CRIM 335 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Edward Snowden, Molly Maguires, Syphilis
18 Apr 2018
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Includes: political repression and human rights violations (genocide, torture, assassination, and other violence), unethical or illegal experimentation, the aiding and abetting of corporate crime, political corruption, crime against government. Includes: terrorism, assassination, and other political violence, nonviolent civil disobedience, espionage and treason. Crime by government: political repression and human rights violations, repression: government suppression of dissent through violent and legal means, genocide: the systematic extermination of a category of people because of their race, ethnicity, or religion. Using the guise of the law to legitimate political repression, even though the arrests and prosecutions are based on trumped up charges: prompt the public to view dissidents as common criminals. 33 cities to arrest radicals after wwi: southern civil rights movement: thousands arrested and jailed on trumped up charges and subjected to beatings and possibility of death in southern jails. Nixon: he was afraid he was going to lose.
