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The Rise of Organised Brutality

Hardcover • 2017 • 1. edition

The Rise of Organised Brutality

By Sinisa Malesevic

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About the book

Challenging the prevailing belief that organised violence is experiencing historically continuous decline, this book provides an in-depth sociological analysis that shows organised violence is, in fact, on the rise. Malesevic demonstrates that violence is determined by organisational capacity, ideological penetration and micro-solidarity, rather than biological tendencies, meaning that despite pre-modern societies being exposed to spectacles of cruelty and torture, such societies had no organisa...Show more

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9781107095625

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Cambridge University Press

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2017

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The Rise of Organised Brutality

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