Part VI Political Crime A. Political crime seldom appears in crim texts. In this outline of a postmodern criminology, I would like to define and list the forms of political crime. National Chauvinism 4. I did not mention inequality as do most radical crimin- ologists. C. Forms of power.
Social power is essential to all social life.
And power differentials are essential to all socialization and all 'necessary' repression. When social power is thus used, political crime takes substantive form. Even without specific social relationships, we can shape the behavior of unknown others by recourse to moral power. I define moral power as that response to the moral structure to which people are socialized. Usually moral systems have a religious grounding.