ISCI is a cross-disciplinary research centre working to further our understanding of state crime: organisational deviance violating human rights

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31 Jul 2019

Political Gamesmanship

Isobel Roele and Amy Corcoran (July 2019)    When we first pitched our project to for Tate Exchange, an outreach and engagement platform run by Tate Modern, we had not quite considered the politics of using a Snakes & Ladders board to illustrate the perils, inequalities and indignities of immigration rules and processes. As soon as we began...

29 May 2019

State Crime Journal: Volume 8, Issue 1

State Crime Journal, Vol. 8, No. 1 (2019) Geopolitical Crimes: A Preliminary Jurisprudential Proposal 

8 May 2019

Julian Assange and State Crime

Working Paper by Professor Scott Poynting – School of Justice, Queensland University of Technology...

24 Apr 2019

U.S. Kills Tuareg Civilians in Libyan Airstrike

An ISCI Report by Prof Jeremy Keenan...

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The State Crime Testimony Project (SCTP) aims to enrich understandings of elite deviance through the provision of data and materials that is often marginalised, hidden or destroyed by those in power. During the course of the 20th century newly emerging, and well established, states killed and plundered on a grand scale. However, these acts of barbarity have not met silence. Indeed, diverse communities of resistance around the world have, and continue to, censure domestic and foreign governments for trammelling fundamental human rights norms.

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29 Sep 2014

The ‘Cop in your Head’ or the Clown in the Street: Antanas Mockus and the Theatre of Civic Culture

 ‘When there is nothing to be done… it’s time to bring out the clowns.’[1],  Paul Bromberg, Director Institute of Culture, Bogota, in conversation with Antanas Mockus...

29 Sep 2014

Waiting in Line Against the State: The Orange Alternative

One secret policeman asks another: ‘So, what do you think of the government’? His colleague looks around before...

8 Sep 2014

Interrogating the Corporate Machine

‘I won’t believe it until I see it on TV.[1]

Resistance and Pride: The Murals of Orgosolo, Sardinia (Vol. 3, No. 1, Spring 2014, pp. 73-101)

The small town of Orgosolo in the mountains of Sardinia is known for its murals: hundreds of them in a town of only...

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