1. Political Crime

2. Defining Political Crime
Barkan, “...any illegal or socially injurious act aimed at preserving or changing the existing political and social order”’
Crimes of the Government
Crimes against the Government

3. Crimes by the Government
Genocide
Nazis
Cambodia (Khmer Rouge/Pol Pot, 1970s)
Bosnia-Herzegovina (1992)
Torture/Assassination
Widespread, but short of genocide (Russia Under Stalin)
In United States?

4. Crimes By Government II
Surveillance/Infiltration
COINTELPRO (1950s-1970s)
The “Patriot Act” (October, 2001)
Legal Repression
Show trials, Imprisoning dissidents
U.S.?
Labor Radicals
The Palmer Raids
Communists (McCarthy)

5. Crimes by Government III
Illegal Experiments
Tuskegee experiment
Nazi experiments
State-Corporate Crime
Challenger explosion
Political Corruption
Teapot Dome, Watergate, Iran-Contra…

6. Crimes Against the Government
Mass Political Violence
Rebellion & Riots
Political Assassinations

7. Crimes Against the Government II
Civil Disobedience
Direct vs. Indirect
Socrates, St. Thomas Aquinas, U.S. Quakers, Susan B. Anthony, Rosa Parks, MLK’s “Letter from Birmingham City Jail.”
Current U.S.?
Espionage/Treason

8. Terrorism—A Typology Vigilante Terrorism Insurgent Terrorism
Transnational Terrorism
State Terrorism
How to Combat Terrorism?

9. Explaining Political Crime
Political Crime as heterogeneous
Much P.C. revolves around Power
Totalitarian vs. Democratic governments