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- Title
Civilian United States support for military and imperial state crime.
- Authors
Klein, Joshua
- Abstract
This article theorizes United States civilian support for military and interventionist state crimes. It is an initial sketch of how micro and macro social forces, structures, and culture promote popular support for war by partly militarizing civilian selves. Civilian selves are inculcated from birth with military and imperial behavior, ideas, and emotions. This then results in large portions of the public advocating or at least accepting militarist and imperialist policies. Though they are not the cause of military state crime, public support or apathy contribute. Critical sociology and critical criminology can, drawing on other disciplines, help illuminate processes that make civilians accepting of aggressive war.
- Subjects
STATE crimes; INTERVENTION (Criminal procedure); MILITARY crimes; CRITICAL criminology; MILITARIZATION of police
- Publication
Journal of Theoretical & Philosophical Criminology, 2016, Vol 8, Issue 2, p124
- ISSN
2166-8094
- Publication type
Article