State Fragility Around the World: Fractured Justice and Fierce Reprisal

by Laurie A Gould and Matthew Pate

Book Overview

Failed and fragile states often govern through the criminalization of otherwise inconsequential or tolerated acts. These weak states also frequently use kidnapping, murder, and other violent or oppressive tactics to maintain order and stay in power. State Fragility Around the World: Fractured Justice and Fierce Reprisal analyzes the path to state failure, one manifestation of which appears through the fragility and dysfunction of its criminal...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0367867958
• ISBN13: 9780367867959
• Release Date: December 2019
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 0.94 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"