Roderic Broadhurst

Violence and the Civilising Process in Cambodia (eBook, ePUB)

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Produktbeschreibung

In 1939, the German sociologist Norbert Elias published his groundbreaking work The Civilizing Process, which has come to be regarded as one of the most influential works of sociology today. In this insightful new study tracing the history of violence in Cambodia, the authors evaluate the extent to which Elias's theories can be applied in a non-Western context. Drawing from historical and contemporary archival sources, constabulary statistics, victim surveys and newspaper reports, Broadhurst, Bouhours and Bouhours chart trends and forms of violence throughout Cambodia from the mid-nineteenth century through to the present day. Analysing periods of colonisation, anti-colonial wars, interdependence, civil war, the revolutionary terror of the 1970s and post-conflict development, the authors assess whether violence has decreased and whether such a decline can be attributed to Elias's civilising process, identifying a series of universal factors that have historically reduced violence.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. November 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781316430279
• Artikelnr.: 44152606

Autorenporträt

Roderic Broadhurst is Foundation Professor of Criminology at the Australian National University, Canberra and a graduate of the University of Western Australia and the University of Cambridge. He is an Associate Fellow of the Australian Institute of Criminology and was formerly Senior Fellow, Crime Research Centre University of Western Australia (1989-94), Associate Professor, the University of Hong Kong (1994-2005), Chair of the Hong Kong Criminology Society (2003-6), and Head of the School of Justice, Queensland University of Technology (2005-8). He was also foundation editor of the Asian Journal of Criminology (2005). His forty-year career as a practitioner, teacher and researcher has included work in prisons, public health, and death investigation. He has contributed widely to the field of criminology in Australia and Asia, and leads the Australian National University Cybercrime Observatory. Recent books include Business and the Risk of Crime in China (2011) and Policing in Context (2009). He has published in the British Journal of Criminology, Survival, Trends in Organized Crime, Homicide Studies and Policing in Society as well chapters in the Oxford Handbook of Organized Crime, Asian Handbook of Criminology, and Transnational Crime. His research has been translated into Chinese, French and Vietnamese, and current work includes research on recidivism and crime in cyberspace.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1. Resistance of a peasant society
2. Patterns of pre-modern criminality
3. Development of the colonial state: modernisation and control
4. The 'golden age' of the Protectorate 1920-40
5. The anti-colonial war 1940-55
6. The golden years of Sihanoukism 1955-66
7. Criminal states and civil wars 1967-75
8. The perfect storm: de-civilising state and society 1975-9
9. Reconstruction in the midst of a civil war: pariahs, bandits, and international accomplices 1979-91
10. Crime and violence in contemporary Cambodia 1991-2012
11. Civilising processes and violence in contemporary Cambodia
12. Discussion
References
Index.