STATE CRIME
Journal of the International State Crime Initiative
Volume 12 • Number 2 • 2023
“I think there’s no challenge in our world quite as daunting as finding effective ways to address state crime. I believe that the future of democracy, world peace, and global justice each crucially depend on the capacity of peoples throughout the world to hold the state accountable for its failures to comply with law and its refusals to promote justice.”
Richard Falk
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© INTERNATIONAL STATE CRIME INITIATIVE 2023
STATE CRIME
Journal of the International State Crime Initiative
EDITORS IN CHIEF
Prof Penny Green (Queen Mary University of London)
Prof Tony Ward (Northumbria University)
Prof Kristian Lasslett (University of Ulster)
Dr Thomas MacManus (Queen Mary University of London)
BOOK REVIEWS EDITOR
Dr Dawid Stańczak (Ulster University)
ASSISTANT EDITOR
Sophie Knowles-Mofford
EDITORIAL BOARD
Dr Michael Grewcock (University New South Wales)
Prof Neve Gordon (Queen Mary University of London)
Prof Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
Dr Vincenzo Bollettino (Harvard University)
Prof Scott Poynting (Queensland University of Technology)
Prof Jude McCulloch (Monash University)
Prof Sharon Pickering (Monash University)
Dr Elizabeth Stanley (Victoria University)
Prof Bill Rolston (University of Ulster)
Prof Frank Pearce (Queen’s University)
Prof Ron Kramer (Western Michigan University)
Prof Ray Michalowski (Northern Arizona University)
Prof Martha K. Huggins (Tulane University)
Prof Hilal Elver (University of California, Santa Barbara)
Dr José Atiles-Osoria (University of Illinois)
Dr Victoria Mason (Australian National University)
Prof Jeremy Keenan (SOAS, University of London)
Shaazka Beyerle (John Hopkins University)
Dr Rachel Seoighe (University of Kent)
Prof Elisabeth Saatjian Weber (University of California, Santa Barbara)
Dr Hazel Cameron (Pearl International Insights)
Prof Jennifer Leaning (Harvard University)
Prof David Whyte (University of Liverpool)
Prof Steve Tombs (The Open University)
Prof Jennifer Schirmer (Harvard University/ London School of Economics)
Prof David Kauzlarich (Southern Illinois University)
Dr Cathy Gormley Heenan (University of Ulster)
Dr Sam Raphael (University of Westminster)
AIMS AND SCOPE OF THE JOURNAL
State Crime is the first peer-reviewed, international journal that seeks to disseminate leading research on the illicit practices of states. The concept of state crime is not confined to legally recognized states but can include any entity that exerts political and military control over a substantial territory. The journal’s focus is a reflection of the growing awareness within criminology that state criminality is endemic and acts as a significant barrier to security and development. Contributions from a variety of disciplinary and theoretical perspectives are welcomed. Topics covered by the journal include: torture; genocide and other forms of government and politically organized mass killing; war crimes; state–corporate crime; state-organized crime; natural disasters exacerbated by government (in)action; asylum and refugee policy and practice; state terror; political and economic corruption; and resistance to state violence and corruption. See here for a guide for contributors: http://statecrime.org/journal/notes-for-contributors/
ABOUT ISCI
State Crime is administered by the International State Crime Initiative (ISCI). ISCI is a multi-disciplinary, cross-institutional and international initiative designed to collate, analyse and disseminate research-based knowledge about criminal state practices and resistance to them. Launched in 2010 with an inaugural lecture by Robert Fisk, ISCI actively develops and administers diverse spaces which enable state crime researchers to engage in meaningful dialogue with civil society in order to both understand and prevent illicit state practices. ISCI is institutionally supported by Queen Mary University of London and partnered with Northumbria University and the University of Ulster. Further information on ISCI and its members can be found at the initiative’s website: www.statecrime.org.
Contents
Preface: Israel’s Genocide of the Palestinian People 123
Penny Green
International Expert Statement on Israeli State Crime 126
Penny Green et al.
Articles
Abolitionism, Settler Colonialism, and State Crime 132
Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian and Stephen Sheehi
Captive Maternals vs. Compradors: The Case of Mumia Abu-Jamal 146
Joy James
Demilitarize! Durham 2 Palestine: Upending Circuits of State Violence 166
Noura Erakat
What Do Apologies Apologize For? Rearrangements of State Violence 187
Sunera Thobani
On Love, the Palestinian Way: Kinship, Care, and Abolition in Palestinian Feminist Praxis 206
Sarah Ihmoud
Cultural Robbery, the Carceral System and the Settler Coloniality of Multiculturalism in Moroccan-Occupied Western Sahara 225
Joanna Allan
An Abolitionist Livability Against State Carceral Unchilding Ahmad Manasra’s Life Making 245
Abeer Otman and Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian
It Didn’t Begin in Hate: Why a Hate Crimes Framework Can’t Take Us to Abolition 267
Sherene H. Razack
Daring to Imagine: A Future Outside Zionism 279
Nadim N. Rouhana
Thinking Palestine and Abolition in Ethnic Studies 304
Loubna Qutami
Book reviews
J. Balint, Keeping Hold of Justice-Encounters Between Law and Colonialism, reviewed by Thalia Anthony 322
I. Katz, The Common Camp: Architecture of Power and Resistance in Israel–Palestine, reviewed by Penny Green 329
Notes on contributors 332