Issues in Transnational and Comparative Criminology

… crime is behaviour that the state is organized to punish.

Stanley Cohen, Against Criminology, (1985)

… for large parts of the world’s population, state agents (or paramilitary groups, vigilantes or terrorists) are the normal violators of your “legally protected interests”.

Stanley Cohen, Human Rights and Crimes of the State: The Culture of Denial, (1993)