Political crime rarely appears in criminology texts. Political crime does not appear in introduction texts and social problems texts. Political crime is that use of power to reproduce structures of domination. There are five major structures which fuel most of the political crime, which are Patriarchy, Racism, National Chauvinism, Alienation, Ageism. Other forms of white-collar crime are White-Collar Crime, Blue-collar Crime, Pink-collar Crime, Corporate Crime, Occupational Crime, and Organizational Crime. "I usually make distinction between privatized political crime and institutionalized political crime. Rape is an example of the first while warfare exemplar of the second." - T. R. Young, The Red Feather Institute.
Personalized Political Crime: Assault, rape, battering,
beating, mugging, robbery, extortion, murder and threat of violence generally.
Institutional political crime: racism, sexism, religious bigotry; elitist forms of
governance, of work, of education and of communications.
POLITICAL CRIME, POLITICAL JUST1CE, AND POLITICAL
PRISONERS - W. WILLIAM MINOR.
ABSTRACT: Few attempts have previously been made systematically to define or interrelate
the concepts of political crime, political criminal, political justice, and political
prisoner.
Political crime and political criminals are herein defined in terms of motiwtions underlying criminal acts, regardless of the nature of the acts themselves; political justice is defined in terms of the state's reaction to perceived threat; and political prisoners are defined as those incarcerated because of either political crime (politicol criminals) or political justice (victims of repression). Dimensions for a taxonomy of political crime are suggested.
Abolishing probation – a political crime?
- Philip Priestley, Maurice Vanstone, Swansea University.
Ironically, on the eve of its centenary, the probation service–despite its unique
position within the criminal justice system–is in greater danger of extinction than
at any time in its history.
Politics, culture, and political crime: Covariates of abortion clinic attacks in the United States - Joshua D. Freilicha and William Alex Pridemoreb. Abstract: This study examined crime and violence against abortion clinics, testing elements of several theories that may help explain the variation of such attacks.
Terrorist on trial: the context of political crime - JM Post.
When political terrorists stand trial for their violent acts, the political context
inevitably plays a major role. This article describes the trial of an Abu Nidal terrorist
tried in federal court for skyjacking an Egyptian airliner.
Prosecuting Political Crime: An Analysis of Politicizing Terrorism Trials in
Federal Cases 1980 to 2001 - Shields, Christopher., Smith, Brent., Damphousse,
Kelly. and Ziegler, Kris.
Abstract: Research conducted by Smith and Damphousse (1998) reveals that defendants
indicted and convicted after an official FBI terrorism investigation are more likely to
receive harsher prison sentences than nonterrorists convicted for the same lead offense.
Prosecutors in some cases have employed legal tools (e.g. motions in limine) to
prevent any mention of political motive.