ABSTRACT
This chapter presents that any coherent effort to control state crime must be rooted in a clear understanding of the relevant concepts and terms. It explores that the term governmental crime will be used as a broad term for the whole range of crimes committed in a governmental context. An argument has been advanced for adopting the term governmental crime as the broad, all-encompassing term for a range of illegal and demonstrably harmful activities carried out from within, or in association with, governmental status. Governmental crime can clearly produce structural conditions and generate an ambience that facilitates or promotes various forms of white collar crime. Political white collar crime has been more fully controlled by formal governmental processes, mass media exposes, and civil suits. Antinuclear weapons activists continue to produce or simply hold nuclear weapons and lead the world toward the possibility of the ultimate crime, the obliteration of humanity itself in a nuclear war.
