Disaster by Design

Datos Bibliográficos

ID8403258
AutoresPenny Green (autor de correspondencia)
Año2005
Volumen45
Número4
Páginas528-546
Fecha de publicación2005-07-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaThe British Journal of Criminology (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0007-0955 • E-ISSN: 1464-3529
EditorialKing's College London (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1093/bjc/azi036
OpenAlexW2068366718
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas40
Referencias citadas2

An underlying assumption of this paper is that many ‘natural’ disasters are the direct outcome of ‘deviant’ political and economic decisions and actions by states. While focusing on three recent major earthquakes in Turkey, the paper explores the dynamic relationship between state power, corruption, corporate power and, to a limited extent, organized crime in the context of examining responsibility for earthquake-precipitated catastrophe. It documents the ‘network of responsibilities, opportunities and pressures’ which combine as state crime to create earthquake disasters involving mass human rights violations. The paper argues for a reinterpretation of natural disasters in terms of human rights violations, while developing themes around state culpability which first emerged in an Economic and Social Research Council-funded study undertaken by the author (with Al Hussaini and Curry) on the 1999 Marmara earthquake in Turkey.

Context (archaeology) · Criminology · Culpability · Geography · Human rights · Language change · Law and economics · Natural disaster · Political science · Politics · Power (physics) · Reinterpretation · Sociology · State (computer science) · Computer Science · Crime, Illicit Activities, and Governance · Law · Wildlife Conservation and Criminology Analyses