Non-lethal Weapons as Legitimising Forces?

Brian Rappert is a Research Fellow in the School of Sociology and Social Policy at the University of Nottingham. He is author of numerous reports and articles on the assessments of risky technology.

' ... excellent book ...' - Survival

• Part 1 Claims and expectations: what's in a name?; tools of the trade; threats and promises. Part 2 Technologies, contexts and controls: weapons of minimal harm? assessing effects; on to the streets - examining major deployments of non-lethals; controlling evaluations - the prospects for prohibitions. Part 3 Case studies: CS sprays in Britain; gauging electroshock weapons; humanitarian interventions, humanitarian tools?. Conclusions and recommendations.