Some Studies on a Taboo Topic: Academic Crimes and Dictatorship NoMan NoWhere December 15, 2013 Some Studies on a Taboo Topic: Academic Crimes and Dictatorship By NoMan NoWhere s.kashef i @hotmail.com PHD Student at Osgoode Hall Law School, Toronto (2009-2016) PhD in Law from Panthéon-Sorbonne, Paris (2001-2005) Master's in Criminal Law and Criminal Policy in Europe from Panthéon-Sorbonne, Paris (2000-2001) Master's in Criminal Law and Criminology from the University of Tehran (1997-2000) LLB from Azad University of Mashhad (1992-1996) To All Victims of Academic Crimes and Dictatorship Abstract Despite the fact that the universities, colleges, research centers, awards, professorships, fellowships, scholarships, bursaries, honorary degrees, and publishers are submerged in criminality and corruption, there are few studies on academic criminality. If you just google "academic crimes", you would f ind very few researches. Unlike street crimes, academic crimes are extremely unknown, misunderstood, misinterpreted, or misevaluated, even in the prestigiously worshiped universities (e.g., the Universities of Oxford and Princeton), because some gangs of scholastic Masters have monopolized and exploited the psychological and material capitals of academia. Indeed, their scholastic, political, economic, and social power and hegemony rely on secrecy, despotism, manipulation, and crimes, strengthened by other white-collar criminals, i.e. the Statesmen/women and economic elites as well. We cannot actually f ind many researches about the academic harmful ef fects on humanity and nature, since the interests of politicians, economic elites, and academic white-collar criminals require concealing or manipulating the truth as well as legitimizing all forms of State violence and corruption, including scholastic corruption. Fortunately, the academicians are funnily talking about "academic honesty", "academic integrity", and "critical thought" in spite of their existential delinquency and dirty mind causing or aggravating human and nonhuman misery and exploitation! This paper nonetheless struggles to show some aspects and cases of academic scoundrels, scholastic criminality, corruption, and dictatorship. 1
Some Studies on a Taboo Topic: Academic Crimes and Dictatorship NoMan NoWhere Keywords: academic crimes and corruption, academic white-collar criminals, scholastic gangsters, dictatorship of academia Down with Academic Crimes, Gangsters, and Dictators! When it comes to a taboo, I think particularly about one of the most hidden phenomena, that is to say corruption in the academic environment. Thanks to academic fame and capital, the academicians have a very good reason to shut up about corruption in their kingdom. They have natural and traditional right to analyze, criticize, and solve all problems concerning ecosystem and human existence in this world (human rights, freedom, poverty, sexuality, religion, family, crime, and so on) as well as in other worlds (such as God, paradise, and hell), except their own crimes (nepotism, blackmail, fraud, bribery, discrimination, racism, sexism, sexual harassment, and giving degrees to dictators and their clans, for example) in their f i efs (i.e. criminality in the universities). As a matter of fact, we know almost nothing either about the acceptance and the promotion in the universities or about the governance of the academic books, journals and reviews claiming to use fabulous "peer review". The same goes for the seminars,