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

• Superior document: Onati international series in law and society
• Author: ProQuest (Firm)
• TeilnehmendeR: Bronitt, Simon.; Gani, Miriam.; Hufnagel, Saskia.; ProQuest (Firm)
• Year of Publication: 2012
• Language: English
• Series: Onati international series in law and society.
• Physical Description: xvii, 324 p.
• Other title: Socio-legal perspectives on the use of lethal force; The rule of law, legal positivism and states of emergency /; Civil emergencies and the claims of innocence /; The right of life between absolute and proportional protection /; Can states commit crimes? /; Law, death and denial in the 'Global War on Terror' /; Shooting to kill innocents : necessity, self-defence and duress in the Commonwealth criminal code /; Regulating reasonable force : policing in the shadows of the law /; When shooting to kill is authorised by the state : a feminist analysis /; Fundamental rights and findamental difference : comparing the right to human dignity and criminal liability in Germany and Australia /; pt. III. Shooting to kill in context : case studies --; The fatal police shooting of Jean Charles de Menezes : is anyone responsible? /; The use of lethal force in counter-piracy operations offi Somalia /; Unlawful killing with combat drones : a case study of Pakistan, 2004-2009 /; Corporations that kill : prosecuting Blackwater /
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• ISBN: 9781849462921 (cloth : alk. paper); 1849462925 (cloth : alk. paper); 9781782250425 (electronic bk.)
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: edited by Simon Bronitt, Miriam Gani and Saskia Hufnagel.