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Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2018
The recent rise of international trade courts and tribunals deserves systemic study and in-depth analysis. This volume gathers contributions from experts specialised in different regional adjudicators of trade disputes and scrutinises their operations in the light of the often-debated legitimacy issues....
by K. Daly
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2014
Winner of the Christine M. Alder Book Prize in 2015 from the Australian and New Zealand
Society of Criminology
Historical abuse of children is a worldwide phenomenon. This book assesses the enablers of abuse and the reasons it took so long for officials to respond. It analyzes redress...
Reducing Drug Trafficking Revenues and Violence in Mexico
Would Legalizing Marijuana in California Help?
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2010
U.S. demand for illicit drugs creates markets for Mexican drug- trafficking organizations (DTOs) and helps foster violence in Mexico. This paper examines how marijuana legalization in California might influence DTO revenues and the violence in Mexico.
Solitary Confinement
Social Death and Its Afterlives
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2013
Prolonged solitary confinement has become a widespread and standard practice in U.S. prisons—even though it consistently drives healthy prisoners insane, makes the mentally ill sicker, and, according to the testimony of prisoners, threatens to reduce life to a living death. In this profoundly important...
The Ride
The Jeffrey Curley Murder and Its Aftermath
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2009
The Ride tells the shocking true story of the 1997 abduction and gruesome murder of ten-year-old Massachusetts resident Jeffrey Curley, and how his father, Bob, healed the deep wounds of rage and emerged to become an outspoken critic of the death penalty.
A War on Terror?
The European Stance on a New Threat, Changing Laws and Human Rights Implications
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2009
Marianne Wade and Almir Maljevi? Although the worries about terrorism paled in comparison to the economic crisis as a topic during the last US election, one can find plenty of grounds to assume that they remain issue number one in the minds of politicians in Europe. As the German houses of Parliament...
PRISONERS OF THE VOID
The existential misgivings of a legal aid lawyer
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2018
I’ll suppose that the automaton adapted and restructured itself instinctively, and by behavioural permutations as it trundled along. My thoughts urge me to demonstrate how this creature that I am might have deviated significantly from a period early in the seventeenth century, only to loom larger...
Homeland Security
An Introduction to Principles and Practice, Third Edition
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2016
Since formed in 2002, DHS has been at the forefront of determining and furthering some of the most hotly debated security issues facing the U.S. and global community in the 21st century. Nearly 200 university programs with undergrad and graduate majors have cropped up in the last dozen-plus years...
Policing and Human Rights
The Meaning of Violence and Justice in the Everyday Policing of Johannesburg
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2011
Policing and Human Rights analyses the implementation of human rights standards, tracing them from the nodal points of their production in Geneva, through the board rooms of national police management and training facilities, to the streets of downtown Johannesburg. This book deals with how the unprecedented...
The Gender of Reparations
Unsettling Sexual Hierarchies while Redressing Human Rights Violations
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2009
Reparation programs seeking to provide for victims of gross and systematic human rights violations are becoming an increasingly frequent feature of transitional and post-conflict processes. Given that women represent a very large proportion of the victims of these conflicts and authoritarianism, it...
Transitional Justice and Reconciliation
Lessons from the Balkans
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2015
Scholars and practitioners alike agree that somehow the past needs to be addressed in order to enable individuals and collectives to rebuild trust and relationships. However, they also continue to struggle with critical questions. When is the right moment to address the legacies of the past after...
The Death Penalty in China
Policy, Practice, and Reform
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2015
Featuring experts from Europe, Australia, Japan, China, and the United States, this collection of essays follows changes in the theory and policy of China's death penalty from the Mao era (1949–1979) through the Deng era (1980–1997) up to the present day. Using empirical data, such as capital...
The Judicial System and Reform in Post-Mao China
Stumbling Towards Justice
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2016
This comprehensive study examines the development and changing characteristics of the judicial system and reform process over the past three decades in China. As the role of courts in society has increased so too has the amount of public complaints about the judiciary. At the same time, political...
by Hall Caine
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2009
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