ABSTRACT
This chapter introduces the reader to an expanded version of the integrated theoretical model of state crime. Drawing on established feminist perspectives as well as theories of gender and sex from outside the field of criminology such as international relations and security study perspectives, an expanded model of the integrated theoretical model of state crime is advanced. Traditional criminological theoretical explanations for criminal offending have focused on the behavior of individuals engaged in street crimes. Opportunities can be defined as the "social interactions where the possibility for a crime to be committed emerges and presents itself to a motivated offender". Gender and sex inform all social interactions and are at the core of all organizational elements of social life. Gender is socially produced and embedded in social institutions and structures. Gender and sex instruct behaviors of individual actors, organizations and states.
