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ISCI launches new academic journal: State Crime

We at ISCI are delighted to announce the release of the first edition of our new journal. Read More

Research Brief: Assessment of HET Review Processes and Procedures in Royal Military Police Investigation Cases

Written by Dr Patricia Lundy. Read More

Overt racism as State Policy at the Dead Sea

Dr Hazel Cameron, ISCI Friend, witnesses Israeli Jews, Europeans and Westerners gaining unrestricted access to Dead Sea resort of Kalia, while Palestinians refused entry. Read More

Brazil's Amnesty Caravan

Professor Penny Green describes her recent experience witnessing Brazil's Amnesty Caravan; a hybrid truth-seeking/reparation-offering initiative for victims who suffered repression under Brazil's military dictatorship. Read More

French involvement in Argentine War

Documents found by ISCI Researcher in the Parisian diplomatic archives seem to suggest that France was directly implicated in transforming the Argentine war and security professionals into official torturers Read More

‘Changing Contours of World Order’ a talk by Professor Noam Chomsky

photo by John Soares

On 10 October 2011 Noam Chomsky launched ISCI's new journal, State Crime at King's College London. We are grateful to Pod Academy for providing us with the audio podcast of Professor Chomsky's lecture 'Changing Contours of World Order' available here:

[Photo by John Soares]

About State Crime

The most serious crimes in the modern world, on any reasonable definition, are acts that are largely committed, instigated or condoned by governments and their officials: for example, genocide, war crimes, torture and corruption. However, state crime is under-acknowledged by popular and academic authors. Calling these activities 'crimes' should be uncontroversial as they violate international and/or national criminal law. A purely legalistic definition of state crime, however, is unsatisfactory for at least three reasons.