Death Squads in Global Perspective: Murder with Deniability

Death squads have become an increasingly common feature of the modern world. In nearly all instances, their establishment is tolerated, encouraged, or undertaken by the state itself, which thereby risks its monopoly on the use of force, one of the fundamental characteristics of modern states. Why do such a variety of regimes, under very different circumstances, condone such activity? Death Squads in Global Perspective hopes to answer that question and explain not only their development, but also why they can be expected to proliferate in the early 21st century.

Author: B. Campbell
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Published: 04/21/2000
Pages: 364
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.11lbs
Size: 8.55h x 5.84w x 1.37d
ISBN: 9780312213657

Review Citation(s):
Reference and Research Bk News 08/01/2000 pg. 123

About the Author
BRUCE CAMPBELL is Assistant Professor of Modern Languages and Literature at the College of William and Mary.

ARTHUR D. BRENNER is Assistant Professor of History at Siena College.