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Title Shooting to kill : the ethics of police and military use of lethal force / Seumas Miller.
Author Miller, Seumas, author.
Publisher New York : Oxford University Press, [2016]
Copyright ©2016


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 In Library  Standard  Library Level 6  Sociology YC615 MIL  

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Description x, 294 pages ; 24 cm
ISBN 9780190626136 hardback
9780190626143 paperback
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Introduction -- Morally permissible use of lethal force: a taxonomy -- Killing in self-defense -- 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.
Library Class Sociology YC615
Subject Police ethics.
Military ethics.
Police shootings -- Moral and ethical aspects.
Combat -- Moral and ethical aspects.
Public safety -- Moral and ethical aspects.
National security -- Moral and ethical aspects.

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