Shooting to kill [electronic resource] : the ethics of police and military use of lethal force / Seumas Miller.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Miller, Seumas (Author)
Language:English
Published: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, [2016]
Subjects:
Police ethics.
Military ethics.
Police shootings > Moral and ethical aspects.
Combat > Moral and ethical aspects.
Public safety > Moral and ethical aspects.
National security > Moral and ethical aspects.
Online Access:
Oxford Open Ebooks: 2016 (Oxford Academic)
OAPEN (Open Access Publishing in European Networks): 2016 (Open Access Publishing in European Networks)
DOAB Directory of Open Access Books: 2016 (Directory of Open Access Books)
Variant Title:
Shooting to Kill: The Ethics of Police and Military Use of Lethal Force
Format: Electronic eBook
Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Morally permissible use of lethal force: a taxonomy
  • Killing in self-defence
  • Police officers, regular soldiers and normative institutional analysis
  • Police use of lethal force
  • Police use of lethal force and suicide bombers
  • Military use of lethal force
  • Civilian immunity
  • Humanitarian armed intervention
  • Targeted killing
  • Autonomous weapons and moral responsibility
  • Conclusion.