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State Crime Pub Date : 2023-07-28 DOI: 10.13169/statecrime.12.2.0001

Hazel M. G. Cameron

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Operation Gukurahundi: A Policy of Genocidal Rape and Sexual Violence in Zimbabwe 1983–1984 Gukurahundi行动:1983-1984年津巴布韦种族灭绝强奸和性暴力政策

State Crime Pub Date : 2023-07-28 DOI: 10.13169/statecrime.13.1.0001

Hazel Cameron

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The politics of fear and the suppression of Indigenous language activism in Asia: Prospects for the United Nations’ Decade of Indigenous Languages 恐惧政治与亚洲原住民语言运动的镇压:联合国原住民语言十年展望

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State Crime Pub Date : 2023-01-01 DOI: 10.13169/statecrime.12.1.0029

G. Roche, Madoka Hammine, Jesus Federico C. Hernandez, Jess Kruk

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Ransomware through the lens of state crime 从国家犯罪的角度看勒索软件

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State Crime Pub Date : 2023-01-01 DOI: 10.13169/statecrime.12.1.0001

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Vasja Badalič, The War Against Civilians: Victims of the “War on Terror” in Afghanistan and Pakistan, reviewed by Victoria Canning 《针对平民的战争:阿富汗和巴基斯坦“反恐战争”的受害者》，维多利亚·坎宁评论

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State Crime Pub Date : 2023-01-01 DOI: 10.13169/statecrime.12.1.0100

V. Canning

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It was the anarchists: The quest for the truth about Italy’s bombs 那是无政府主义者:对意大利炸弹真相的追寻

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State Crime Pub Date : 2023-01-01 DOI: 10.13169/statecrime.12.1.0051

Vincenzo Scalia

{"title":"It was the anarchists: The quest for the truth about Italy’s bombs","authors":"Vincenzo Scalia","doi":"10.13169/statecrime.12.1.0051","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.13169/statecrime.12.1.0051","url":null,"abstract":"On 12 December 1969 a bomb exploded in Piazza Fontana, in Milan, killing 17 people and wounding 84. This paper uses critical and activist criminology, and explores, through a resistance lens, the struggle for truth that followed. On the one hand, denial through a strategy of manipulation was carried out by both the Italian government and mainstream media, which placed the blame on the anarchist movement, laying the groundwork for an authoritarian upheaval. On the other hand, the mobilization of both the old and the new left solidified to counter this denial by illuminating state responsibility for the Piazza Fontana bombing. This paper models the specific species of state crime denial used by a transnational coalition of far-right forces operating in and around the Italian state, and the forms of resistance within left civil society that helped counter denial and stall the authoritarian drift. It also looks to expand the literature on resistance to state crime, by documenting a still poorly understood episode in Italian history where civic opposition to state violence helped abort the further institutionalization of authoritarian politics. This paper will shed a light on the dialectical process between state crime and resistance, as theorized by Green and Ward. Moreover, an analysis of resistance stages through the use of Stanley and McCulloch’s work, will allow me to carry out an in-depth analysis of the mobilization process that took place after the Piazza Fontana bombing.","PeriodicalId":42457,"journal":{"name":"State Crime","volume":"40 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"66273149","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Josephine Beoku-Betts and Fredline A. M’Cormack-Hale eds. War, Women, and Post-Conflict Empowerment: Lessons from Sierra Leone, reviewed by Jillian LaBranche Josephine Beoku-Betts和Fredline A. M 'Cormack-Hale编。《战争、妇女和冲突后赋权:塞拉利昂的经验教训》，作者:吉利安·拉布兰彻

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State Crime Pub Date : 2023-01-01 DOI: 10.13169/statecrime.12.1.0108

Jillian LaBranche

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Ransomware through the lens of state crime: Conceptualizing ransomware groups as cyber proxies, pirates, and privateers 国家犯罪视角下的勒索软件:将勒索软件组织概念化为网络代理、海盗和私掠者

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State Crime Pub Date : 2023-01-01 DOI: 10.13169/statecrime.12.1.0004

James Martin, C. Whelan

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引用次数: 4

Monish Bhatia and Victoria Canning eds. Stealing Time: Migration,Temporalities and State Violence, reviewed by Scott Poynting Monish Bhatia和Victoria Canning需要。《偷走时间:移民、时间性和国家暴力》，斯科特·波因廷(Scott Poynting)评论

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State Crime Pub Date : 2023-01-01 DOI: 10.13169/statecrime.12.1.0096

S. Poynting

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“We will give our blood, but not our land!”—Repertoires of resistance and state-organized land-grabbing at a Bangladeshi tea plantation “我们可以献出我们的鲜血，但不能献出我们的土地!”——孟加拉国一个茶园发生的抵抗和国家组织的土地掠夺

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State Crime Pub Date : 2023-01-01 DOI: 10.13169/statecrime.12.1.0068

Ashrafuzzaman Khan, K. Lasslett

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