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Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2010
Internet Child Abuse: Current Research and Policy provides a timely overview of international policy, legislation and offender management and treatment practice in the area of Internet child abuse. Internet use has grown considerably over the last five years, and information technology now forms a...
by Rose-Marie Belle Antoine
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2008
Fully updated and revised to fit in with the new laws and structure in the Commonwealth Caribbean law and legal systems, this new edition examines the institutions, structures and processes of the law in the Commonwealth Caribbean.
The author explores:
- the court system and the new...
Child Sexual Abuse
Media Representations and Government Reactions
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2008
Child Sexual Abuse critically evaluates the development of policy and legislative measures to control sex offenders. The last fifteen years has seen increasing concern on the part of the government, criminal justice agencies, the media and the public, regarding child sexual abuse. This concern...
Punishment and Madness
Governing Prisoners with Mental Health Problems
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2007
The focus of this book is on the government of prisoners with mental health problems in England and Wales over the last twenty-five years. The wider context and backdrop to the book is the shift to 'late modernity', which, since the 1970s has seen massive structural change in most Western societies,...
by Roger Matthews
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2008
Prostitution has become an extremely topical issue in recent years and attention has focused both on the situation of female prostitutes and the adequacy of existing forms of regulation. Prostitution, Politics & Policy brings together the main debates and issues associated with prostitution in...
A History of Drugs
Drugs and Freedom in the Liberal Age
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2009
Why are some psychoactive substances regarded as ‘dangerous drugs’, to be controlled by the criminal law within a global prohibition regime, whilst others – from alcohol and tobacco, through to those we call ‘medicines’ – are seen and regulated very differently? A History of Drugs traces...
Human Genes and Neoliberal Governance
A Foucauldian Critique
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2007
Original and interdisciplinary, this is the first book to explore the relationship between a neoliberal mode of governance and the so-called genetic revolution.
Looking at the knowledge-power relations in the post-genomic era and addressing the pressing issues of genetic privacy and discrimination...
Commonwealth Caribbean Law of Trusts
Third Edition
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2014
The law of trusts is a subject of considerable importance in the Commonwealth Caribbean. Traditional areas, such as testamentary trusts, resulting and constructive trusts, and charitable trusts, are now fully incorporated into the mainstream substantive law of the region, while the principles associated...
Reading Modern Law
Critical Methodologies and Sovereign Formations
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2012
Reading Modern Law identifies and elaborates upon key critical methodologies for reading and writing about law in modernity. The force of law rests on determinate and localizable authorizations, as well as an expansive capacity to encompass what has not been pre-figured by an order of rules. The key...
Intersectionality and Beyond
Law, Power and the Politics of Location
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2008
This collection addresses the present and the future of the concept of intersectionality within socio-legal studies. Intersectionality provides a metaphorical schema for understanding the interaction of different forms of disadvantage, including race, sexuality, and gender. But it also goes further...
Evolution of a Revolution
Forty Years of the Singapore Constitution
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2009
This book presents a timely assessment of the impact of history, politics and economics in shaping the Singapore Constitution, going beyond the descriptive narrative, the authors will cast a critical eye over the developments of the last 40 years.
The Political Economy of Desire
International Law, Development and the Nation State
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2007
Containing the best interdisciplinary work in international law, this book offers an intelligent and thought-provoking analysis of the genealogy of Western capitalist ‘development’. Putting forth ground-breaking arguments and challenging the traditional boundaries of thinking about the concept...
by Rodger Geary
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2012
Understanding Criminal Law clarifies a subject which students often find somewhat difficult and confusing. This difficulty stems partly from the rapid changes which criminal law undergoes, through frequent statutory amendments and judicial decisions, but more importantly from the sheer complexity...
Townshend-Smith on Discrimination Law
Text, Cases and Materials
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2013
Discrimination law is rapidly expanding and of growing importance. At present the law covers gender, race and disability discrimination, sexual orientation and age. This new edition covers all of these areas. It also contains separate chapters on the social, political and philosophical aspects for...