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Shooting to kill : the ethics of police and military use of lethal force / Seumas Miller.
LIBRA HV7924 .M553 2016
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Miller, Seumas, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Police ethics.
- Military ethics.
- Police shootings--Moral and ethical aspects.
- Police shootings.
- Combat--Moral and ethical aspects.
- Combat.
- Public safety--Moral and ethical aspects.
- Public safety.
- National security--Moral and ethical aspects.
- National security.
- Physical Description:
- x, 294 pages ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, [2016]
- Summary:
- Seumas Miller analyzes the various moral justifications and moral responsibilities involved in the use of lethal force by police and military combatants, relying on a distinctive normative teleological account of institutional roles. Throughout the book, Miller touches on issues of crucial contemporary relevance such as police shootings of armed offenders, police shootings of suicide-bombers, targeted killing, autonomous weapons, humanitarian armed intervention, and civilian immunity. Book jacket.
- Contents:
- Introduction
- Morally permissible use of lethal force: a taxonomy
- Killing in self-defence
- Police officers, regular soldiers and normative institutional analysis
- Police use of lethal force
- Police use of lethal force and suicide bombers
- Military use of lethal force
- Civilian immunity
- Humanitarian armed intervention
- Targeted killing
- Autonomous weapons and moral responsibility
- Conclusion.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780190626143
- 0190626143
- 9780190626136
- 0190626135
- OCLC:
- 946725982
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