Tolerating State Violence [Hardcover]

Using contemporary case examples from three liberal democracies? Aotearoa New Zealand, Australia and the United Kingdom- this?book questions: how do state institutions create the conditions for the tolerance of state violence and harms? And, from this knowledge, how might we make the violence and harms intolerable?

In Tolerating State Violence, Elizabeth Stanley solidifies her status as a leading authority in state crime studies by addressing the paradox of powerful states and corporations inflicting serious harms and crimes with remarkable openness and minimal consequences. Stanley effectively illustrates how states and their corporate allies (re)construct the social, legal, political, and economic systems that not only enable these abuses of power but also obscure them by continuously misleading the public about the purported benevolence of states and their operatives. This book is essential reading for those wishing to understand the real threats facing contemporary society and to investigate avenues for resisting and transforming their attendant structural forces.

Steven Bittle, Professor of Criminology, University of Ottawa, Canada

In this timely take on the role and responsibilities of states in inflicting and facilitating harm, this book takes us through the insidious mechanisms by which societies come to tolerate endemic violence. Stanley meticulously documents multifarious state crimes and harms, as well as collective resistance - A searing critique from a leading state crime scholar.

Victoria Canning, Professor of Criminology, Lancaster University, UK

In our current existential crises of genocide, immiseration, institutional corruption and environmental collapse, its hard to imagine anythilóž