Shooting to Kill : Socio-Legal Perspectives on the Use of Lethal Force

and continually influence one another. While legal approaches to the use of lethal force share common features, the context within which force is deployed varies greatly. Key issues explored in this volume are the extent to which domestic and international law authorise pre-emptive use of force, and how necessity and reasonableness are legally constructed in this context. [Publisher's Text]

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