When States Kill

Author : Cecilia Menjívar,Néstor Rodríguez
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 389 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2009-07-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9780292778504

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When States Kill by Cecilia Menjívar,Néstor Rodríguez Pdf

Since the early twentieth century, technological transfers from the United States to Latin American countries have involved technologies of violence for social control. As the chapters in this book illustrate, these technological transfers have taken various forms, including the training of Latin American military personnel in surveillance and torture and the provision of political and logistic support for campaigns of state terror. The human cost for Latin America has been enormous—thousands of Latin Americans have been murdered, disappeared, or tortured, and whole communities have been terrorized into silence. Organized by region, the essays in this book address the topic of state-sponsored terrorism in a variety of ways. Most take the perspective that state-directed political violence is a modern development of a regional political structure in which U.S. political interests weigh heavily. Others acknowledge that Latin American states enthusiastically received U.S. support for their campaigns of terror. A few see local culture and history as key factors in the implementation of state campaigns of political violence. Together, all the essays exemplify how technologies of terror have been transferred among various Latin American countries, with particular attention to the role that the United States, as a "strong" state, has played in such transfers.

Author : W. John Green
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2015-04-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9781438456652

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A History of Political Murder in Latin America by W. John Green Pdf

A sweeping study of political murder in Latin America. This expansive history depicts Latin America’s pan-regional culture of political murder. Unlike typical studies of the region, which often focus on the issues or trends of individual countries, this work focuses thematically on the nature of political murder itself, comparing and contrasting its uses and practices throughout the region. W. John Green examines the entire system of political murder: the methods and justifications the perpetrators employ, the victims, and the consequences for Latin American societies. Green demonstrates that elite and state actors have been responsible for most political murders, assassinating the leaders of popular movements and other messengers of change. Latin American elites have also often targeted the potential audience for these messages through the region’s various “dirty wars.” In spite of regional differences, elites across the region have displayed considerable uniformity in justifying their use of murder, imagining themselves in a class war with democratic forces. While the United States has often been complicit in such violence, Green notes that this has not been universally true, with US support waxing and waning. A detailed appendix, exploring political murder country by country, provides an additional resource for readers. W. John Green is the Editor and Director of the Latin American News Digest and the author of Gaitanismo, Left Liberalism, and Popular Mobilization in Colombia.

Author : Daniel Klaidman
Publisher : HMH
Page : 309 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2012-06-05
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780547547787

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Kill or Capture by Daniel Klaidman Pdf

“Divulge[s] the details of top-level deliberations—details that were almost certainly known only to the administration’s inner circle” (The Wall Street Journal). When he was elected in 2008, Barack Obama had vowed to close Guantánamo, put an end to coercive interrogation and military tribunals, and restore American principles of justice. Yet by the end of his first term he had backtracked on each of these promises, ramping up the secret war of drone strikes and covert operations. Behind the scenes, wrenching debates between hawks and doves—those who would kill versus those who would capture—repeatedly tested the very core of the president’s identity, leading many to wonder whether he was at heart an idealist or a ruthless pragmatist. Digging deep into this period of recent history, investigative reporter Daniel Klaidman spoke to dozens of sources to piece together a riveting Washington story packed with revelations. As the president’s inner circle debated secret programs, new legal frontiers, and the disjuncture between principles and down-and-dirty politics, Obama vacillated, sometimes lashed out, and spoke in lofty tones while approving a mounting toll of assassinations and kinetic-war operations. Klaidman’s fly-on-the-wall reporting reveals who had his ear, how key national security decisions are really made, and whether or not President Obama lived up to the promise of candidate Obama. “Fascinating . . . Lays bare the human dimension of the wrenching national security decisions that have to be made.” —Tina Brown, NPR “An important book.” —Steve Coll, The New Yorker

Author : Franklin E. Zimring
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2017-02-20
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780674972186

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When Police Kill by Franklin E. Zimring Pdf

Franklin Zimring compiles data from federal records, crowdsourced research, and investigative journalism to provide a comprehensive, fact-based picture of how, when, where, and why police use deadly force. He offers prescriptions for how federal, state, and local governments could reduce killings at minimum cost without risking officers’ lives.

Author : Austin Sarat
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 351 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2018-06-05
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780691188669

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When the State Kills by Austin Sarat Pdf

Is capital punishment just? Does it deter people from murder? What is the risk that we will execute innocent people? These are the usual questions at the heart of the increasingly heated debate about capital punishment in America. In this bold and impassioned book, Austin Sarat seeks to change the terms of that debate. Capital punishment must be stopped, Sarat argues, because it undermines our democratic society. Sarat unflinchingly exposes us to the realities of state killing. He examines its foundations in ideas about revenge and retribution. He takes us inside the courtroom of a capital trial, interviews jurors and lawyers who make decisions about life and death, and assesses the arguments swirling around Timothy McVeigh and his trial for the bombing in Oklahoma City. Aided by a series of unsettling color photographs, he traces Americans' evolving quest for new methods of execution, and explores the place of capital punishment in popular culture by examining such films as Dead Man Walking, The Last Dance, and The Green Mile. Sarat argues that state executions, once used by monarchs as symbolic displays of power, gained acceptance among Americans as a sign of the people's sovereignty. Yet today when the state kills, it does so in a bureaucratic procedure hidden from view and for which no one in particular takes responsibility. He uncovers the forces that sustain America's killing culture, including overheated political rhetoric, racial prejudice, and the desire for a world without moral ambiguity. Capital punishment, Sarat shows, ultimately leaves Americans more divided, hostile, indifferent to life's complexities, and much further from solving the nation's ills. In short, it leaves us with an impoverished democracy. The book's powerful and sobering conclusions point to a new abolitionist politics, in which capital punishment should be banned not only on ethical grounds but also for what it does to Americans and what we cherish.

Author : Shenila Khoja-Moolji
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2021-06-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780520974395

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Sovereign Attachments by Shenila Khoja-Moolji Pdf

Sovereign Attachments rethinks sovereignty by moving it out of the exclusive domain of geopolitics and legality and into cultural, religious, and gender studies. Through a close reading of a stunning array of cultural texts produced by the Pakistani state and the Pakistan-based Taliban, Shenila Khoja-Moolji theorizes sovereignty as an ongoing attachment that is negotiated in public culture. Both the state and the Taliban recruit publics into relationships of trust, protection, and fraternity by summoning models of Islamic masculinity, mobilizing kinship metaphors, and marshalling affect. In particular, masculinity and Muslimness emerge as salient performances through which sovereign attachments are harnessed. The book shifts the discussion of sovereignty away from questions about absolute dominance to ones about shared repertoires, entanglements, and co-constitution.

Author : Betty L. Alt,Sandra K. Wells
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Page : 162 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2010-04-16
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781442200791

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When Caregivers Kill by Betty L. Alt,Sandra K. Wells Pdf

Each year in the U.S. hundreds of children under the age of ten are killed by parents, relatives, or other caregivers. In recent years, families have become less dependent on kinship and neighborhood relationships, so they may become nearly invisible to those who might otherwise be involved in their activities. Because of this isolation, danger to children often does not become visible to the public until the child is injured or, worse, dead. This book offers an overview of the various caregivers involved in child homicide. It covers murders committed by mothers, fathers, babysitters, and others and examines the common circumstances that lead to such violence. Using cases throughout, the authors reveal the extent and nature of child homicide in chilling detail. Readers will come away from the book with a greater understanding of the problem_the triggers that lead to child homicide, the motives and means, what killers have in common, and how to prevent and address child homicide.

Author : Michael L. Yergin
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 357 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2002-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780595216567

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Kill Talk by Michael L. Yergin Pdf

Mark Goodwin has everything going for him. As a handsome real estate mogul he is well liked, well connected, and respected by all. Things are about to change dramatically for him in this non-stop rollercoaster ride called KILL TALK.Based on actual events, KILL TALK spans the Mobs plans to take over the prison system in the United States. When Mark's beautiful bride of only ten days is kidnapped he enters a world of murder and intrigue where life is cheap and the stakes are high. Carole Goodwin will be murdered within 24 hours unless Janet can save her, but what is Janet's connection to Carole? Janet is a high-priced, exotic, hooker owned by the Mob. As beautiful as she is, she is also a drug addict and girlfriend to Mob hitman, Marty Serachi. Her bid for freedom puts the lives of Carole and Mark in danger and plummets Mark into a catalyst of events that carries the reader into the dark underworld of Mob violence.You won't be able to put this fast-paced thriller down, as Mark races against the clock to stop his world from collapsing and his loved ones from dying. We are catapulted along with him as he and his associates unknowingly implicate themselves with Mob connections from Rhode Island to Miami, and infinitely involve the government in one of the biggest and least known scandals of the 21st century.

Author : Joshua A. Perper,Stephen J. Cina
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2010-06-14
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781441913692

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When Doctors Kill by Joshua A. Perper,Stephen J. Cina Pdf

It would come as no surprise that many readers may be shocked and intrigued by the title of our book. Some (especially our medical colleagues) may wonder why it is even worthwhile to raise the issue of killing by doctors. Killing is clearly an- thetical to the Art and Science of Medicine, which is geared toward easing pain and suffering and to saving lives rather than smothering them. Doctors should be a source of comfort rather than a cause for alarm. Nevertheless, although they often don’t want to admit it, doctors are people too. Physicians have the same genetic library of both endearing qualities and character defects as the rest of us but their vocation places them in a position to intimately interject themselves into the lives of other people. In most cases, fortunately, the positive traits are dominant and doctors do more good than harm. While physicists and mathematicians paved the road to the stars and deciphered the mysteries of the atom, they simultaneously unleashed destructive powers that may one day bring about the annihilation of our planet. Concurrently, doctors and allied scientists have delved into the deep secrets of the body and mind, mastering the anatomy and physiology of the human body, even mapping the very molecules that make us who we are. But make no mistake, a person is not simply an elegant b- logical machine to be marveled at then dissected.

Author : Maria Armoudian
Publisher : Prometheus Books
Page : 335 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2011-08-23
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781616143886

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Kill the Messenger by Maria Armoudian Pdf

This wide-ranging, insightful book will make readers keenly aware of the media’s power, while underscoring the role that we all play in fostering a media climate that cultivates a greater sense of humanity, cooperation, and fulfillment of human potential. What role do the media have in creating the conditions for atrocities such as occurred in Rwanda? Conversely, can the media be used to preserve democracy and safeguard the human rights of all citizens in a diverse society? How will the media, now global in scope, affect the fate of the planet itself? The author explores these intriguing questions and more in this in-depth examination of the media’s power to either help or harm. She begins by documenting how the media were used to spread a contagion of hate in three deadly conflicts: Rwanda, Nazi Germany, and the former Yugoslavia. She then turns to areas of the world where the media acted constructively—by aiding the peace process in Northern Ireland, rebuilding democracy in Chile, bridging ethnic divides in South Africa, improving the lot of women in Senegal, and boosting transparency and democratization in Mexico and Taiwan. Finally, she explains how the media interact with psychological and cultural forces to impact perceptions, fears, peer-pressure, "groupthink," and the creation of heroes and villains.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 722 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1869
Category : Law reports, digests, etc
ISBN : NYPL:33433007995891

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United States Digest by Anonim Pdf

Author : Ohio
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1474 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1896
Category : Law
ISBN : UOM:35112104887288

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The Revised Statutes of the State of Ohio by Ohio Pdf

Author : Abraham Clark Freeman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1174 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1896
Category : Law reports, digests, etc
ISBN : PSU:000033921211

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The American State Reports by Abraham Clark Freeman Pdf

Author : Angela Browne
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 175 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2008-06-30
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781439118658

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When Battered Women Kill by Angela Browne Pdf

A compassionate look at 42 battered women who felt "locked in with danger and so desperate that they killed a man they loved"; scholarly and compelling.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1212 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1897
Category : Law reports, digests, etc
ISBN : UCAL:B3500697

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Atlantic Reporter by Anonim Pdf