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Political violence includes an array of conducts and events that defy unilateral examination. It may be authorized or unauthorized violence, and while the latter is almost always associated with crime, the former is normally deemed an expression of the legitimate monopoly in the use of force characterizing modern societies.
In between these two poles, I identify the following phenomena: civil war, genocide, ethnic cleansing, terrorism, intercommunal violence, military coup, political assassination, state repression, and lastly the violence associated with organized crime and cartels.
Mar 17, 2021 · The generally hidden nature of political crime involves acts by ruling elites that are clearly corrupt, yet fully ingrained in existing societal arrangements that act to thwart enforcement efforts, regulatory action, and judicial involvement.
- Mary Dodge, Henry N. Pontell
- 2021
Political violence is a particular form of repression involving the use of physical force to achieve political goals. Acts of repression and/or political violence often violate fundamental human rights, and are sometimes referred to as human rights abuse.
Feb 16, 2022 · The paper explores the relationship between crime victimization and political participation, making the argument that the observed (and oft-cited) relationship in surveys is the result of response bias.
One possible solution is to define political corruption and state crime—as well as their perpetrators and victims—as broadly as possible to include a variety of scenarios that may or may not exhibit violations of criminal law.
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Jun 10, 2021 · We begin with an overview and critique of the crime–terror literature and offer a reasoning for connecting the crime–terror nexus studies to the broader scholarship on political economies of violence.
