ABSTRACT
The biggest impediments to the study of controlling state crime are definitional, conceptual, theoretical, and methodological in nature as well as lacking in the design of practical methods to abolish, combat, control, decrease, minimize, prevent, or resist this type of behavior. This chapter reviews these shortcomings, and then develops a tentative model of the process to control state crime. The principal state criminogenic actors who engage in state crime are the military, national security organizations, and various police agencies. While many excellent case studies on all of these institutions have been conducted, there is a dearth of academic literature analyzing how these institutions are controlled, who controls them, and the efficacy of these measures. Research on state crimes against individuals and classes of victims suggests that a number of other organizations and processes need to be examined. The chapter also examines the methods that private and government organizations have used to control state crime in different countries.
