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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Rethinking Self-Defence: The Ancient Rights Rationale Disentangled by T Markus Funk
Self-defence – the ‘ancient right’ – has never been more relevant than in the present era of widespread calls for criminal justice reform. This book advances the patinaed discussion by introducing a comprehensive value-centric approach to thinking about the defence’s deeper rationale. It tackles core issues including the relative importance of the State’s claimed monopoly on force procedural justice and the need to shore up the justice system’s legitimacy and creditworthiness everyone’s presumptive ‘right to life’ and the importance of ensuring equal standing between citizens. The book breaks new ground by addressing public perceptions of ‘just’ and ‘right’ outcomes as well as the emphasis legal systems place (and should place) on State power.