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War, aggression and state crime: A criminological analysis of the invasion and occupation of Iraq

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The authors argue that the 2003 US/UK invasion and occupation of Iraq was a form of state crime and offer a criminological analysis of the event, arguing that the war on Iraq violated the UN Charter and international humanitarian law.
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In this article, we argue that the 2003 US/UK invasion and occupation of Iraq was a form of state crime and offer a criminological analysis of the event. First, we describe how the war on Iraq violated the UN Charter and international humanitarian law. Then, we provide a narrative analysis of the historical and contemporary origins of this crime through the lens of an integrated model for the study of organizational deviance that has proved useful in the analysis of a number of other upper-world crimes. A key part of our explanation of this war resides in the dynamics of America’s long-standing will to empire coupled with the imperial designs of neoconservative policy makers within the Bush administration.

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Imagining Future Crime in the ' War on Terror '

TL;DR: Pre-crime counter-terrorism measures can be traced through a number of interlinking historical trajectories including the wars on crime and drugs, criminalization and, more fundamentally, in colonial strategies of domination, control and repression.
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What went wrong

Dopson L
- 28 Feb 1980 - 
TL;DR: This book will help you to remember not only the PDF, but also the genre of the book, and you will see from the PDF that your book chosen is absolutely right.
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Pre-Crime and Counter-Terrorism Imagining Future Crime in the ‘War on Terror’

TL;DR: In this article, the authors argue that the shift from post-crime criminal justice to pre-crime national security can be traced through a number of interlinking historical trajectories including the wars on crime and drugs, criminalization and colonial strategies of domination, control and repression.
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Exceptionalism and the ‘War On Terror’ Criminology Meets International Relations

TL;DR: The authors argue that the exception makes possible different insights about the dialectics between law and crime by unpacking the constitutive role of the politics of fear, the importance of the 'international' and the transformed relationship to the future.
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The Crimes of Neo-Liberal Rule in Occupied Iraq

TL;DR: The institutionalisation of corporate corruption that followed the 2003 invasion of Iraq can only be understood within the context of the coalition forces' contempt for universal principles of international law enshrined in the Hague and Geneva treaties.
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TL;DR: A major technique of neutralization centers on the injury or harm involved in the delinquent act as mentioned in this paper, in so far as the delinquent can define himself as lacking responsibility for his deviant actions, the disapproval of self or others is sharply reduced in effectiveness as a restraining influence.
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Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media

TL;DR: In this article, the authors present a survey of the state-of-the-art technologies used in the field of data collection and analysis of data in the context of data aggregation.
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The Challenger Launch Decision: Risky Technology, Culture, and Deviance at NASA

Diane Vaughan
TL;DR: The Eve of the Launch Learning Culture, Revising History Risk, Work Group Culture, and the Norma lization of Deviance The Normalization of deviance, 1981-1984 as discussed by the authors, 19856: The Culture of Production Stuctural Secrecy Lessons Learned Appendix A Cost/Safety Trade-Offs? Scra pping the Escape Rockets and the SRB Contract Award Decision Appendix B Supporting Charts and Documents Appendix C On Theory Elaboration, Organizations, and Historical Ethnography