States of Violence and the Civilising Process
On Criminology and State Crime
This book offers a distinctive and novel approach to state-sponsored violence, one of the major problems facing humanity in the previous and now the twenty-first century. It addresses the question: how is it possible that large numbers of ordinary men and women are able to do the killing, torturing and violence that defines crimes against humanity? In his striking analysis, Rob Watts shows how and why states, of all political persuasions, engage in crimes against humanity, including: genocide, homicide, torture, kidnapping, illegal surveillance and detention.This book advances a new interpretive frame. It argues against the 'civilizing proces…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-1-137-49940-0
- EAN: 9781137499400
- Produktnummer: 19629370
- Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2016
- Seitenangabe: 413 S.
- Masse: H21.6 cm x B15.3 cm x D2.7 cm 663 g
- Auflage: 1st ed. 2016
- Abbildungen: Bibliographie
- Gewicht: 663
Über den Autor
Rob Watts is Professorof Social Policy at RMIT University, Australia. His previous publicationsinclude The Foundations of the National Welfare State (1987), ArguingAbout the Australian Welfare State (1992), Discovering Risk (2006), TalkingPolicy: Australian Social Policy (2007) and InternationalCriminology: A Critical Introduction (2009).
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