Silently Silenced

<p>After reading <em>Silently Silenced</em> you will never view the ways of government in quite the same light again. A must-read for all people who are interested in democratic processes particularly in relation to criminology sociology or the law.</p><p>This is the first English edition of a work that has also appeared in Norwegian Swedish and German - and that has been updated by the author to include September 11 and other contemporary developments. A central theme of Silently Silenced is that there exist ‘numerous silent suave and imperceptible methods and processes of silencing opposition which are structural do not have clear-cut limits but are subtly unbounded they absorb opposition they are the methods and processes of everyday life brought into the political realm’.</p><p>As Mathiesen points out it is 'disturbingly clear how easily and imperceptibly we are transformed into acquiescent human beings’. <em>Silently Silenced</em> concludes with a quest for a ‘revitalisation’ of opposition and critique.</p>