States of Violence and the Civilising Process

On Criminology and State Crime

AvRob Watts

Inbunden, Engelska, 2016

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ethical) judgements which the perpetrators of these crimes against humanity constructed for themselves to make sense of what they were doing. At once challenging and highly accessible, the book reveals the policy-making processes that produce state crime as well as showing how ordinary people do the state’s dirty work.

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Utgivningsdatum:2016-06-17
Mått:148 x 210 x 32 mm
Vikt:666 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Critical Criminological Perspectives
Antal sidor:413
Upplaga:16001
Förlag:Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN:9781137499400

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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).

Innehållsförteckning

Introduction.- Chapter 1. Criminology and Crimes of the State.- Chapter 2. Thinking About Civilization, Violence and the State.- Chapter 3. Thinking the Unthinkable: The State and Crimes of the State.- Chapter 4. Stalin and Crimes of the State: The Soviet Terror, 1936-37.- Chapter 5. 'The Day the Police Came': Welfare Policy as State Crime.- Chapter 6. The United States of Exception: Crimes Of The State And The War On Terror, 2001-2015.- Chapter 7. Criminology, Society and the Ethical.- Chapter 8. Making Sense of Wickedness.- Chapter 9. Why Ordinary People Do Bad Things for the State.- Conclusion.