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14 Asian J. Criminology 1 (2019)

handle is hein.journals/asjrcrm14 and id is 1 raw text is: Asian Journal of Criminology (2019) 14:1-2 https://doi.org/10.1007/si 1417-018-9274-0 BOOK REVIEW CrossMark Review of Roderic Broadhurst, Thierry Bouhours, Brigitte Bouhours, Violence and the Civilising Process in Cambodia Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2015. ISBN 978-1-107-10911-7, 362 pages Manuel Eisner' Received: 16 July 2018 /Accepted: 24 July 2018 /Published online: 11 August 2018 C Springer Nature B.V. 2018 Over the past 20 years, a substantial amount of research has shed light on the historical dynamics of interpersonal violence in Europe and the USA. However, there is a continuing massive gap of good research on the historical dynamics of interpersonal violence in other societies. The present book by three experts on crime and criminal justice in the Asian Region is therefore a very welcome pioneering study. It examines how the past 150 years in the history of Cambodia have shaped levels and manifestations of violence. Analysing violence in a society that has experienced colonial rule, civil wars, some of the worst genocides of the twentieth century, and invasion and occupation by another country is a daunting task. The authors of this book respond to this task by adopting a theoretical framework that is inspired by sociological classics such as Marx, Durkheim, Weber and, especially, the German sociologist Norbert Elias who developed the Theory of the Civilising Process in 1939. Furthermore, they integrate a wealth of more contemporary criminological theories, building a complex model of how modernisation affects violence. This framework, developed in the introduction, essentially holds that the long-term dynamics of violence in Cambodia can be interpreted as the result of the civilising processes that Norbert Elias postulated, but interrupted by cataclysmic episodes of decivilising processes. It leads to two challenges that the book aims to address, namely, first, to describe trends in ordinary, collective, and state violence over time, and, second, to examine whether process like state formation, interdependence and sensitisation to vio- lence can explain the observed historical patterns. Throughout the book, the authors build on an impressive wealth of historical and contem- porary archival data, including police and court records, administrative reports, newspapers and victim surveys. While the authors provide ample information, where possible, on non- lethal violence, one of their main interests is an analysis of the incidence and structure of lethal violence. This includes various valuable comparative analysis of homicide types and offender 2 Manuel Eisner mpe23@cam.ac.uk Institute of Criminology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK 4 Springer

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