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Victims of State Crime

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This entry reviews the definitions, measurement, extent, and nature of victims of state crimes as well as relevant justice system policies and resistance to victimization by the state. Current theorizing and research on victims of state crime are discussed as are public and criminal justice policy initiatives. Propositions on the victimology of state crime as well as current research findings suggest that the study of state crime victimization requires an appreciation of creative and innovative social and criminal justice policy changes that attend to the diverse needs of those victimized by the state.

As with definitions of state crime itself, there are many competing ways to conceptualize those victimized by the state. There is obviously a vast array of harm and victimization which result from state crime, as well as multiple types of actors, agents, and organizations which may be directly or indirectly involved in this form of organizational crime. The crimes can be against...

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  1. Department of Sociology and Criminal Justice Studies, Southern Illinois University Edwardsville, Edwardsville, IL, 62026, USA

    David Kauzlarich

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  1. Netherlands Institute for the Study of Crime and Law Enforcement (NSCR), Amsterdam, The Netherlands

    Gerben Bruinsma

  2. VU University Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

    Gerben Bruinsma

  3. Department of Criminology, Law and Society, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA, USA

    David Weisburd

  4. Faculty of Law, The Hebrew University, Mt. Scopus, Jerusalem, Israel

    David Weisburd

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Kauzlarich, D. (2014). Victims of State Crime. In: Bruinsma, G., Weisburd, D. (eds) Encyclopedia of Criminology and Criminal Justice. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-5690-2_115

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