ABSTRACT
The role of the state and the extent to which citizens trust the machinations of those in power helps us to account for the popularity or otherwise of the jury. In short, the fashion in which states are organised has profound impacts on the way in which apparatuses of justice and control are given shape. Genocide, perhaps the worst crime of all, has traditionally been ignored by criminology. Day and Vandiver have argued that criminologists have paid scant attention to genocide because it was assumed that political science would own the subject. Comparative research has highlighted the importance of the study of sexual violence in relation to genocide. That there is a connection between sexual violence and warfare has long been known. The notion of the state paving the way for a neo-liberal mode of governance is described particularly lucidly by Naomi Klein in her book The Shock Doctrine.
