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Book SynopsisEconomic, Social and Cultural Rights is a collection of seminal papers examining legal, conceptual and practical questions regarding the international legal protection of economic, social and cultural rights. The volume discusses what human rights obligations economic, social and cultural rights entail for states and non-state actors; the nature and scope of substantive economic, social and cultural rights such as education, health, work, water, enjoyment of the benefits of scientific progress, and cultural rights; as well as the justiciability of these rights at an international level and at the national level. The paramount importance of such questions is illustrated, among other things, by the catastrophic situation of economic, social and cultural rights as human rights in developing and developed states. The volume is divided into three main parts which focus on human rights obligations for states and non-state actors arising from treaties protecting economic, social and culturalTrade Review'Any library featuring International Law would be incomplete without this handy collection of insightful essays by the key academics in the field.' American Society of International Law NewsletterTable of ContentsContents: Introduction; Part I Human Rights Obligations: The nature and scope of states parties' obligations under the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, Philip Alston and Gerard Quinn; The applicability of international human rights law to non-state actors: what relevance to economic, social and cultural rights?, Manisuli Ssenyonjo; Limitations to and derogations from economic, social and cultural rights, Amrei Müller; Countering, branding, dealing: using economic and social rights in and around the international trade regime, Robert Wai. Part II Selected Substantive Rights: Enhancing enforcement of economic, social and cultural rights using indicators: a focus on the right to education in the ICESCR, Sital Kalantry, Jocelyn E. Getgen and Steven Arrigg Koh; Health systems and the right to health: an assessment in 194 countries, Gunilla Backman, Paul Hunt, Rajat Khosla, et al; The personal application of the right to work in the age of migration, Haina Lu; A human right to access water? A critique of General Comment No. 15, Stephen Tully; Towards an understanding of the right to enjoy the benefits of scientific progress and its application, Audrey R. Chapman; What are cultural rights? Protecting groups with individual rights, Laura Reidel. Part III Justiciability of Economic, Social and Cultural Rights: Justiciability of economic, social, and cultural rights: should there be an international complaints mechanism to adjudicate the rights to food, water, housing, and health?, Michael J. Dennis and David P. Stewart; Chronicle of an announced birth: the coming into life of the optional protocol to the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights - the missing piece of the International Bill of Human Rights, Catarina de Albuquerque; The collective complaints system of the European social charter: interpretative methods of the European Committee of Social Rights, Holly Cullen; Justiciability of economic, social and cultura

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Book SynopsisThis volume of essays brings together some of the best writing on music and protest from the last thirty years. Encompassing a variety of genres, from classical to many different kinds of popular music, the collection selects articles on a broad range of topics - including revolutions and uprisings, environmentalism, class, identity, struggles for self-determination as well as rights and the historical legacy of protest music - and from at least fifteen different countries, confirming the contention that music is one of the primary languages of protest. Written by leading researchers and educators from different countries and cultures, this volume, which documents the importance of music and protest, is an indispensable collection for those working in the fields of music, cultural studies, politics, history, anthropology and area studies.Table of ContentsContents: Introduction; Part I The Social Discourses of Music: La gaita zuliana: music and the politics of protest in Venezuela, Light Carruyo; Feed the world, free the world..., Robin Denselow; 'Scream against the sky': Japanese avant-garde music in the 60s, Yayoi Uno Everett; Central American revolutionary music, Fred Judson; Ska and the roots of Rastafarian musical protest, Stephen A. King; Playing at poverty: the music hall and the staging of the working class, Ian Peddie. Part II Resistance, Struggle and Conflict: Irony, deception, and political culture in the works of Dmitri Shostakovich, Jennifer Gerstel; Iran: 'like a flower growing in the middle of the desert', Mark LeVine; Yugoslav and post-Yugoslav encounters with popular music and human rights, Rajko MurÅ¡ic; Shooting and crying: the emergence of protest in Israeli popular music, Scott Streiner; Moving in decency: the music and radical politics of Cornelius Cardew, Timothy D. Taylor. Part III The Politics Within: The language of the young people: rap, urban culture and protest in Tanzania, José Arturo Saavedra Casco; 'Rocking the boat' in South Africa? Voëlvry music and Afrikaans anti-apartheid social protest in the 1980s, Albert Grundlingh; Mühsam, Brecht, Eisler, and the 20th-century revolutionary heritage, David Robb; Fascist music from the West: anti-rock campaigns, problems of national identity, and human rights in the 'closed city' of Soviet Ukraine, 1975-84, Sergei I. Zhuk. Part IV Local Struggles, Global Impacts: The vision of possibility: popular music, women and human rights, Sheila Whiteley; Rap in Indonesian youth music of the 1990s: 'globalization', 'outlaw genres' and social protest, Michael Bodden; The bitter wounding: the lament as social protest in rural Greece, Anna Caraveli; Treaty now: popular music and the indigenous struggle for justice in contemporary Australia, Aaron Corn; 'My dirty stream': Pete Seeger, American folk music, and environmental protest, David Ingram; Hybridity, A

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Book SynopsisSexual rules and regulations are among society's oldest yet it is only in recent decades that this once-stigmatized field has become the focus of scholarly attention. This volume, which includes some of the most thought-provoking and hard-to-find essays in the field, covers a diverse range of topics from sexual orientation and gender identity to intersexuality and commercial sex, and from HIV/AIDS and trafficking to polygamy. Through historical, political and critical-theoretical lenses, and through a global focus, the selections ask how we conceptualize the groups and acts subjected to sexual regulation and how regulations in the field implicate and produce understandings of sexuality and identity. By placing this variety of works together, Sexuality and Equality Law invites fresh insights into commonalities and synergies across regulatory arenas that are often isolated from one another. The volume's introduction situates all of these works in the broader field and offers readers an eTable of ContentsContents: Introduction; The rights and wrongs of sexuality, Jeffrey Weeks; The sexual citizen, Carl F. Stychin; Understanding lesbian and gay rights, Nicholas Bamforth; From ’sex rights’ to ’love rights’: partnership rights as human rights, Robert Wintemute; Sticky intuitions and the future of sexual orientation discrimination, Suzanne B. Goldberg; The sex discrimination argument in gay rights cases, Nan D. Hunter; Coming out and challenging the closet, 1961-1981, William N. Eskridge; Shared values of Singapore: sexual minority rights as Singaporean value, Phil C.W. Chan; Constructing the personal narratives of lesbian, gay and bisexual asylum claimants, Laurie Berg and Jenni Millbank; Black rights, gay rights, civil rights, Devon W. Carbado; The epistemic contract of bisexual erasure, Kenji Yoshino; Gender pluralisms under the transgender umbrella, Paisley Currah; What’s wrong with rights?, Dean Spade; Beyond the locker room: changing narratives on early surgery for intersex children, Alison Davidian; HIV is a virus, not a crime: ten reasons against criminal statutes and criminal prosecutions, Edwin Cameron, Scott Burris and Michaela Clayton; Secondary effects, Joe Rollins; The regulation of prostitution: contemporary contexts and comparative perspectives, Vanessa E. Munro and Marina Della Giusta; Evolving a policy - legal status, Lenore Kuo; ’Faith’ and the ’good’ liberal: the construction of female sexual subjectivity in anti-trafficking legal discourse, Ratna Kapur; What’s queer about polygamy, Margaret Denike; Name index.

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Book SynopsisThe essays in this volume illuminate a central paradox in the post-colonial West: race remains a potent index of social, economic and political inequality even while racial discrimination has become unlawful, even anathema. The standard account of this paradox is that racial discrimination and inequality are unfortunate vestiges of the past, which an enlightened legal system is now engaged in extirpating. These essays reveal a different story: equality law preserves racial inequality even while denouncing it. The authors show how in country after country, legal rules define racism so narrowly and make racial discrimination so difficult to prove that inequality persists despite its symbolic extinction. This ground-breaking volume of English-language essays, aimed at academics and researchers, shows how critical race theory, an analytic approach developed in the United States, can shed light on the workings of race in political-legal systems as diverse as South Africa, New Zealand, FrancTable of ContentsContents: Introduction; Part I Defining Race and Racism: Re-framing Europe: en-gendered racisms, ethnicities and nationalisms in contemporary Western Europe, Avtar Brah; Red: racism and the American Indian, Bethany R. Berger. Part II Race and Racism: Social Contradictions: A region in denial: racial discrimination and racism in Latin America, Ariel E. Dulitzsky; 'Who wants to feel white?' Race, Dutch culture and contested identities, Philomena Essed and Sandra Trienekens; Reproductive labor: sex and domestic work in Cyprus, Greece and Turkey, Anna M. Agathangelou; Order and security in the city: producing race and policing neoliberal spaces in South Africa, Tony Roshan Samara. Part III Race and Racism: Legal Contradictions: An indigenous lens into comparative law: the doctrine of discovery in the United States and New Zealand, Robert J. Miller and Jacinta Ruru; Antidiscrimination law: the view from 1989, Alan Freeman; The ideology of the Brazilian nation and the Brazilian legal theory of racial discrimination, Seth Racusen; French criminalization of racial employment discrimination compared to the imposition of civil penalties in the United States, Donna M. Gitter; The past is unpredictable: race, redress and remembrance in the South African Constitution, Pierre De Vos; Savages, victims, and saviors: the metaphor of human rights, Makau Mutua; Recreating the state, Jacqueline Stevens; Name index.

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Book SynopsisThis volume draws on several decades of advocacy for law reform to advance gender equality. The essays illustrate the evolution of dominant theoretical approaches and trace their application to core issues, such as the meaning of gender, family formation and roles, equality in the workplace, reproductive rights and violence. The selections are international in their range and include recent works that summarize foundational discussions as well as less well-known articles and essays which capture defining issues with enduring resonance. Taken together, these articles form the basis for discussions of recurring themes such as: how best to define and account for biological, social or cultural differences based on gender; how the law can recognize historic and ongoing gender subordination while supporting individuals' autonomy and agency; and the nature and role of women's sexuality. They exemplify the ongoing dialectic between well-intentioned reform and unintended consequences that charaTable of ContentsContents: Introduction; Part I Theoretical Approaches and Overview: Three stages of feminist legal theory, Martha Chamallas; Feminist theories and international law, Hilary Charlesworth and Christine Chinkin; Feminist legal theory and understandings of equality: one step forward or two steps back?, Reg Graycar and Jenny Morgan; Power and danger: feminist engagement with international law through the UN Security Council, Dianne Otto; Naming gender stereotyping, Rebecca J. Cook and Simone Cusack; EU gender equality law, Susanne Burri and Sacha Prechal. Part II Gender: Multiple and Complex Identities: Theorizing yes: an essay on feminism, law and desire, Katherine Franke; New complexity theories: from theoretical innovation to doctrinal reform, Darren Lenard Hutchinson; The transgender rights imaginary, Paisley Currah; Theorizing class, gender and the law: three approaches, Angela P. Harris. Part III Family: Transracial adoption: mothers, hierarchy, race, and feminist legal theory, Twila L. Perry; Who’s afraid of polygamy? Exploring the boundaries of family, equality and custom in South Africa, Penelope E. Andrews; Compulsory matrimony, Ruthann Robson. Part IV Work: Leave - Work/Family: Work, caregiving, and masculinities, Ann C. McGinley; Work/family reconciliation, equal opportunities and social policies: the interpretation of policy trajectories at the EU level and the meaning of gender equality, Jane Lewis. Low-Wage Workers: The four-day work week: but what about Ms Coke, Ms Upton, and Ms Blankenship?, Shirley Lung; Conclusion: the limits of labour law, Elsje Bonthuys. Sexual Harassment: The sanitized workplace revisited, Vicki Schultz. Sex Work and Trafficking: Migrant women and the legal politics of anti-trafficking interventions, Ratna Kapur. Part V Reproductive Rights: Creating and solving the problem of drug use during pregnancy, Dorothy E. Roberts; Sex equality arguments for reproductive rights: their critical basis and evolving constitutional expression, R

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Book SynopsisThis volume of leading scholarly articles addresses the international dynamics of emergency policy and practice. In a world of increasing technological, economic and political interdependency, it is no longer feasible for states to ignore the pervasive influence of globalisation. The crises wrought by industrial disasters, catastrophic weather events, pandemics, financial implosion and cyber intrusion now transcend and challenge national interests with increasing frequency. The case-studies collected here explore these global dimensions of crisis and the state through the lenses of planning and prevention, acute responses, recovery and reconstruction, and learning about crisis. This collection is essential reading for academics, policy officials and practitioners with an interest in emergency management, risk management and issues of national/global security. In original introductory and concluding chapters to the volume, Legrand and McConnell provide a critical perspective on the chTable of ContentsContents: Introduction; Part I Prevention and Planning in a Globalized World: Preparing for the world risk society: towards a new security paradigm for the European Union, Arjen Boin and Magnus Ekengren; Governing by looking back: historical analogies and crisis management, Annika Brändström, Fredrik Bynander and Paul 't Hart; Crisis management: toward a new informational 'localism' in local government reform, Alan Jarman, Kevin Sproats and Alexander Kouzmin; A new cosmology of risks and crises: time for a radical shift in paradigm and practice, Patrick Lagadec; Megacities as global risk areas, Frauke Kraas; Preventing transboundary crises: the management and regulation of setbacks, Emery Roe; Strategies for high risk reduction and management as global responsibility, Lorenzo Miccoli and Francesca Destefano. Part II Acute Responses and Influences Beyond the Nation-State: Managing transboundary crises: identifying the building blocks of an effective response system, Chris Ansell, Arjen Boin and Ann Keller; International crisis response and a Canadian role, Jane Boulden; Institutional and political leadership dimensions of cascading ecological crises, Victor Galaz, Fredrik Moberg, Eva-Karin Olsson, Eric Paglia and Charles Parker; The policy-media interaction model: measuring media power during humanitarian crisis, Piers Robinson; September 11: public administration and the study of crises and crisis management, Uriel Rosenthal; Communication management during risk events and crises in a globalised world: predictability of domestic media attention for calamities, Bastiaan C.J. Zoeteman, Wouter C. Kersten, Wiebe F. Vos, Lieke van de Voort and Ben J.M. Ale; Globalisation, complex humanitarian emergencies and health, T.J.D. O'Dempsey and B. Munslow. Part III Recovery and Reconstruction in the Shadow of Globalization: Towards the development of a standard in emergency planning, David Alexander; Enhancing disaster recovery: lessons from exemplary international disaster management practices, Jeffrey D. Garnett and Melinda Moore; Post-disaster recovery dilemmas: challenges in balancing short-term and long-term needs for vulnerability reduction, Jane C. Ingram, Guillermo Franco, Cristina Rumbaitis-del Rio and Bjian Khazai; The shock doctrine: a discussion, Naomi Klein and Neil Smith; Humanitarian crises: what determines the level of emergency assistance? Media coverage, donor interests and the aid business, Gorm Rye Olsen, Nils Carstensen and Kristian Høyen; Neoliberalism, INGO practices and sustainable disaster recovery: a post-Katrina case study, Loretta Pyles; The international humanitarian system and the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunamis, John Telford and John Cosgrave. Part IV The Possibilities of Crisis Learning in a Globalized World: Coastal oil pollution: spills, crisis, and policy change, Rick S. Kurtz; Learning from exemplary practices in international disaster management: a fresh avenue to inform US policy?, Melinda Moore, Horacio R. Trujillo, Brooke K. Stearns, Ricardo Basurto-Davila and David K. Evans; Disaster risk, climate change and international development: scope for, and challenges to, integration, Lisa Schipper and Mark Pelling; Resisting neo-liberalism: the poisoned water disaster in Walkerton, Ontario, Laureen Snider; Rethinking the nature of disaster: from failed instruments of learning to a post-social understanding, Stewart Williams; Conclusion; Name index.

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Book SynopsisThe essays selected for this volume provide a comprehensive overview of the philosophical, ethical, historical, legal and practical issues in the diverse field of emergency law. The essays focus on terrorist attacks and natural disasters and highlight the roles of a vast variety of actors, such as the military, fire services, health services, police, volunteers and many more. The volume reveals legislative trends in emergency law by combining different national, international and comparative legal perspectives on a number of different types of emergency situations. In addition, essays taken from a practitioner perspective provide insight into civilian and military emergency management on the ground and the frequently reoccurring legal challenges. By comparing different national approaches to emergency law and emergency management, this collection of essays goes beyond the narrow view of one political system and draws instructive conclusions relating to the similarities and differeTable of ContentsContents: Introduction; Part I The Evolution of Emergency Law: Schmitt v Dicey: are states of emergency outside the legal order?, David Dyzenhaus; One law for war and peace? Judicial review and emergency powers between the norm and the exception, Ian Zuckerman; The law of the exception: a typology of emergency powers, John Ferejohn and Pasquale Pasquino. Part II Emergency Law and the Interaction with Military Law: Defending Korematsu?: reflections on civil liberties in wartime, Mark Tushnet; North American emergencies: the use of emergency powers in Canada and the United States, Kim Lane Scheppele; While the government fiddled around, the Big Easy drowned: how the Posse Comitatus Act became the government's alibi for the Hurricane Katrina disaster, Candidus Dougherty; The military call-out legislation, Michael Head. Part III Emergency Law and Disaster Response: Mother Nature versus human nature: public compliance with evacuation and quarantine, Mary-Elise Manuell and Jeffrey Cukor; Collaboration and leadership for effective emergency management, William L. Waugh Jr and Gregory Streib; The federal response to Hurricane Katrina: a case for repeal of the Posse Comitatus Act or a case for learning the law?, Joshua M. Samek. Part IV Emergency Powers and the 'War on Terror': Emergency powers and the rule of law after 9/11, William E. Scheuermann; The emergency constitution, Bruce Ackerman; Constitutional norms in a state of permanent emergency, Sanford Levinson; Balancing security and liberty: critical perspectives on terrorism law reform, Simon Bronitt; German perspectives on the right to life and human dignity in 'the war on terror', Saskia Hufnagel. Part V All Risk Emergency Regulation or Case Specific Regulation: Governance of the critical national infrastructure, Clive Walker; September 11: consequences for Canada, Kent Roach; Extract fromTerrorism: supply and demand, Philip Bobbitt; Conclusion; Name index.

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Book SynopsisThis interdisciplinary collection of essays addresses the theoretical, practical and legal dimensions of equality for persons with disabilities. The issues covered include the central problem of defining disability and impairment; the dilemma of same versus different treatment; the balance between autonomy and external influence and support; linkages to other anti-discrimination categories such as race and sex; the place of disability theory within identity politics; and issues of life, death, and our most intimate relationships. The articles reflect a wealth of international viewpoints and interdisciplinary areas which include philosophy, economics, memoirs, cultural studies, empirical studies and legal scholarship. The selection also includes classic texts which set out foundational ideas such as the social model of disability or the goal of integration, alongside essays that critique these conceptual mainstays. This volume brings into sharp focus a wide range of contentious and Table of ContentsContents: Introduction; Part I Definition and Models: Defining impairment and disability: issues at stake, Mike Oliver; Philosophical issues in the definition and social response to disability, David Wasserman; What I learned, Simi Linton; Critiquing the social model, Tom Shakespeare; The mountain, Eli Clare; Does disability status matter?, Mark Kelman. Part II Theories of Equality and Inclusion: Disability equality: a challenge to the existing anti-discrimination paradigm?, Sandra Fredman; Critical race theory, feminism, and disability: reflections on social justice and personal identity, Adrienne Asch; Anti-subordination above all: a disability perspective, Ruth Colker; Agency and disability, Anita Silvers; The landscape of discrimination today, Susan Stefan; Mental disability law in a comparative law context, Michael L. Perlin; Deaf matters: compulsory hearing and ability trouble, Kristen Harmon. Part III Accommodation and Access: When it is reasonable for Europeans to be confused: understanding when a disability accommodation is 'reasonable' from a comparative perspective, Lisa Waddington; Challenging disabling barriers to information and communication technology in the information society: a United Kingdom perspective, Anna Lawson; Antidiscrimination and accommodation, Christine Jolls; Utilitarianism and distribution to the disabled, Mark S. Stein; Disability studies and the future of identity politics, Tobin Siebers. Part IV Life and Death: Disability, life, death, and choice, Samuel R. Bagenstos; Somewhere a mockingbird, Deborah Kent; Reimagining retardation, transforming community, Allison C. Carey; Introduction, Tom Shakespeare; Was I ever wrong, Michael Bérubé; Name index.

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Book SynopsisEvery modern state sentences convicted offenders for their crimes. But what justifies the imprisonment of democratic citizens and how do we determine the severity of sentences? Does the theory of punishment closely connect with its practice? Should we support one purpose for sentencing or multiple purposes? Or should we reject sentencing in favour of alternatives to imprisonment? This volume brings together classic journal articles on sentencing selected from the work of leading, international figures in the field to address these controversial issues. Sentencing is examined from various critical perspectives, including the relation of theory and practice, the Model Penal Code and development of sentencing guidelines, the link between sentencing and emotions, punitive restoration, and sentencing alternatives such as restorative justice.Table of ContentsContents: Introduction. Part I Sentencing: Theory and Practice: Sentencing: theory, principle, and practice, Andrew Ashworth and Julian Roberts; Crime: in proportion and in perspective, John Gardner; Imprisonment and crime: can both be reduced?, Steven N. Durlauf and Daniel S. Nagin; The case for retributive sentencing, Richard L. Lippke; The place of public opinion in sentencing law, Stephen Shute. Part II Sentencing Guidelines and the Model Penal Code: The utility of desert, Paul H. Robinson and John M. Darley; The disutility of injustice, Paul H. Robinson; Sentencing guidelines at the crossroads of politics and expertise, Rachel E. Barkow; Departures from the sentencing guidelines, Andrew Ashworth; Sentencing councils and victims, Ian Edwards. Part III Sentencing and Emotions: Hearing the voices of victims and offenders: the role of emotions in criminal sentencing, Jonathan Doak and Louise Taylor. Part IV Sentencing as Punitive Restoration: The arts and prisoners: experiences of creative rehabilitation, Briege Nugent and Nancy Loucks; High-intensity rehabilitation for violent offenders in New Zealand: reconviction outcomes for high- and medium-risk prisoners, Devon L.L. Polaschek; Unified theory, Thom Brooks; Stakeholder sentencing, Thom Brooks. Part V Sentencing Alternatives: Setting standards for restorative justice, John Braithwaite; Responsibilities, rights and restorative justice, Andrew Ashworth; Feminism, rape and the search for justice, Clare McGlynn. Name index.

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Book SynopsisThe last fifty years have seen a notable expansion of philosophical scrutiny of the fundamental concepts and structures of Anglo-American criminal law and this volume offers a selection from journal articles and book chapters of significant and influential work in this field. Taken together, these essays illustrate how contemporary philosophical reflection on criminal law has broadened its focus beyond the longstanding and still active debate over the moral legitimacy of punishment. In addition to punishment, the subjects also covered in this collection range from excuse and justification defenses and the conundrums of attempt liability to the bases of culpability and criminal responsibility and the appropriate limits of the criminal law. The introduction clarifies the contexts in which these subjects are discussed, and the volume includes an extensive bibliography.Table of ContentsContents: Introduction. Part I The Structure and Limits of Criminal Law: The aims of the criminal law, Henry M. Hart Jr; Criminal attempt and the theory of the law of crimes, Lawrence C. Becker; Criminalization and sharing wrongs, S.E. Marshall and R.A. Duff. Part II Criminal Responsibility: Character, purpose, and criminal responsibility, Michael D. Bayles; Choice, character, and excuse, Michael S. Moore; Choice, character and criminal liability, R.A. Duff. Part III Culpability: Insufficient concern: a unified conception of criminal culpability, Larry Alexander; Motive and criminal liability, Douglas N. Husak. Part IV Defences, Justifications and Excuses: A theory of justification: societal harm as a prerequisite for criminal liability, Paul H. Robinson; The gist of excuses, John Gardner; The perplexing borders of justification and excuse, Kent Greenawalt; Self-defense, Judith Jarvis Thomson; The basis of moral liability to defensive killing, Jeff McMahan. Part V Attempts: Impossibility in criminal attempts - legality and the legal process, Arnold N. Enker; The punishment that leaves something to chance, David Lewis. Part VI The Justification of Punishment: The expressive function of punishment, Joel Feinberg; The retributive idea, Jean Hampton; Expression, penance and reform and The ideal and the actual, R.A. Duff; Punishment and justification, Mitchell N. Berman. Name index.

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Book SynopsisIn terms of raw numbers, the amount of world urban dwellers have increased four-fold, skyrocketing from 740 million in 1950 to almost 3.3 billion in 2007. This ongoing urbanization will continue to create major security challenges in most countries. Based on contributions from academics and practitioners from countries as diverse as Nigeria, Pakistan, Azerbaijan, and the US, Urbanization, Policing, and Security: Global Perspectives highlights the crime and disorder problems associated with urbanization and demonstrates police and private security responses to those problems.The book draws on the practical experiences of police officials and the academic insights of researchers from around the world to detail the consequences of urbanization â crime, terrorism, disorder, drugs, traffic crashes â as well as modern responses to those problems. Covering studies on major cities in more than 18 countries, this text explores topics such as the role of urbanTrade Review… an intensely academic book, and one that will be read by criminologists interested in policing and crime in other countries. It would be a useful book for any security professional who works internationally or in any of the countries featured.—Ross L. Johnson, CPP., Security ManagementTable of ContentsIntroduction: Policing and Urbanization. URBAN SECURITY PROBLEMS. Urbanization and Crime in Cameroon. .Urbanization and Security in Kampala City, Uganda. Urbanization, Policing, and Safety in Serbia. Urbanization and Security in Russia. Spatial Determinants of Crime in Poland. Drug Problems in Peshawar, Pakistan. Organized Crime in South Africa. Organized Crime and Safety in Azerbaijan. Traffic Administration in Hyderabad, India. Urban Mass Evacuation in the United States. POLICE RESPONSES. Reforming Policing in Victoria, Australia. Urbanization and Community Policing in Nigeria. Policing Multiethnic Societies. Urbanization, Security, and Human Rights. Policing Protests in New York City. Urban Crime and Criminal Investigation in Slovenia. Police Cooperation in International Drug Investigations in North America. Information Sharing between Police and Intelligence Agencies. PRIVATE SECURITY RESPONSES. Public–Private Partnerships in Los Angeles. Post 9/11 Port Security in Houston, Texas. Private Security in Bosnia and Herzegovina. Private Security in South Africa. Body Guarding in South Africa. Urbanization and Security: Moving Forward, Key Themes, and Challenges. Index.

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Book SynopsisIn today''s society, the public perception of crime has been skewed by how the media depicts it. People use the media for enjoyment, companionship, surveillance, and interpretation. The problem is that it becomes hard to separate fact from entertainment. This raises several questions. How are we consuming media? Are we consuming reality within the news? And are we consuming harmless pleasure from entertainment media? In Crime, Media, and Reality: Examining Mixed Messages about Crime and Justice in Popular Media, Venessa Garcia and Samantha Garcia Arkerson focus predominantly on the social constructions of crime and justice and how we absorb them. They look at the influence of crime news and true crime television series that prevent the public from understanding pure entertainment from the realities of crime and justice. They bring to light the social science knowledge missed by media infotainment, which has blurred the line between information and entertainment. Throughout, all differeTrade ReviewA lively and engaging read that tells us much – not only about the American media – but also about the nature of power and politics in the States. With its emphasis on race, gender, crime and justice, Crime, Media, and Reality is a distinctive contribution to the burgeoning literature on media and crime in the U.S. -- Yvonne Jewkes, professor of criminology, University of BrightonIn Crime, Media and Reality, Venessa Garcia and Samantha Arkerson provide an authoritative but also engaging and highly readable account of the media representation of crime, criminals and the criminal justice system. Crime and justice are staple elements across all forms of media and this comprehensive new text highlights the importance of academic criminology acknowledging the extent, popularity and influence of crime stories. -- Ian Marsh, PhD, principal lecturer in criminology, Liverpool Hope UniversityTable of ContentsChapter 1: Introduction Chapter 2: News Media, Social Media, and Crime Waves Chapter 3: Framing and Narrating Crime in the News Chapter 4: Crime in the Movies Chapter 5: Crime Television Chapter 6: Policing Crime Chapter 7: Courtrooms and Lawyers in the Media Chapter 8: Prison in the Media Chapter 9: Conclusion: Media’s Social Construction of Crime and Justice Appendix A: Crime Movies Cited with Release Dates Appendix B: Television Shows Cited with Air Dates

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Book SynopsisThis volume brings together a selection of the most important published research articles from the ongoing debate about the moral rights of prisoners. The articles consider the moral underpinnings of the debate and include framework discussions for a theory of prisoners' rights as well as several international documents which detail the rights of prisoners, including women prisoners. Finally, detailed analysis of the moral bases for particular rights relating to prison conditions covers areas such as: health, solitary confinement, recreation, work, religious observance, library access, the use of prisoners in research and the disenfranchisement of prisoners.Table of ContentsContents: Introduction. Part I Background: The prisoners’ rights movement and its impacts, James B. Jacobs; The short life and painful death of prisoners’ rights, J.M. Shone; Criminal offenders and right forfeiture, Richard L. Lippke; Privatization and the elusive employee-contractor distinction, Alexander Volokh. Part II Foundations: Prisoners’ rights, Hugo Adam Bedau; The case for prisoners’ rights, Genevra Richardson; Toward a theory of prisoners’ rights, Richard L. Lippke. Part III Enumerated Prisoners’ Rights: Social justice and correctional health services, Kenneth Kipnis; Solitary confinement and supermax prisons: a human rights and ethical analysis, Sharon Shalev; The ethical framework for research involving prisoners; Liberal and Republican arguments against the disenfranchisement of felons, Jeffrey Reiman; Prisoner access to recreation, entertainment and diversion, Richard L. Lippke; The right of inmates to work, Rex Martin; In the belly of the whale: religious practice in prison, Harvard Law Review; Reachin’ behind bars: library outreach to prisoners, 1798-2000, Larry E. Sullivan and Brenda Vogel; Prisoners’ right to read: an interpretation of the Library Bill of Rights, American Library Association/Office for Intellectual Freedom. Part IV Major International Documents: The United Nations and the promotion of prison standards, Adam C. Bouloukos and Burkhard Dammann; UN standard minimum rules for the treatment of prisoners (1955); UN body of principles for the protection of all persons under any form of detention or imprisonment (1988); UN basic principles for the treatment of prisoners (1990); UN rules for the treatment of women prisoners and non-custodial measures for women offenders (the Bangkok Rules) (2010). Name index.

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Book SynopsisThe legitimacy and performance of the traditional criminal justice system is the subject of intense scrutiny as the world economic crisis continues to put pressure on governments to cut the costs of the criminal justice system. This volume brings together the leading work on restorative justice to achieve two objectives: to construct a comprehensive and up-to-date conceptual framework for restorative justice suitable even for newcomers; and to challenge the barriers of restorative justice in the hope of taking its theory and practice a step further. The selected articles start by answering some fundamental questions about restorative justice regarding its historical and philosophical origins, and challenge the concept by bringing into the debate the human rights and equality discourses. Also included is material based on empirical testing of restorative justice claims especially those impacting on reoffending rates, victim satisfaction and reintegration. The volume concludes with a criTable of ContentsContents: Introduction. Part I Historical and Philosophical Origins: The history of restorative justice, Elmar G.M. Weitekamp; A restorative lens, Howard Zehr; Setting standards for restorative justice, John Braithwaite; Connecting philosophy and practice, John Braithwaite and Heather Strang; Epilogue: reconstructing restorative justice philosophy, Theo Gavrielides and Vasso Artinopoulou. Part II Equality Matters: Restorative justice and international human rights, Daniel W. Van Ness; Resisting co-optation: three feminist challenges to antiviolence work, James Ptacek; Responding to hate crimes through restorative justice dialogue, Robert B. Coates, Mark S. Umbreit and Betty Vos; Bringing race relations into the restorative justice debate: an alternative and personalized vision of 'the other', Theo Gavrielides. Part III Empirical Testing: Achievements and difficulties, T. Marshall and S. Merry; Towards a framework for conceptualising and evaluating models of criminal justice from a victim's perspective, James Dignan and Michael Cavadino; The ambivalences of restorative justice: some reflections on an Italian prison project, Odillo Vidoni Guidoni; Restoration or renovation? Evaluating restorative justice outcomes, Jaimie P. Beven, Guy Hall, Irene Froyland, Brian Steels and Dorothy Goulding; A third voice: a review of empirical research on the psychological outcomes of restorative justice, Barton Poulson. Part IV Critiques and Pushing the Barriers: Compulsory compassion: justice, fellow-feeling, and the restorative encounter, Annalise Acorn; Victims of restorative governmentalities, George Pavlich; Reflections on family violence and restorative justice: addressing the critique, Anne Hayden; Restorative justice and the retributive legal context, Elizabeth E. Elliott; Restorative pain: a new vision of punishment, Theo Gavrielides. Name Index.

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Book SynopsisBringing together academics and private international lawyers from a wide range of jurisdictions and institutions, this volume explores how private international law can best contribute to the development of the global legal architecture needed to integrate our emerging multicultural world society.

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Book SynopsisThis book takes a unique approach grounded in political and cultural discourse to develop a political theory of restitution.

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Book SynopsisThis volume investigates the peculiarly British fixation with the the lex Aquilia, a Roman statute enacted c.287/286 BCE to reform the Roman law on wrongful damage to property, against thebackdrop larger themes such as the development of delict/tort in Britain and the rise of comparative law.

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Book SynopsisConor McCarthy shows how outlaw literature and espionage literature critique the use of legal exclusion as a means of supporting state power. Texts discussed range from the medieval Robin Hood ballads, Shakespeare's history plays and the Ned Kelly story to John le Carre, Don DeLillo, Ciaran Carson and William Gibson.

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Book SynopsisThis book tells the gripping story of Rfiq Taq, an Azerbaijani journalist and writer, who was condemned to death by an Iranian cleric for a blasphemous news article in 2006. Mohsen Kadivar debates the case with Muhammad Jawad Fazel, the son of Grand Ayatollah Fazel Lankarn who issued the fatwa pronouncing death penalty on Taq.

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Book SynopsisGiorgio Agamben's form-of-life discloses the possibility of a new understanding of political and legal life. This book places 'form-of-life' in the context of contemporary philosophy, re-imagining some of the basic categories of human socialities- such as work, rights, obligation, property and use.

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