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Informationen zum Autor Vincenzo Ruggiero is professor of sociology at Middlesex University in London and the University of Pisa in Italy. He is also co-editor of Forum on Crime and Society, published by the United Nations. His numerous previous books include Crime in Literature (2003), Crime and Markets (2000), Movements in the City (2001), Organised and Corporate Crime in Europe (1996) and Eurodrugs (1995). Klappentext Understanding Political Violence introduces political violence in the context of sociological and criminological debates. The author distinguishes between political violence from below, for example collective violence, insurgency, armed struggle and terrorism; and political violence from above, which includes indiscriminate repression, institutional and state violence, torture and war. Vincenzo Ruggiero discusses and critiques the contribution of criminological theory to understanding political violence. He draws on stimulating case studies to illustrate the theory, including interviews with former members of the Red Army Faction in Germany and the Brigate Rosse in Italy. The concluding chapter examines the recent development of a criminology of war and calls for a general ceasefire and the criminalisation of war, the most extreme form of institutional violence. This is essential reading for students and researchers in criminology, political studies, sociology, and war and conflict studies. Zusammenfassung Introduces political violence in the context of sociological and criminological debates. This book distinguishes between political violence from below! and political violence from above. It discusses and critiques the contribution of criminological theory to understanding political violence. It examines the development of a criminology of war. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Introduction 2. State savagery and sedition 3. Philanthropic murderers and regicides 4. Morbid effervescence 5. Politicians, gangsters and violent hostility 6. Pre-political violence and organised hostility 7. Revolutionary suicide 8. The blind primacy of action 9. Attacking the heart of the state 10. Cloning the enemy 11. Criminology as ceasefire 12. References ...
