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What is States of Violence : War, Capital Punishment, and Letting Die about?

This book brings together scholarship on three different forms of state violence, examining each for what it can tell us about the conditions under which states use violence and the significance of violence to our understanding of states. This book calls into question the legitimacy of state uses of violence and mounts a sustained effort at interpretation, sense making, and critique. It suggests that condemning the state's decisions to use lethal force is not a simple matter of abolishing the death penalty or – to take another exemplary example of the killing state – demanding that the state engage only in just (publicly declared and justified) wars, pointing out that even such overt instances of lethal force are more elusive as targets of critique than one might think. Indeed, altering such decisions may do little to change the essential relationship of the state to violence.

Author

Austin Sarat; Jennifer Louise Culbert

Publisher

Cambridge ; New York: Cambridge University Press

Published

2009

Language

EN

ISBN

9780521699761

Subjects

Science, Sociology, Social Science