ABSTRACT
Within broad terms of motive, the state crime discipline has two perspectives. The lesser perspective of state-corporate crime also includes motive in that the relationship between the state and the corporate sector determines both the propensity to crime and also who acts on behalf of whom and how in the relationship. Most state crime authors look outside such a relationship for explanations of drivers or motives for state crime, primarily to organisational deviance. It is a usual perspective, more generally applicable across a range of crimes and countries, but it does have the drawback, certainly in terms of the perspectives of political science and political philosophy, of assuming that conduct that may be labelled a state crime is deviant behaviour by those involved, or by those adjudicating on the behaviour.
