Tag: human rights
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Corporate Enabled State Crime 2021 – Pegasus Spyware
Pegasus Spyware – an example of corporate enabled state crime breaching the human right of privacy in 2021
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The Deportation of Chevon Brown – A Breach of Human Rights?
It can be difficult to find easy to understand examples of the state breaching individual human rights, but the recent deportation of Chevon Brown might just be one such example. This case study from February 2020 is relevant to the ‘state crime and human right’s topic within the A-level sociology Crime and Deviance module. In…
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The Forced Labour behind Christmas Cards
A family recently found a plea for help in a ‘charity’ Christmas Card from Tesco. The message read “We are foreign prisoners in Shanghai Qingpu prison China. Forced to work against our will. Please help us and notify human rights organisation.” According to this Sky News report, the message requested that whoever read it contact…
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What to do about Shamima Begum?
Shamima Begum was just 15 years old when she left her home in Bethnal Green, London, to join Islamic State in Syria. Now, four years later, she has witnessed two of her children die of illness and malnutrition, and fears for the life of her third child, born in a refugee camp in Eastern Syria,…
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Britain’s recent involvement in torture – a good example of a ‘state crime’
Parliament’s Intelligence and Security Committee It’s been 15 years since allegations first emerged of Britain’s involvement in the torture of those suspected of the 9/11 terror attacks, and earlier this month (July 2018) an official report has finally been released which reveals the ‘true’ extent of Britain’s compliance with the USA’s programme of torture. According…
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What is State Crime?
Green and Ward (2005) define state crime as ‘illegal or deviant activities perpetrated by the state, or with the complicity of state agencies’. State crimes are committed by, or on behalf of nation states in order to achieve their policies. So WHO can commit state crime? According to the above definition anyone working for the…
