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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Shooting to Kill: Socio-Legal Perspectives on the Use of Lethal Force by Edited by Simon Bronitt Edited by Miriam Gani Edited by Dr Saskia Hufnagel
This book brings together perspectives from different legal fields to examine the legal moral and political issues arising in relation to the use of lethal force in domestic and international law. These issues have particular salience in the counter-terrorism context following 9/11 (including the spectre of shooting down hijacked airplanes) and the use of force in Operation Kratos that led to the tragic shooting of Charles Menezes. However such concerns are not confined to the arena of terrorism: these essays examine how the state sanctions the use of lethal force in varied ways - through case-law and legislation that excuses or justifies the use of lethal force in the course of executing an arrest preventing crime or disorder or protecting private property. An important theme is the way in which domestic and international legal orders intersect and influence one another. Another is that 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.