Crime in Contemporary Society - Human Rights Violations | A-Level Sociology

welcome to this tor to you sociology topic video looking at crime in contemporary Society focusing on human rights violations as outlined in our previous videos on state crimes many sociologists look to take a Zoological approach to the issue of State Crime looking at the harm that states inflict upon their citizens rather than whether or not this

is against the law of the land because the state makes the law it is possible for them to legitimize that is make legal their actions as a consequence many sociologists looked to violations of human rights as an alternative way of measuring the behavior of a state towards its citizens Herman and Julia schwendinger

argued in the 1970s that State Crime should be defined by the violation of an individual's basic human rights are set out by the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights which was written in the aftermath of World War II the these included both the natural rights those rights ascribed by birth and an individual civil rights those

that were agreed as a member of society the un's Declaration of Human Rights outlines over the course of 30 articles the basic human rights that individuals are entitled to and this has been signed by many countries that promis to uphold these basic rights within the Declaration of Human Rights agreements on the treat treatment

of all peoples with equality and dignity are made such as religion speech ability to own property and to pursue their aspirations without prejudice there are also more specific rights that deal with the conduct of States against individuals including the agreement of not using torture Freedom From Slavery freedom from Exile and imprisonment without