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Violence --- Paramilitary forces --- Death squads --- Terrorism
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Death squads. --- State, The. --- Vigilance committees. --- Vigilantes.
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Death squads --- 858.1 Politiek geweld --- Assassins --- Vigilance committees
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These essays, written by leading historian of violence and Presidential Commission consultant Richard Maxwell Brown, consider the challenges posed to American society by the criminal, turbulent, and depressed elements of American life and the violent response of the established order. Covering violent incidents from colonial American to the present, Brown presents illuminating discussions of violence and the American Revolution, black-white conflict from slave revolts to the black ghetto riots of the 1960's, the vigilante tradition, and two of America's most violent regions--Central Texas, which...
Violence --- Vigilance committees. --- Crime prevention --- Criminal justice, Administration of --- Death squads --- Citizen participation
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Since its independence in the nineteenth century, the South American state of Colombia has been shaped by decades of bloody political violence. In The Para-State, Aldo Civico draws on interviews with paramilitary death squads and drug lords to provide a cultural interpretation of the country's history of violence and state control. Between 2003 and 2008, Civico gained unprecedented access to some of Colombia's most notorious leaders of the death squads. He also conducted interviews with the victims of paramilitary, with drug kingpins, and with vocal public supporters of the paramilitary groups. Drawing on the work of Deleuze and Guattari, this riveting work demonstrates how the paramilitaries have in essence become a war machine deployed by the Colombian state to control and maintain its territory and political legitimacy.
Death squads --- Paramilitary forces --- Assassins --- Vigilance committees --- Death squads - Colombia. --- 21st century colombia. --- cacique nutibara. --- cali cartel. --- colombian cartel. --- colombian control of citizenry. --- colombian death squads. --- colombian drug lords. --- colombian drug trade. --- colombian drug war. --- colombian paramilitary. --- colombian political violence. --- colombian politics. --- colombias drug kingpins. --- history of violence in colombia. --- paramilitary action in colombia. --- paramilitary death squads. --- state control in colombia. --- violence in colombia.
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Military government --- Death squads --- State-sponsored terrorism --- South America --- France --- Algeria
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Crime prevention --- Death squads --- Government, Resistance to --- Law enforcement --- Vigilance committees --- Citizen participation --- Prevention
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Death squads --- Human rights --- Paramilitary forces --- Colombia --- United States --- Military relations --- Military relations
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Apartheid --- Death squads --- Police misconduct --- Political persecution --- Violence --- South Africa --- Race relations.
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