Visions of Political Violence

ISBN-13: 9780367261016 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 242 str.

Vincenzo Ruggiero

Opis

This book offers a typology of different forms of political violence. From systemic and institutional violence, to the behaviour of crowds, to armed conflict and terrorism, a range of perspectives from criminology, social theory, political science and literary criticism are drawn upon to consider how these forms of violence are linked.

Spis treści

1. Introduction 2. Systemic violence 3. Institutional violence 4. Crowds and group violence 5. Conspiracy and the contemplation of crime 6. Armed struggle and civil war 7. Random killing and martyrdom 8. Chaotic murder 9. Belligerence as sexual violence 10. Numinous terror 11. Violence and social change 12. Conclusion

O autorze

Vincenzo Ruggiero is Professor of Sociology at Middlesex University. He has worked on penal systems, fiction and crime, illegal markets, social movements and the crimes of the powerful. He has conducted research for the ESRC, the European Commission and the United Nations. Among his recent sole-authored books are Penal Abolitionism (2010), The Crimes of the Economy (2013), Power and Crime (2015) and Dirty Money (2017). In 2016 he was granted the Lifetime Achievement Award by the American Society of Criminology, Division on Critical Criminology.