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ISCI at Tent City University

Penny Green and Chris Williams gave a presentation at the London 'Occupy' campaign's Tent City University about state crime Read More

Greece, human rights emergency on border

Melanie McFadyean reports on the dark places in Greece Read More

French involvement in Argentine War

Documents found by ISCI Researcher in the Parisian diplomatic archives seem to suggest that France was directly implicated in transforming the Argentine war and security professionals into official torturers Read More

Genocide and the Contextual Evidence of Children

Children aged between six and eighteen years of age use drawings to describe their dreams for the future and their strongest memories Read More

State Crime and Resistance

written by Elizabeth Stanley and Jude McCulloch Read More

‘Changing Contours of World Order’ a talk by Professor Noam Chomsky

The video of the event is now available here.

photo by John Soares

[photo by John Soares]

Monday, 10th October 2011

King's College London, Strand Campus

About State Crime

The most serious crimes in the modern world, on any reasonable definition, are acts that are largely committed, instigated or condoned by governments and their officials: for example, genocide, war crimes, torture and corruption. However, state crime is under-acknowledged by popular and academic authors. Calling these activities 'crimes' should be uncontroversial as they violate international and/or national criminal law. A purely legalistic definition of state crime, however, is unsatisfactory for at least three reasons: