Shooting to kill [electronic resource] : socio-legal perspectives on the use of lethal force / edited by Simon Bronitt, Miriam Gani and Saskia Hufnagel.

Contributor(s): Bronitt, Simon | Gani, Miriam | Hufnagel, Saskia | ProQuest (Firm)Material type: TextTextSeries: Onati international series in law and societyPublication details: Oxford ; Portland, Or. : Hart Pub., 2012Description: xvii, 324 pISBN: 9781782250425 (electronic bk.)Other title: Socio-legal perspectives on the use of lethal forceSubject(s): Police shootings -- Law and legislation | Police shootings -- Moral and ethical aspects | Police shootings -- Political aspectsGenre/Form: Electronic books.DDC classification: 363.232 LOC classification: K3465 | .S56 2012Online resources: Click to View
Contents:
Pt. I. Theoretical and ethical perspectives -- The rule of law, legal positivism and states of emergency / Tom Campbell -- Civil emergencies and the claims of innocence / John Kleinig and Tziporah Kasachkoff -- The right of life between absolute and proportional protection / Kai Moller -- Can states commit crimes? / Andrew Vincent -- Law, death and denial in the 'Global War on Terror' / Russell Hogg -- pt. II. Legal frameworks for shooting to kill -- Shooting to kill innocents : necessity, self-defence and duress in the Commonwealth criminal code / Ian Leader-Elliott -- Regulating reasonable force : policing in the shadows of the law / Simon Bronitt and Miriam Gani -- When shooting to kill is authorised by the state : a feminist analysis / Kylie Weston-Scheuber -- Fundamental rights and findamental difference : comparing the right to human dignity and criminal liability in Germany and Australia / Saskia Hufnagel -- pt. III. Shooting to kill in context : case studies -- The fatal police shooting of Jean Charles de Menezes : is anyone responsible? / Ian Gordon and Seumas MIller -- The use of lethal force in counter-piracy operations offi Somalia / Douglas Guilfoyle and Andrew Murdoch -- Unlawful killing with combat drones : a case study of Pakistan, 2004-2009 / Mary Ellen O'Connell -- Corporations that kill : prosecuting Blackwater / David Kinley and Odette Murray.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Pt. I. Theoretical and ethical perspectives -- The rule of law, legal positivism and states of emergency / Tom Campbell -- Civil emergencies and the claims of innocence / John Kleinig and Tziporah Kasachkoff -- The right of life between absolute and proportional protection / Kai Moller -- Can states commit crimes? / Andrew Vincent -- Law, death and denial in the 'Global War on Terror' / Russell Hogg -- pt. II. Legal frameworks for shooting to kill -- Shooting to kill innocents : necessity, self-defence and duress in the Commonwealth criminal code / Ian Leader-Elliott -- Regulating reasonable force : policing in the shadows of the law / Simon Bronitt and Miriam Gani -- When shooting to kill is authorised by the state : a feminist analysis / Kylie Weston-Scheuber -- Fundamental rights and findamental difference : comparing the right to human dignity and criminal liability in Germany and Australia / Saskia Hufnagel -- pt. III. Shooting to kill in context : case studies -- The fatal police shooting of Jean Charles de Menezes : is anyone responsible? / Ian Gordon and Seumas MIller -- The use of lethal force in counter-piracy operations offi Somalia / Douglas Guilfoyle and Andrew Murdoch -- Unlawful killing with combat drones : a case study of Pakistan, 2004-2009 / Mary Ellen O'Connell -- Corporations that kill : prosecuting Blackwater / David Kinley and Odette Murray.

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