Defenders of Freedom or Perpetrators and Facilitators of Crimes? Beyond Progressive Retreatism in the Trump Era

ABSTRACT

Heavily influenced by broad definitions of crime developed by a few pioneering critical criminologists, the main objective of this article is to provide evidence showing that the current Trump administration is a regime that commits crimes of the powerful and facilitates some types of interpersonal violence in private places. Special attention is devoted to direct and in-direct state-perpetrated violent crimes against women.

KEYWORDS:

• Trump
• state crime
• critical criminology
• reproductive rights
• violence against women

Acknowledgments

I would like to thank Francis T. Cullen, Elliott Currie, Joseph F. Donnermeyer, and Peter Kraska for their comments and support.

Disclosure statement

No potential conflict of interest was reported by the authors.