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British Journal of Criminology Advance Access published online on April 19, 2005
British Journal of Criminology, doi:10.1093/bjc/azi031
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Article from a special issue on state crime

State Crime in the Heart of Darkness

Tony Ward 1*

1 Department of Law, University of Hull

* To whom correspondence should be addressed.
Tony Ward, E-mail: a.ward{at}hull.ac.uk


  Abstract

A central task for a criminology of state crime is to explain why the cruelty and destructiveness of regimes of terror so often seem to exceed anything required by the rational pursuit of organizational goals. This article explores competing explanations of terror through a case study of the Congo Free State (1885-1908) and argues that ‘excesses’ are committed in circumstances where it is rational for organizations and individual actors to minimize the moral costs of cruelty.


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