the nexus between crime and politics
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Politics, the means of influencing the state and crime the means of avoiding the state.
The three have always been related. Those with great influence on the state may not need much crime; they get their way chiefly through politics. Those with no influence are naturally drawn to state avoidance options. For some crime may be a rational economic choice. When it suits them, groups may combine politics and crime, using some of one and some of the other. The combination of all three, the interface of the state with politics and crime, is called corruption.
Politics and crime grow from the same impulse, namely, the drive to quickly obtain money and power. Neither are wedded to violence – it’s inefficient and costly – pushed or threatened, both quickly turn violent. Politics and crime know and understand each other quite well, forming an almost symbiotic relationship. Politics needs money to win elections and influence and pays little attention to the sources of this money (e.g., Japanese Liberal Democratic politicians and yakuza gangsters). And crime needs the protection of politics to continue its enterprises (e.g., the inability of Russian security police to solve a single assassination).
At times, politics and crime semipublicly fuse into a single corrupt state, as in Slobodan Milosevic’s Yugoslavia. There the fatal shooting of Arkan, a state-protected bank robber (in Sweden) and mass murderer (in Bosnia), removed one of the props of Milosevic’s rule and paved the way to his electoral defeat.
Imagine a country where the state is so weak it cannot do the minimum things a state must do – exercise sovereignty, the quality of being boss on its own turf, able to control unruly elements – and offer citizens a modicum of security and order.
In such a country, politics, because it is unrestrained, easily turns violent. Crime, because it has little to fear from the state, ignores state power, intermingles with politics, and eats into state power. We need not look far for such a country.
The three have always been related. Those with great influence on the state may not need much crime; they get their way chiefly through politics. Those with no influence are naturally drawn to state avoidance options. For some crime may be a rational economic choice. When it suits them, groups may combine politics and crime, using some of one and some of the other. The combination of all three, the interface of the state with politics and crime, is called corruption.
Politics and crime grow from the same impulse, namely, the drive to quickly obtain money and power. Neither are wedded to violence – it’s inefficient and costly – pushed or threatened, both quickly turn violent. Politics and crime know and understand each other quite well, forming an almost symbiotic relationship. Politics needs money to win elections and influence and pays little attention to the sources of this money (e.g., Japanese Liberal Democratic politicians and yakuza gangsters). And crime needs the protection of politics to continue its enterprises (e.g., the inability of Russian security police to solve a single assassination).
At times, politics and crime semipublicly fuse into a single corrupt state, as in Slobodan Milosevic’s Yugoslavia. There the fatal shooting of Arkan, a state-protected bank robber (in Sweden) and mass murderer (in Bosnia), removed one of the props of Milosevic’s rule and paved the way to his electoral defeat.
Imagine a country where the state is so weak it cannot do the minimum things a state must do – exercise sovereignty, the quality of being boss on its own turf, able to control unruly elements – and offer citizens a modicum of security and order.
In such a country, politics, because it is unrestrained, easily turns violent. Crime, because it has little to fear from the state, ignores state power, intermingles with politics, and eats into state power. We need not look far for such a country.
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olitics, the means of influencing the state and crime the means of avoiding the state.
The three have always been related. Those with great influence on the state may not need much crime; they get their way chiefly through politics. Those with no influence are naturally drawn to state avoidance options. For some crime may be a rational economic choice. When it suits them, groups may combine politics and crime, using some of one and some of the other. The combination of all three, the interface of the state with politics and crime, is called corruption.
Politics and crime grow from the same impulse, namely, the drive to quickly obtain money and power. Neither are wedded to violence – it’s inefficient and costly – pushed or threatened, both quickly turn violent. Politics and crime know and understand each other quite well, forming an almost symbiotic relationship. Politics needs money to win elections and influence and pays little attention to the sources of this money (e.g., Japanese Liberal Democratic politicians and yakuza gangsters). And crime needs the protection of politics to continue its enterprises (e.g., the inability of Russian security police to solve a single assassination).
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HERE IS YOUR ANSWER.
olitics, the means of influencing the state and crime the means of avoiding the state.
The three have always been related. Those with great influence on the state may not need much crime; they get their way chiefly through politics. Those with no influence are naturally drawn to state avoidance options. For some crime may be a rational economic choice. When it suits them, groups may combine politics and crime, using some of one and some of the other. The combination of all three, the interface of the state with politics and crime, is called corruption.
Politics and crime grow from the same impulse, namely, the drive to quickly obtain money and power. Neither are wedded to violence – it’s inefficient and costly – pushed or threatened, both quickly turn violent. Politics and crime know and understand each other quite well, forming an almost symbiotic relationship. Politics needs money to win elections and influence and pays little attention to the sources of this money (e.g., Japanese Liberal Democratic politicians and yakuza gangsters). And crime needs the protection of politics to continue its enterprises (e.g., the inability of Russian security police to solve a single assassination).
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