State Crime in the Heart of Darkness

A central task for a criminology of state crime is to explain why the cruelty and destructiveness of regimes of terror so often seem to exceed anything required by the rational pursuit of organizational goals. This article explores competing explanations of terror through a case study of the Congo F...

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Main Author: Ward, Tony (Author)
Format: Electronic/Print Article
Language:Undetermined language
Published: 2005
In: The British journal of criminology
Online Access: Volltext (doi)
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