, and federal levels for the excess human suffering stemming from Hurricane Katrina. The three main goals of this article are to (1) summarize these claims and situate them within the burgeoning literature on state crime in criminology, (2) discern what victims of the hurricane subjectively identify as the source(s) of their victimization, and (3) compare the latter and the former in order to demonstrate the appropriateness of conceptualizing the excess suffering of Hurricane Katrina victims as a state crime of omission. We explore these three subjects through documentary analysis and interviews with thirteen victims of Hurricane Katrina. Major findings are that all of the interviewees express profound dissatisfaction with various state actions and inactions before, during, and after Katrina in ways consistent with the documentary and polling data. This constellation of similar claims and evidence along with the obvious social injury caused by multiple state failures provide the basis for conceptualizing governmental negligence in the context of Katrina as a state crime of omission.Hurricane Katrina hit the United States Gulf Coast on Monday, August 29, 2005. Tens of millions of people then watched with astonishment as the disaster in New Orleans unfolded. After the hurricane had passed, the situation quickly began to deteriorate further as the breeched levees could do nothing to stop the flow of Lake Pontchartrain into the lowlying areas of the city. Flood levels as high as fifteen feet in some areas left people stranded on rooftops for days and poor evacuation and relief planning resulted in inhuman conditions at both the New Orleans Superdome and the Convention Center. All told, at least 1,400 people died, hundreds of thousands, perhaps millions, were displaced, rendered homeless and/or unemployed, basic necessities such as clean water, access to health care, and food were scarce, and most children no longer had schools to attend. Depression,

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