American violence is schizophrenic. On the one hand, many Americans support the creation of a powerful bureaucracy of coercion made up of police and military forces in order to provide public security. At the same time, many of those citizens also demand the private right to protect their own famili...

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1. Verfasser:	Obert, Jonathan ca. 20./21. Jh (VerfasserIn)
Format:	Buch
Sprache:	English
Veröffentlicht:	Cambridge ; New York ; Port Melbourne ; New Delhi ; Singapore Cambridge University Press 2018
Schlagworte:	Violence / Political aspects / United States Vigilantes / United States Police / United States Firearms ownership / United States Gewalt Waffenrecht Politik Polizei USA
Zusammenfassung:	American violence is schizophrenic. On the one hand, many Americans support the creation of a powerful bureaucracy of coercion made up of police and military forces in order to provide public security. At the same time, many of those citizens also demand the private right to protect their own families, home, and property. This book diagnoses this schizophrenia as a product of a distinctive institutional history, in which private forms of violence - vigilantes, private detectives, mercenary gunfighters - emerged in concert with the creation of new public and state forms of violence such as police departments or the National Guard. This dual public and private face of American violence resulted from the upending of a tradition of republican governance, in which public security had been indistinguishable from private effort, by the nineteenth-century social transformations of the Civil War and the Market Revolution
Beschreibung:	xvii, 271 Seiten
ISBN:	9781108454148 9781316515143