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Political Violence. A Criminological Analysis. Project Utopias of Control and Control of Utopias
Political violence can take two forms: that of authorized or legal force, exercised by authority as an instrument for the preservation or establishment of new systems and new powers, and the unauthorized form, which opposes the very legitimacy of the system. Drawing on the conceptual tools of sociological criminology and through a critical digression that presents the most recent contributions on disobedience and collective action, the author examines the close connections that exist between institutional violence and anti-institutional violence, up to the various forms of terrorism that mark our time. (Excerpt from the foreword).