ABSTRACT
The previous chapter noted the complexity of the legal framework within which the UK state works. In looking at the state, it is clear that there is a core executive that makes up the state, and the focus of that core executive is the government. State crime therefore most directly applies to the government and, in its implementation of government policy, the core executive. The development of the state, or core executive, in the UK has led to a closed system of government that both espouses the tenets and practices of democracy and whose roles and responsibilities primarily focus on the delivering of services relating to the citizen in a domestic context.
