“Dost thou think, because thou art virtuous, there shall be no more cakes and ale?”

About Penny Green

Penny Green is Professor of Law and Globalisation at Queen Mary University of London. She is the founder and Co-director of the International State Crime Initiative. She has authored many books and articles including ‘State Crime: Governments, Violence and Corruption (with Tony Ward).

Articles by Penny Green

This week’s front page editor

Francesc Badia i Dalmases is Editor and Director of democraciaAbierta.

European integration

Six countries. Six different paths to EU integration.

No to TTIP

The secretive EU-US trade deal explained

State crime, civil society and resistance: lessons from Tunisia

Penny Green 15 December 2014

What the state proclaims as legality can in reality be crime on a grand scale. What it defines as crime may instead be resistance to state crime. Only organised civil society can expose these truths.

Introducing: State crime and resistance

Penny Green, Thomas MacManus, Fatima Kanji, Tony Ward, Kristian Lasslett, and Alicia de la Cour Venning 12 December 2014

This week's theme concentrates not only on state crime but on the extraordinary variety of courageous civil society resistance generated by state violence and corruption.

State crime in Turkey: the Roboski Massacre

Penny Green and Saniye Karakas 12 May 2014

At 21.39 on December 28, 2011, disaster struck and in an instant the village lost its youth when they became victim to the Turkish government’s ‘war on terror’.