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States of Violence and the Civilising Process - On Criminology and State Crime (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2016)
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States of Violence and the Civilising Process - On Criminology and State Crime (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2016)
Series: Critical Criminological Perspectives
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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 process' model, showing how both states and social
sciences like sociology and criminology have been complicit in
splitting 'the social' from 'the ethical' while accepting too
complacently that modern states are the exemplars of morality and
rationality. The book makes the case that it is possible to bring
together in the one interpretative frame, our understanding of
social action involving personal motivation and ethical
responsibility and patterns of collective social action operating
in terms of the agencies of 'the State'. Rob Watts identifies and
charts the pathways of action and 'practical' (i.e. 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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