ABSTRACT
The intent is to change existing social conditions, rather than for individual personal gain. Political crimes, violent and/or non-violent, against the state involve deliberate violations of the law for political purposes. In the US, the earliest form of violent political crime against the state is the Revolutionary War, which, had the colonists been defeated, would have resulted in prosecutions for treason which made it illegal to levy war against the King. Native Americans have sometimes relied on violent crimes against the state to protest and change the social conditions to which they were subjected by the Anglo-state. State corruption is the illegal or unethical use of state authority tor personal or political gain, and exists at every level of government, from police to the presidency. Federal agencies are deeply involved in crimes of political repression in the United States.
