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In Starvation as a Weapon Simone Hutter explores, within the framework of international law, the legality of using deliberate starvation as a means to an end. A close look at modern famine shows that, in many cases, food scarcity is not the product of coincidence, but a side effect or result of a deliberate strategy. Starvation is an efficient instrument when used to exert pressure and power, in times of war and peace. Simone Hutter demonstrates how international human rights law and international humanitarian law prevent deliberate starvation as a means of achieving political goals. She focuses on highly divisive and under-discussed instances in which states deploy deliberate starvation domestically, id est within the state’s own national territory.

Right to food --- Starvation --- State crimes --- Right to food. --- Starvation. --- State crimes. --- Food, Right to --- Human rights --- Crimes committed by states --- State-sponsored crimes --- Crime --- Fasting --- Hunger --- Malnutrition

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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).

Social sciences. --- Crime --- Social Sciences. --- Crime and Society. --- Sociological aspects. --- State crimes --- Social aspects. --- Crimes committed by states --- State-sponsored crimes --- Crime—Sociological aspects.

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SCJ is administered by the International State Crime Initiative (ISCI); a multidisciplinary, cross institutional and international initiative focused on illicit practices of States. Topics may include genocide, torture, mass killings, war crimes and much more.

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The book examines corruption control in post-reform China. Contrary to the normal perception that corruption is a type of behavior that violates the law, the author seeks to approach the issue from a social censure perspective, where corruption is regarded as a form of social censure intended to maintain the hegemony of the ruling bloc. Such an approach integrates societal structure, political goals, and agency into a single framework to explain dynamics in corruption control. With both qualitative data from officials in power and officials in jail and quantitative data from university students, the book explores how the censure on corruption was created and has been applied from 1978 to the present. Though primarily intended for academics, the book is also accessible for general audiences, especially given its intriguing perspective and use of firsthand data on corruption that cannot be found anywhere else.

Political corruption --- China --- Politics and government --- Social sciences-Philosophy. --- Social justice. --- Political Crimes. --- Social Theory. --- Social Justice, Equality and Human Rights. --- State Crimes. --- Equality --- Justice --- Social sciences—Philosophy. --- Human rights. --- Basic rights --- Civil rights (International law) --- Human rights --- Rights, Human --- Rights of man --- Human security --- Transitional justice --- Truth commissions --- Law and legislation

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Political corruption --- Political persecution --- State-sponsored terrorism --- Genocide --- War crimes --- Corruption (Politique) --- Répression politique --- Terrorisme d'Etat --- Génocide --- Crimes de guerre --- #SBIB:051.IO --- #SBIB:35H52 --- Ethiek van bestuur en beleid --- State crimes --- Criminology, Penology & Juvenile Delinquency --- Political Institutions & Public Administration - General --- Social Welfare & Social Work --- Government - General --- Social Sciences --- Law, Politics & Government --- Genocide. --- Political corruption. --- Political persecution. --- State crimes. --- State-sponsored terrorism. --- War crimes. --- Répression politique --- Génocide --- Cleansing, Ethnic --- Ethnic cleansing --- Ethnic purification --- Ethnocide --- Purification, Ethnic --- Government violence --- Governmental violence --- State-sponsored violence --- State terrorism --- Violence, Governmental --- Violence, State-sponsored --- Crimes committed by states --- State-sponsored crimes --- Political repression --- Repression, Political --- Boss rule --- Corruption (in politics) --- Graft in politics --- Malversation --- Political scandals --- Politics, Practical --- Corrupt practices --- Crime --- Political atrocities --- Terrorism --- Persecution --- Civil rights --- Corruption --- Misconduct in office