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He has conducted research for the ESRC, the European Commission and the United Nations. He has worked on penal systems, fiction and crime, illegal markets, social movements and the crimes of the powerful. Vincenzo Ruggiero is Professor of Sociology at Middlesex University. It makes an important contribution to criminological and social theory.

This book will be of interest to all those engaged in research on violence, terrorism, armed conflict and the crimes of the powerful.

He advocates for a reduction of all types of violence, which can be enacted through fairer distribution of resources and the provision of political space for contention and negotiation. Ruggiero argues that systemic violence encourages more institutional violence, which in turn weakens the ability of citizens to set up political agendas for change. From systemic and institutional violence, to the behaviour of crowds, to armed conflict and terrorism, Ruggiero draws on a range of perspectives from criminology, social theory, political science, critical legal studies and literary criticism to consider how these forms of violence are linked in an interdependent field of forces. Visions of Political Violence In this book, Vincenzo Ruggiero offers a typology of different forms of political violence. Deliberative democracy and transgression. From the arms of critique to the critique of arms.

5 Conspiracy and the contemplation of crime.

Ape loot pillage: the political economy of sexual violence in armed conflict