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States of violence and the civilising process = on criminology and state crime /

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	States of violence and the civilising process/ by Rob Watts.
Reminder of title:	on criminology and state crime /
Author:	Watts, Rob.
Published:	London :Palgrave Macmillan UK : : 2016.,
Description:	xii, 413 p. :digital ; : 21 cm.;
Contained By:	Springer eBooks
Subject:	State crimes - Social aspects. -
Online resource:	http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-49941-7
ISBN:	9781137499417

States of violence and the civilising process = on criminology and state crime /
Watts, Rob.

States of violence and the civilising processon criminology and state crime /[electronic resource] :by Rob Watts. - London :Palgrave Macmillan UK :2016. - xii, 413 p. :digital ;21 cm. - Critical criminological perspectives. - Critical criminological perspectives..

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.

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. Rob Watts is Professor of Social Policy at RMIT University, Australia. His previous publications include The Foundations of the National Welfare State (1987), Arguing About the Australian Welfare State (1992), Discovering Risk (2006), Talking Policy: Australian Social Policy (2007) and International Criminology: A Critical Introduction (2009)

ISBN: 9781137499417

Standard No.: 10.1057/978-1-137-49941-7doiSubjects--Topical Terms:

1109692
State crimes
--Social aspects.

LC Class. No.: HV6251.6 / .W38 2016

Dewey Class. No.: 362.88

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