Crimes of the Powerful – The New NATO System of Social Control

• In Event: Poster Session 1

Abstract

“Crimes of the Powerful – The new NATO system of social control and the criminality and corruption of those that implement it”
Dr. Ioanna Charalampous
The Hellenic Open University
charalampous.ioanna@ac.eap.gr
0030 694 2866 044
Area XV Poster Session

This research focuses on the investigation of the corruption of powerful offenders under a critical criminological perspective. Criminological research has looked into the implementation of programs of experimentation and control in the past (MK Ultra, Project Monarch). Similar projects are being implemented within all Nato countries today upgrading NATOs position into current geopolitics. The study consists of mixed methodologies of document analyses, qualitative interviewing and court case analyses. The findings shed light into the aim of criminality which is to monitor and manipulate the population and neutralise the claim for justice. NATOs attempts for control have started as early as the 1960s. Within this framework, NATO’s powerful actors take advantage of the power of new technologies and utilize it to victimize the population for their profit. The most common types of victimization and criminality are the mental, emotional, sexual and physical abuse of women and children, widespread pedophilia, stalking, hacking, stealing, mind and body manipulation and destruction, repeated poisoning and finally murder.

Author

• Ioanna Charalampous, The Hellenic Open University