Macro crime

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Macrocrime is a collective term in critical criminology for large forms of crime that are relatively immune to criminal sanctions . In contrast to everyday crime, it is not the deviance of the perpetrators that is characteristic of macrocrime , but their conformity . Examples of macro- criminal activity are genocide , war crimes and nuclear mass destruction.

The term macro-crime was coined by Herbert Jäger , who complained that criminology was blind to the mass killing, mistreatment and displacement of people. This can be explained by the legal orientation of the discipline. In order to be able to better understand macro-crime , criminology must be decoupled from state criminal law . A look at different forms of major crimes shows that there are many conditions to make mass murders possible without feeling guilty. Detecting and analyzing such conditions is the main task of a criminology of macro-crime .

A clear distinction between the terms macro crime , crime of the powerful , government crime and repression crime is hardly possible, but according to Michael Jasch it is not necessary either. In criminological discourse, one can work with the fact that the terms overlap and complement one another. The concept of the criminality of the mighty emphasizes the structural characteristics of power , while that of macrocrime that of the collective from which the crime is committed.

literature

  • Herbert Jäger : Macrocrime. Studies on the criminology of collective violence . Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt am Main 1989, ISBN 978-3-518-28445-2 .
  • Carolin Reese: Major Crimes and Criminological Concepts. An attempt at theoretical integration , Kölner Schriften zur Kriminologie und Kriminalpolitik, Volume 7, Lit Verlag, Münster 2004, ISBN 978-3-8258-7892-4 , Chapter Macrocriminality , pp. 121-183.
  • Michael Jasch: Jäger, Herbert (1989): Macro criminality. Studies on the criminology of collective violence, Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp . In: Christian Schlepper, Jan Wehrheim (ed.), Key works in critical criminology . Beltz Juventa, Weinheim / Basel 2017, ISBN 978-3-7799-3484-4 , pp. 260–270.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Carolin Reese: Major crimes and criminological concepts. An attempt at theoretical integration , Lit Verlag, Münster 2004, chapter macrocriminality , pp. 121–183, here p. 123.
  2. ^ Michael Jasch: Jäger, Herbert (1989): Makrokriminalität. Studies on the criminology of collective violence, Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp . In: Christian Schlepper, Jan Wehrheim (ed.), Key works in critical criminology . Beltz Juventa, Weinheim / Basel 2017, pp. 260–270, here p. 261.
  3. ^ Michael Jasch: Jäger, Herbert (1989): Makrokriminalität. Studies on the criminology of collective violence, Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp . In: Christian Schlepper, Jan Wehrheim (ed.), Key works in critical criminology . Beltz Juventa, Weinheim / Basel 2017, pp. 260–270, here p. 266.
  4. ^ Michael Jasch: Jäger, Herbert (1989): Makrokriminalität. Studies on the criminology of collective violence, Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp . In: Christian Schlepper, Jan Wehrheim (ed.), Key works in critical criminology . Beltz Juventa, Weinheim / Basel 2017, pp. 260–270, here p. 268.