Death Squads in Global Perspective

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Death Squads in Global Perspective is written by B. Campbell and published by Springer. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0230108148 (ISBN 10) and 9780230108141 (ISBN 13).

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.