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Book SynopsisExamines how modern Orthodox Christian thinkers have answered political, legal, and ethical questions. This book discusses the teachings of Orthodox Christian intellectuals of the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries. It also underscores the various ways Orthodox Christian intellectuals have shaped modern debates over the family and society.Trade ReviewRarely have the riches of modern theology and theological anthropology been so incisively analyzed for their insights into the fundamentals of our modern political condition. -- Jean Bethke Elshtain, University of Chicago Crisp, informative, even-handed, and, above all, interesting. It is a joy to learn what riches there are in modern times in the major Christian traditions. -- Robert N. Bellah, University of California, Berkeley A useful resource and a powerful inspiration. -- Rebecca S. Chopp, President, Colgate University; Former President, American Academy of Religion Extraordinary and exciting book, which deserves a wide audience. -- Adam A.J. DeVille Logos: A Journal of Eastern Christian StudiesTable of ContentsForeword Acknowledgments Contributors Introduction, by John Witte Jr. and Frank S. Alexander Introduction to the Modern Orthodox Tradition, by Paul Valliere Vladimir Soloviev (1853-1900) Nicholas Berdyaev (1874-1948) Vladimir Nikolaievich Lossky (1903-1958) Mother Maria Skobtsova (1891-1945) Dumitru Staniloae (1903-1993) Copyright Information Index to Biblical Citations General Index

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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewRobert J. Duran's brilliantly intuitive work covers the literature in the field, and then quickly surpasses it. Having lived the 'life in two cities,' he reveals the genesis of gangs as a challenge to America's structural inequality. If for nothing else, Duran should be read for his eloquent history of racism and society's role in gang formation, an uncomfortable analysis for society's Pontius Pilates. Duran should be appreciated for his insight, praised for his clarity, and lauded for his personal and intellectual courage. -- Ernesto Vigil, author of The Crusade for Justice: Chicano Militancy and the Government's War on Dissent Gang Life in Two Cities is a masterful insider perspective and analysis of gangs, policing, and criminal justice, setting a new standard for research and scholarship in the field. A must read for anyone interested in gangs, gang diversion, and criminal justice. -- Alfredo Mirande, University of California, Riverside Gang Life in Two Cities should be required reading in college courses discussing gangs. Anyone interested in gangs and how society is responding to them should read it, too. -- Nate Carlisle The Salt Lake Tribune Unique and refreshing... [Duran] offers a rich, clear discussion of both the context and meaning of gang participation. -- Elyshia Aseltine Critical Criminology ...an informative and compelling read with a unique approach to gangs. Great Plains Research The personal and empirical narrative and detailed interview excerpts that Duran offers are compelling and convincing... Gang Life in Two Cities develops a new paradigm for understanding gang formation and gang enforcement. Social ForcesTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction 1. Researching Gangs as an Insider 2. The War on Gangs in the Post-Civil Rights Era 3. Racialized Oppression and the Emergence of Gangs 4. Demonizing Gangs Through Religious Righteousness and Suppressed Activism 5. Negotiating Membership for an Adaptation to Colonization: The Gang 6. The Only Locotes Standing: The Persistence of Gang Ideals 7. Barrio Empowerment as a Strategy for Transcending Gangs Conclusion Notes References Index

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Book SynopsisThis book is the first to investigate all aspects of sexual crimes and the policy and management initiatives developed to address them from a transnational, global perspectiveTrade ReviewThis book presents various forms and contexts in which sexual crime takes place and how international perspectives on sexuality, human rights, and moral and legal principles provide a global framework. The latter is likely to expand and enrich students' understanding of sex crimes and appreciation of how local conditions shape sexual crimes and communities' responses to them. The book introduces students to the global range of sex offenses, sexual deviance, and sexual violence, presenting the many forms these behaviors take, the diverse contexts in which they occur, the international approaches to the manifestation of sex offenses, and the policies that address them. -- Edna Erez, University of Illinois at Chicago Sex Crimes provides a welcome new perspective on much discussed yet often poorly understood themes. The editors successfully analyze the complexity of sex crimes beyond the emotive outrage that some, not other, sex crimes elicit in the public eye. Instead, they propose a transnational framework to look at such crimes, exploring legal approaches as well as policies of treatment, prevention, and support. The excellent and diverse presentation of case studies and contexts, from trafficking to war crimes, animal rights, and masculinity studies, helps highlight links between and disruptions in the way sex crimes are seen and dealt with in international and domestic law and policy. A must read for anyone interested in sex crimes and the transnational. -- Jelke Boesten, King's College London A good read and a good introduction to the field... Highly recommended. Choice An essential read for anyone interested in gaining a more complete and global perspective on sexual violence. Journal of Aggression, Maltreatment and TraumaTable of ContentsPart I. Foundational Chapters Introduction, by Alissa R. Ackerman and Rich Furman 1. The Movement of Sexual Content and Sex Crimes from the Local to the Transnational, by Jay S. Albanese 2. What Is a "Sex Crime"? An Examination of the Various Definitions of Rape Across Countries, by Lisa L. Sample and Rita Augustyn 3. The Use of Masculinities in the Understanding and Treatment of Male Sexual Offenders, by Alissa R. Ackerman, Rich Furman, Jeffrey W. Cohen, Eric Madfis, and Michelle Sanchez 4. A World of Hurt: An International Look at Intimate Partner Violence, by Elicka S. Peterson-Sparks Part II. Sex Trafficking in a Transnational World 5. Global Sex Trafficking Overview: Facts, Myths, and Debates, by Mary Hiquan Zhou 6. INGOs and the UN Trafficking Protocol, by Charles Anthony Smith and Cynthia Florentino 7. Sex Work and Agency: Decriminalization of Prostitution, by Cathy Nguyen, Rich Furman, and Alissa R. Ackerman Part III. Examples and Contexts of Transnational Sex Crimes 8. Sexual Violence Against Political Prisoners: An Examination of Empirical Evidence in El Salvador and Peru, by Michele Leiby 9. Conflict and Postconflict Sexual Violence in Africa: Case Studies of Liberia, Northern Uganda, and Eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, by Helen Liebling 10. Donor Dollars and Ministerial Mindsets: Constraints on NGO Responses to Rape in Cambodia, by Catherine Burns and Kathleen Daly 11. Sexual Abuse Within Institutional Contexts, by Anne-Marie McAlinden 12. Child Sexual Abuse in the Catholic Church, by Karen J. Terry 13. Sexual Violence By and Against Trans People, by Phoenix J. Freeman 14. The Sexual Abuse of Animals, by Jennifer Maher List of Contributors Index

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"As a disability history, the book excels. . . . Disability Rights and Religious Liberty in Education achieves its goal of creating a comprehensive account of Zobrest that considers disability rights, history, and constitutional law." --Journal of Church and State"The definitive history of the landmark US Supreme Court case Zobrest v. Catalina Foothills School District 1993 . . . This is a great volume for legal scholars, families of special needs children, and school administrators. . . . Highly recommended." --Choice"An excellent job of telling the story of the Zobrests . . . Disability Rights and Religious Liberty in Education has so much to recommend it, both in its fascinating topic and its nuanced engagement with it." --H-Net Reviews

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Coppola on criminal law? Streep on Libel? Capra on Constitutional Law? Denvir argues that ... popular films both reflect and shape our received myths about our most cherished legal institutions... Sit down with a box of popcorn, some Junior Mints, and Legal Reelism to find out what the Duke has to teach us about law and order in America." -- Harvard Law Review

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Book SynopsisIn 1988, Sandi and Larry Zobrest sued a suburban Tucson, Arizona, school district that had denied their hearing-impaired son a taxpayer-funded interpreter in his Roman Catholic high school. The Catalina Foothills School District argued that providing a public resource for a private, religious school created an unlawful crossover between church and state. The Zobrests, however, claimed that the district had infringed on both their First Amendment right to freedom of religion and the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA). Bruce J. Dierenfield and David A. Gerber use the Zobrests'' story to examine the complex history and jurisprudence of disability accommodation and educational mainstreaming. They look at the family''s effort to acquire educational resources for their son starting in early childhood and the choices the Zobrests made to prepare him for life in the hearing world rather than the deaf community. Dierenfield and Gerber also analyze the thorny church-stateTrade Review"As a disability history, the book excels. . . . Disability Rights and Religious Liberty in Education achieves its goal of creating a comprehensive account of Zobrest that considers disability rights, history, and constitutional law." --Journal of Church and State"The definitive history of the landmark US Supreme Court case Zobrest v. Catalina Foothills School District 1993 . . . This is a great volume for legal scholars, families of special needs children, and school administrators. . . . Highly recommended." --Choice"An excellent job of telling the story of the Zobrests . . . Disability Rights and Religious Liberty in Education has so much to recommend it, both in its fascinating topic and its nuanced engagement with it." --H-Net Reviews

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"[Harmon] provides an informative context behind the 1978 Oliphant v. Suquamish decision, which removed tribal jurisdictions over non-Indians. This background elucidates the history of tribal jurisdiction over non-Indians, numerous court decisions favoring tribal sovereignty, the evolution of Indian-issue lawyers, tribal decision makers, the place of activists in the campaigns for sovereignty, and case studies of both the Quinault and Suquamish reservation issues. Students of policy and law will benefit from the extensive analysis of the Oliphant case, which includes plausible alternative approaches that might have made the tribal position more effective." * Choice *"Reclaiming the Reservation should be essential reading for anyone interested in federal Indian law and policy andis useful for those who want to know more about how historians and judges tell stories about the past." * Western Historical Quarterly *"Like all good historiography, the story is rich in people with big ideas and chutzpah who beat their heads against convention and established institutions...Reclaiming the Reservation gives them proper recognition as the yeast that gave western Washington tribes the confidence to reassert their cultural and political identities and reclaim collective power in the twentieth century." * Native American and Indigenous Studies Journal *"[T]his clearly written and detailed book... is much more than the story of one lost case. It also documents the ongoing activism and ingenuity of the Quinault and the Suquamish communities and shows, most importantly, what happened outside of the courtroom—in congressional hearings, forests, universities, tribal offices, beaches, intertribal meetings, conferences, and fishing grounds." * Pacific Historical Review *"Reclaiming the Reservation offers an unmatched synopsis of Native American sovereignty cases in a rich historical narrative that emphasizes Indigenous activism. Harmon moves seamlessly between local and national efforts, successfully articulating legal arguments in a human context... [S]imply an exceptional contribution that makes plain an otherwise-complicated field." * Journal of American History *"[A] surprisingly well-balanced look at how tribes have weathered colonialism as tribal nations continue to examine ways to affirm their sovereignty." * Tribal College Journal *"[T]his body of work opens critical intertribal dialogue with Native readers across Indian country…[A] pivotal Native American studies work that boldly demands the inclusion of community experiences outside the courts as a manner to revisit, rewrite, and re-right legal and policy analyses." * American Indian Culture and Research Journal *"Although Harmon has worked as an academic for the past few decades, teaching in the American Indian studies program at the University of Washington, she previously represented various tribes in Washington state, including a stint as the staff attorney for the Suquamish. Harmon makes clear from the outset that she is by no means a neutral, dispassionate observer of the history she writes about... [and she] builds her case through a careful study of Quinault and Suquamish tribal histories." * American Historical Review *

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"[Harmon] provides an informative context behind the 1978 Oliphant v. Suquamish decision, which removed tribal jurisdictions over non-Indians. This background elucidates the history of tribal jurisdiction over non-Indians, numerous court decisions favoring tribal sovereignty, the evolution of Indian-issue lawyers, tribal decision makers, the place of activists in the campaigns for sovereignty, and case studies of both the Quinault and Suquamish reservation issues. Students of policy and law will benefit from the extensive analysis of the Oliphant case, which includes plausible alternative approaches that might have made the tribal position more effective." * Choice *"Reclaiming the Reservation should be essential reading for anyone interested in federal Indian law and policy andis useful for those who want to know more about how historians and judges tell stories about the past." * Western Historical Quarterly *"Like all good historiography, the story is rich in people with big ideas and chutzpah who beat their heads against convention and established institutions...Reclaiming the Reservation gives them proper recognition as the yeast that gave western Washington tribes the confidence to reassert their cultural and political identities and reclaim collective power in the twentieth century." * Native American and Indigenous Studies Journal *"[T]his clearly written and detailed book... is much more than the story of one lost case. It also documents the ongoing activism and ingenuity of the Quinault and the Suquamish communities and shows, most importantly, what happened outside of the courtroom—in congressional hearings, forests, universities, tribal offices, beaches, intertribal meetings, conferences, and fishing grounds." * Pacific Historical Review *"Reclaiming the Reservation offers an unmatched synopsis of Native American sovereignty cases in a rich historical narrative that emphasizes Indigenous activism. Harmon moves seamlessly between local and national efforts, successfully articulating legal arguments in a human context... [S]imply an exceptional contribution that makes plain an otherwise-complicated field." * Journal of American History *"[A] surprisingly well-balanced look at how tribes have weathered colonialism as tribal nations continue to examine ways to affirm their sovereignty." * Tribal College Journal *"[T]his body of work opens critical intertribal dialogue with Native readers across Indian country…[A] pivotal Native American studies work that boldly demands the inclusion of community experiences outside the courts as a manner to revisit, rewrite, and re-right legal and policy analyses." * American Indian Culture and Research Journal *"Although Harmon has worked as an academic for the past few decades, teaching in the American Indian studies program at the University of Washington, she previously represented various tribes in Washington state, including a stint as the staff attorney for the Suquamish. Harmon makes clear from the outset that she is by no means a neutral, dispassionate observer of the history she writes about... [and she] builds her case through a careful study of Quinault and Suquamish tribal histories." * American Historical Review *

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Book SynopsisIntends to revive the people's right to petition the government for a redress of grievances as a key part of First Amendment jurisprudence.

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Book SynopsisHow do we bring the law into line with people's psychological experience?Trade ReviewWinner of the American Psychoanalytic Association's 2018 Courage to Dream Book PrizeWinner of the Sharon Harris 2018 Book Award, given by The University of Connecticut for the best book published in the humanities. "Anne Dailey takes up the controversial relation of law and psychoanalysis in a book of great cogency and importance. She goes far beyond the standard quarrels that divide the two fields and makes a reasoned and forceful case for psychoanalysis as coming to the aid of the law—not opposing it—in a richer account of human autonomy and responsibility."—Peter Brooks, Princeton University, author of Troubling Confessions: Speaking Guilt in Law and Literature"In this wise and wide-ranging book, Anne Dailey breathes fresh life into the psychoanalytic study of law. She makes the best case I know for the continuing relevance to law of the humanistic discipline of psychoanalysis and reminds us of the humility that must always accompany the law's fearful exercise of power when it relies on a conception of human agency that the psychoanalytic discovery of the unconscious teaches us is incomplete."—Anthony Kronman, Sterling Professor of Law, Yale Law School"In this masterpiece of scholarship, Anne Dailey argues that legal theory and our system of justice have been missing an essential ingredient: how the human mind works. Her synthesis of psychoanalysis and the law offers nothing short of a paradigm shift in how we approach some of the most challenging and controversial legal questions of our time."—Jordan Smoller, Professor Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School and author of The Other Side of Normal “With a rare combination of erudition, insight, and vision, Anne Dailey compellingly argues for a reintegration of legal and psychoanalytic thinking about human behavior. This is a provocative, historically grounded study with great contemporary relevance.”—Susanna Blumenthal, author of Law and the Modern Mind: Consciousness and Responsibility in American Legal Culture

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Book SynopsisTrade Review“Jack Balkin has gathered a terrific group of constitutional scholars to debate a fundamental issue: same-sex marriage. This is a great introduction to the confounding question of how Americans should interpret their Constitution in today's world.”—Geoffrey R. Stone, author of Sex and the Constitution"By including a wide spectrum of voices and social movement perspectives, this book provides an extraordinary case study of how constitutional law and politics can produce starkly different social meanings of such fundamental concepts as marriage and equality."—Nan D. Hunter, Georgetown University“This engaging and thought-provoking book features a wide range of scholarly views about marriage, constitutional liberty and equality, and the roads not taken in Obergefell.”— Mary L. Bonauto, attorney at GLBTQ Legal Advocates & Defenders (GLAD)

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Book SynopsisA sweeping and highly readable work on the evolution of America's domestic and global drug war How can the United States chart a path forward in the war on drugs? In Drugs and Thugs, Russell Crandall uncovers the full history of this war that has lasted more than a century. As a scholar and a high-level national security advisor to both the George W. Bush and Obama administrations, he provides an essential view of the economic, political, and human impacts of U.S. drug policies. Backed by extensive research, lucid and unbiased analysis of policy, and his own personal experiences, Crandall takes readers from Afghanistan to Colombia, to Peru and Mexico, to Miami International Airport and the border crossing between El Paso and Juarez to trace the complex social networks that make up the drug trade and drug consumption. Through historically driven stories, Crandall reveals how the war on drugs has evolved to address mass incarceration, the opioid epidemic, the legalization and medical useTrade Review“Densely and colorfully detailed as well as politically informed and astute. Crandall’s writing throughout is knowing and witty. His candid policy assessment is both forceful and nuanced.” —Jonathan Stevenson, Senior Fellow for US Defense at the International Institute for Strategic Studies“The national challenge of substance abuse disorder fueled by opioids has thrust the Drug War back into the newspapers and onto policymaking agendas. Drugs and Thugs distills the decades of experience and hard lessons learned into remarkably readable and endlessly informative fashion. This is required reading.”—Denis McDonough, former White House Chief of Staff, Notre Dame University“Russell Crandall is one of our sharpest scholars of the U.S.-Latin America relationship. In this book, he tackles complex and controversial subjects, and his conclusions will be sure to provoke people on all sides of the debate. But this book is essential precisely because it challenges so many common conceptions about America's War on Drugs.”—Hal Brands, Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS)

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Book SynopsisHow to repair the dysfunction at the Supreme Court in a way that cuts across partisan ideologiesTrade Review“Tang masterfully shows how overconfidence bias among U.S. Supreme Court justices has imperiled this once hallowed institution. A must read on where the Court went wrong, and how to fix it.”—Franita Tolson, author of In Congress We Trust?: Enforcing Voting Rights from the Founding to the Jim Crow Era“Tang’s important book explains that the Supreme Court’s errors often stem from its overconfidence. He offers an innovative solution: justices should pursue the outcome that is likely to cause the least harm.”—Erwin Chemerinsky, author of Worse than Nothing: The Dangerous Fallacy of Originalism“Aaron Tang has accomplished something extraordinary. He has written a smart and original book about how the Supreme Court should do its job. It is almost impossible to say something truly new about constitutional law that makes a contribution. Tang has done that with his least harm principle.”—Eric Segall, author of Originalism as Faith

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Book SynopsisMartha Minow is a voice of moral clarity: a lawyer arguing for forgiveness, a scholar arguing for evidence, a person arguing for compassion.Jill LeporeTrade Review"May one be pardoned and retain the offense?‚ (Hamlet)... For what offenses and under what conditions should a just legal system offer forgiveness? This is a legal minefield through which When Should Law Forgive? provides an indispensable guide." -- Stephen Greenblatt

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Book SynopsisDisruption of a construction project is of key concern to the contractor as any delay to the project will involve the contractor in financial loss, unless those losses can be recovered from the employer.Trade Review“This book provides valuable guidance on how to save time and therefore money by avoiding -- or at least coping -- with the factors that cause expensive delays, or disruption on construction and engineering projects. Certainly its sage advice on dispute resolution should prove indispensable to everyone from architects and construction lawyers to project managers and quantity surveyors.” (Flickr.com, 7 August 2015)Table of ContentsPreface vii Acknowledgements ix 1 Introduction 1 1.1 Introduction 1 1.2 The aims of this book 3 1.3 The SCL Protocol 3 1.4 Conclusion 9 2 Contracts and Case Law 11 2.1 Introduction 11 2.2 Contracts 13 2.3 Case law 18 3 Planning, Programmes and Record Keeping 61 3.1 Background and history of planning 61 3.2 Planning and programming 64 3.3 Programme submission, review and acceptance 78 3.4 Programme updates and revisions 84 3.5 Progress records and other record keeping 91 4 Delay, Disruption and Causation 99 4.1 Delay 99 4.2 Disruption 107 4.3 Causation 118 5 Loss of Productivity 123 5.1 Introduction 123 5.2 Productivity and efficiency 124 5.3 Common causes of loss of efficiency 128 5.4 Methods of productivity measurement 133 6 Acceleration and Mitigation 153 6.1 Acceleration 153 6.2 Mitigation 164 Appendix 1 Definitions and Glossary 169 Appendix 2 Levels of Programmes 177 Appendix 3 SCL Protocol; Guidance Clauses on ‘Disruption’ 187 Index 191

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Book SynopsisA simple, practical guide to help not-for-profit organizations lobby local, state, and federal legislative bodies Only a fraction of not-for-profit organizations take advantage of the legislative process in representing their members and their organization''s goals. Yet lobbying is an important way to gain visibility, attract members, and find new sources of funding. This book is designed to help the modern not-for-profit develop and implement an effective lobbying program without jeopardizing its tax-exempt status. Dr. Pidgeon and the contributers he has assembled provide in-depth analysis of all the major issues of the lobbying process, including: * The basics of lobbying * The structure of local, state, and federal government * Using the mass media to spread the message * Political action committees (PACs) * Marketing and communication strategies * Strategic partnerships * The legal aspects of government affairsTrade Review"Pidgeon writes that the goal for the book is to provide a guide for nonprofit leaders on launching or refining a government affairs program. By any reasonable measure, the book is wildly successful. No one charting a course through the legislative wilderness should be without Pidgeon's well-crafted map." (Philanthropy Magazine, 10/01)Table of ContentsPreface. Foreword. THE LEGISLATIVE/GOVERNMENT AFFAIRS PROCESS AND THE NOT-FOR-PROFIT (W. Pidgeon). The Significant Role That the Legislative Process Can Play in Fulfilling the Mission of a Not-for-Profit (D. Kushner). Introduction to the Legislative Process (W. Horn). SUCCESSFUL METHODS USED BY NOT-FOR-PROFITS (W. Pidgeon). Achieving Impact through Political Involvement (J. Kalavitinos). Adding Light to the Heat: Using the Mass Media to Support Your Issues (R. Story). Developing Partnerships for Greater Success (R. Goodwin). The Use of Outside Legislative Consultants: When and How to Hire a Lobbyist. (J. Chwat). THE LEGAL ASPECTS OF GOVERNMENT AFFAIRS AND LOBBYING (W. Pidgeon). The Legal Aspects of Government Affairs and Lobbying. (B. Hopkins). DEVELOPING A STRATEGIC PLAN FOR A NOT-FOR-PROFIT (W. Pidgeon). A Strategic Plan for Success (W. Pidgeon). Ten Fundamental Keys to a Successful Government Affairs Program. Reference Guide to Organizational Support. The Accompanying CD-ROM and How to Use It. End Notes. Index.

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Book SynopsisThe classic ethnography on how implicit bias impacts black male students' identitiesTrade Review“When Ann Ferguson published Bad Boys in 2000, it marked a watershed moment in educational research. The book’s insights on the role of schools in constructing, negotiating, and pathologizing Black masculinity were immediately recognized as a towering intellectual achievement. Twenty years later, as the academy and broader public finally begins to seriously engage the ‘school to prison pipeline’ discourse that Ferguson helped to advance and complicate, we still have much to learn from this theoretically rigorous and methodologically rich text. With a compelling new afterword and a brilliant new bibliographic essay, this new edition of Bad Boys is as urgent, relevant, and generative as the original was two decades ago. Anyone interested in the educational lives of Black boys owes an intellectual debt to Ann Ferguson. This book is a reminder of how large that debt is.” —Marc Lamont Hill, Temple University“Teachers and future teachers should read Ferguson's book, and so should all of those who are still unconvinced that our schools treat children differently when they are black.” —Anthropology & Education Quarterly“[Ferguson] leaves no doubt about the structural sources of schooling tensions and contradictions as she analyzes the complexity of Black masculinity in schools. These are racialized and gendered lessons for educational policy makers, classroom teachers, school disciplinary enforcers, and community members who want to make sense of the early school experiences of Black males.” —Gender & Society“Ferguson succeeds in providing an intersectional analysis of how race, gender, and class dynamics combine in the institutional practices and treatment of the African-American boys she follows. . . . Bad Boys is an engaging and important book that should be required reading for scholars and students studying education, race relations, criminal justice, social reproduction, or child psychology.” —American Journal of Sociology“Bad Boys is an incisive critique of the ways in which public schools help to create and shape perceptions of black masculinity. Beyond its rich ethnographic details, Ann Ferguson has crafted a compelling and insightful piece of scholarship. . . . Her work has widespread appeal and is readily applicable and informative for fields throughout the social sciences, especially criminal justice and sociology.” —Criminal Justice Review

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Book SynopsisProvides a critical cultural history of net neutrality that reveals how this intentionally ‘boring’ world of internet infrastructure and regulation hides a fascinating and pivotal sphere of power, with lessons for communication and media scholars, activists, and anyone interested in technology and politics.Table of Contents List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction The Broadband Battle Chapter 1 Democratic Communications Infrastructure, Discourse, Policy, and Advocacy Chapter 2 Defining Broadband Chapter 3 Clash of Titans or Best of Frenemies? Chapter 4 Nuclear Net Neutrality Chapter 5 The Title II Turn Chapter 6 Organizing for Net Neutrality Conclusion Boring Points Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisChallenges the centrality of sovereignty in our political and juridical imaginations. Creatively bringing together constitutional, political, and aesthetic theory, Stacy Douglas argues that museums and constitutions invite visitors to identify with a prescribed set of political constituencies based on national, ethnic, or anthropocentric premises.Trade ReviewCurating Community makes a really significant and exciting contribution to existing literatures. Douglas is at her best when engaging in critiques of other thinkers such as Christodoulidis and Cornell. The unexpected link that Douglas makes between constitutions and museums is critically important because it directly links law and culture in ways that are not usually noted or thought about, but which have vital effects on our political and aesthetic lives."" - James Martel, San Francisco State University

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Book SynopsisIt is rarely possible to write biographies of lay people who lived in the Middle Ages. While accounts of clerical, royal, and military life are many, the wider populace has remained in relative obscurity. In Clean Hands and Rough Justice, David S. Chambers and Trevor Dean present an extraordinary and previously unknown character from Renaissance Italy, Beltramino Cusadri (ca. 1425-1500).

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Book SynopsisLegal thought in America has always focused on the rules rather than on the persons affected by the rules. This text aims to restore the balance by taking a person-centred view of the law. The author shows how even great jurists have chosen the masks of the law over persons.Trade Review"A classic work, highly influential, widely cited." - Martin Shapiro, author of Seeking the Center "I am struck by the timelessness of the work. I have always thought of it as a great book. What I now see is that it is a book that will never be out of date. The reason is simple: it brings a great legal mind of our own time into conversation with the greatest legal minds of the past." - Robert P. George, author of The Clash of Orthodoxies "Persons and Masks of the Law is a brilliant conception, beautifully realized. I congratulate the author on this sparely and wholly expressed idea." - Robert K. Merton, Columbia University "A beautifully written and probing discussion by an eminent legal philosopher. Professor Noonan strips the facade from judge-made law, and exposes the often unpleasant reality that citizens must confront daily." - Norman Dorsen, New York University School of Law "Noonan's analyses challenge even as they charm; simultaneously they constitute both pieces of creative scholarship and literary gems. I have read and re-read this slim volume and have strongly recommended it to students as an example of how an imaginative scholar can start with what seems commonplace and force us to reexamine our own conclusions - and occasionally values." - Walter F. Murphy, editor of American Constitutional InterpretationTable of ContentsPreface to the 2002 Edition Foreword 1. THE MASKS OF THE PARTICIPANTS 2. VIRGINIAN LIBERATORS 3. THE OVERLORD OF AMERICAN LAW AND THE SOVEREIGN OF COSTA RICA 4. THE PASSENGERS OF PALSGRAF 5. THE ALLIANCE OF LAW AND HISTORY Notes and References Index

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Book SynopsisA story of fits and starts that provides a chronicle of the history of wine in the United States told through the lens of the law. It explains how laws shape the wine industry in such areas as pricing and taxation, licensing, appellations, health claims and warnings, labeling, and domestic and international commerce.Trade Review"The legal machinations of wine, described here, are a hoot." Miami Herald "A thorough consideration of American wine's legal history." SF Chronicle "Provides the definitive background for understanding the competing legal, political, economic, and social forces shaping the ongoing evolution of America's wine culture." The World Of Fine Wine "Highly readable ... Should be a must-read for anyone who wants to produce or sell wine in this country." San Francisco Chronicle "A splendid volume... This wonderful book should be agreeable to a great many palates." Choice "Very engaging." Bookforum "Illuminating, provocative..." A Best Book of 2009 Wine & Spirits Magazine "Highly recommended." -- Charles Ludington Law & History Review "An engaging style that makes learning how law and wine have intertwined throughout this country's history an enlightening educational journey." Wine Spectator "A fascinating work." California GrapevineTable of ContentsList of Illustrations Wine Is Life: A Foreword by Margrit Biever Mondavi Acknowledgments Note Introduction 1. Temperance 2. National Prohibition 3. Solving Problems Past 4. Transforming Wine in American Culture Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisAt the age of eighteen, a shy and timid Mohandas Gandhi leaves his Gujarati home for a life on his own. At forty-five, a confident and fearless Gandhi arrives back in India ready to boldly lead his country to freedom. What transforms him? The law.Trade Review"An excellent study of Gandhi's 20 years as a young attorney in South Africa." Washington Post "This well-written book is the first scholarly work to connect Gandhi's nonviolent civil disobedience to the failure of the courts in racialized South Africa." American Historical Review "A very powerful and original contribution to Gandhian studies." -- Nigel Collett Asian Review of Books "DiSalvo, through painstaking work in the legal archives of South Africa and in the archives of the Sabarmati Ashram, has written the first account of Gandhi's life in law... The Man Before the Mahatma is without doubt among the finest in a long biographical tradition." -- Tridip Suhrud The Caravan: A Journal of Politics and Culture "South Africa was ... a profoundly racist society... This inescapable reality forced on Gandhi a response. Here Charles DiSalvo's book, examining Gandhi's life as a lawyer, is particularly worthwhile." -- Tim Stafford Books And Culture "Among the more arresting works on this phase of Gandhi's life ... an astonishingly detailed and revealing study of Gandhi's law practice." -- Vinay Lal Ufahamu: A Journal of African Studies "Charles DiSalvo's inspiring M. K. Gandhi, Attorney at Law: The Man Before the Mahatma ... offers a detailed and deeply thoughtful study of the ambiguous place of law in the life of a man who led millions of people to freedom." -- Frank R. Herrmann AmericaTable of ContentsIntroduction 1. Dispatched to London 2. The Barrister Who Couldn't Speak 3. An Abundant and Regular Supply of Labour 4. Dada Abdulla's White Elephant 5. Not a White Barrister 6. Formation Lessons 7. Waller's Question 8. A Public Man 9. To Maritzburg 10. Moth and Flame 11. Sacrifice 12. Transition and the Transvaal 13. No Bed of Roses 14. Disobedience 15. Courthouse to Jailhouse 16. Malpractice 17. Courtroom as Laboratory 18. Closing Arguments Mohandas K. Gandhi Chronology Abbreviations Notes Sources Acknowledgments

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Book SynopsisDiscussions on U.S. border enforcement have traditionally focused on the highly charged U.S.-Mexico boundary, inadvertently obscuring U.S.-Caribbean relations and the concerning asylum and detention policies unfolding there. Boats, Borders, and Bases offers the missing, racialized histories of the U.S. detention system and its relationship to the interception and detention of Haitian and Cuban migrants. It argues that the U.S. response to Cold War Caribbean migrations actually established the legal and institutional basis for contemporary migration and detention and border deterrent practices in the U.S. This book promises to make a significant contribution to a truer understanding of the history and geography of the U.S. detention system overall.Trade Review"Although this book makes a much-needed contribution to critical geography, migration, race, criminology, and legal scholarship, it also nicely complements recent work-like From Deportation to Prison: The Politics of Immigration Enforcement in Post-Civil Rights America, which seek to identify the rise of migrant detention throughout the US. This book takes that task one step further by theorizing spaces and processes of deterrence and detention beyond the interior of the US while making an even broader contribution to research on multijurisdictional patchworks." * International Criminal Justice Review *"Long-neglected by scholars of mass incarceration and migration alike, the U.S. immigration detention system is attracting increasing concern and media attention in the Trump era. Much of this coverage, however, lacks historical context. A majority of scholarship on migrant detention focuses on the explosive growth of the system since 9/11 and on the US-Mexico border as a primary enforcement site. Boats, Borders, and Bases contributes to an emerging body of scholarship that fills gaps in these narratives by illuminating the deeper and less visible Cold War and Caribbean roots of the contemporary detention system." * Criminal Law & Criminal Justice Books *"A book with an urgent ethical and legal purpose." * Religious Studies Review *Table of Contents Illustrations Acknowledgments Abbreviations Introduction PART ONE. RACE AND THE COLD WAR GEOPOLITICS OF MIGRATION CONTROL 1. “America’s ‘Boat People’” Cold War Geopolitics of Refuge 2. Militarizing Migration The Politics of Asylum and Deterrence PART TWO. BUILDING THE WORLD’S LARGEST DETENTION SYSTEM 3. “Not a Prison” Building a Deportation Hub in Oakdale, Louisiana 4. “Uncle Sam Has a Long Arm” War and the Making of Deterrent Landscapes PART THREE. EXPANDING THE WORLD’S LARGEST DETENTION SYSTEM 5. Safe Haven The Creation of an Off shore Detention Archipelago 6. Onshore Expansion Consolidating Deterrence through Criminalization and Expulsion 7. Post-9/11 Policing Back to the Future Coda Notes References Index

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Book SynopsisLaw and Society Todayis a problem-oriented survey of sociolegal studies, with a unique emphasis on recent historical and political developments. Whereas other texts focus heavily on criminal procedure, this book foregrounds the significant changes of the 2000s and 2010s, including neoliberalism, migration, multiculturalism, and the large influence of law and economics in law teaching, policy debates, and judicial decision-making. Each chapter presents key concepts, real-world applications, and hypothetical problems that allow students to test comprehension. With an integrated approach to theory and practice and written in an accessible tone, this text helps students recognize the dynamic forces that shape the way the law is constructed and implemented, particularly how law drives social inequality.Table of ContentsPreface Acknowledgments UNIT 1 Introduction Chapter 1: Introduction: Legal and Social Change Chapter 2: Where Law Meets Society Chapter 3: Comparative Legal Communities UNIT 2 Legal Constructions of Society Chapter 4: History Chapter 5: Family Chapter 6: Place Chapter 7: Religion Chapter 8: Class, Race, and Gender UNIT 3 Social Constructions of Law Chapter 9: The Socialization of Lawyers Chapter 10: Criminal and Civil Justice Chapter 11: Justice and Popular Culture UNIT 4 Special Topics of Advanced Sociolegal Change Chapter 12: Art Forms Chapter 13: Science and Technology Chapter 14: Nature Notes List of Cases Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThe first critical analysis of how Whiteness drove the opioid crisis. In the past two decades, media images of the surprisingly white new face of the US opioid crisis abounded. But why was the crisis so white? Some argued that skyrocketing overdoses were deaths of despair signaling deeper socioeconomic anguish in white communities. Whiteout makes the counterintuitive case that the opioid crisis was the product of white racial privilege as well as despair. Anchored by interviews, data, and riveting firsthand narratives from three leading expertsan addiction psychiatrist, a policy advocate, and a drug historianWhiteout reveals how a century of structural racism in drug policy, and in profit-oriented medical industries led to mass white overdose deaths. The authors implicate racially segregated health care systems, the racial assumptions of addiction scientists, and relaxed regulation of pharmaceutical marketing to white consumers. Whiteout is an unflinching account of how racial capitalism is toxic for all Americans.Trade Review"Psychiatrist and anthropologist Hansen, policy advocate and sociologist Netherland, and historian Herzberg richly scrutinise drug use and race along multiple axes that include medicine, public policy, and history to emerge with a powerful portrait of precisely how the social construct of race and systemic racism have both created and blinded us to the unequal treatment of Black and white drug users. Through anthropology, personal histories, and nuanced data analysis this troika engages in textured, deeply researched, scholarship." * Lancet *Table of ContentsContents List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Time Line PART ONE. TECHNOLOGIES OF WHITENESS IN THE CLINIC, THE STATEHOUSE, AND THE ARCHIVE 1. Pharmakon of Racial Poisons and Cures (as told by Helena Hansen, psychiatrist-anthropologist) 2. How to See Whiteness (as told by all three authors) 3. Good Samaritans in the War on Drugs That Wasn’t (as told by Jules Netherland, policy analyst) 4. “Mother’s Little Helpers”: White Narcotics in the Medicine Cabinet (as told by David Herzberg, historian) PART TWO. THREE OPIODS: RACIAL BIOGRAPHIES 5. OxyContin’s Racial Precision 6. Buprenorphine’s Silent White Revolution 7. The Housewife’s Return to Heroin (and Forays into Fentanyl) 8. From Racial Capitalism to Biosocial Justice Glossary Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisTable of ContentsContents List of Illustrations List of Tables Preface and Acknowledgments Introduction 1 • Triggers and Vulnerabilities 2 • Petri Dish 3 • Bottleneck 4 • Elixir 5 • Incubator 6 • The House Always Wins 7 • Fear and Loathing 8 • The Next Plague Notes Index

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Book SynopsisTrade Review“Hatcher, a professor of law and advocate for social justice, delivers a well-researched, scholarly, disturbing synthesis of social history and legal treatise, tracking the long-term monetization of the justice system. . . . A useful, bleak exposé of a little-understood legal labyrinth constructed to harm the most vulnerable.” * Kirkus Reviews *"Hatcher meticulously reveals a nefarious, unethical operation within juvenile and criminal justice systems. . . . This book will serve as a valuable contribution to many fields and provides an insightful resource for educators, families, and communities." * CHOICE *"Hatcher’s Injustice, Inc. provides an entirely new line of inquiry examining the hidden internal juvenile legal practices that center on capturing money— from federal funds to individuals’ income and assets. This book provides a dizzying eye opening deep dive into the juvenile legal system to highlight the strategies and practices which courts, police, prosecutors, probation offices, and confinement institutions use to generate revenue for state and local jurisdictions and even for personal profit." * Social Forces *“Daniel L. Hatcher, in his book Injustice, Inc., describes in detail a frankly apartheid system finely designed to milk every source of revenue from poor children.. He describes ‘factory-like operations’, ‘industrialization of harm’, ‘child support mercenaries’. He quotes official contracts that describe foster children as ‘units’, children as ‘data match algorithms’ for ‘predictive analytics’, and children as a ‘revenue generating mechanism.’ Paraphrasing poet Walt Whitman: ‘Out of the cradle endlessly rocking … [to] death, death, death, death.’” * Counterpunch *Table of ContentsContents Acknowledgments Introduction 1. Crumbling Foundations of Justice 2. Juvenile Courts Monetizing Child Removals 3. Judicial Child Support Factory 4. Prosecuting the Poor for Profit 5. The Probation Business 6. Policing and Profiting from the Poor 7. Bodies in the Beds: The Business of Jailing Children and the Poor 8. Racialized Harm of the Injustice Enterprise Conclusion Notes Selected Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisTrade Review“The truest true crime you’ll ever read, and when it’s not scaring you, it will make your blood boil.” * BookTrib *"An essential read for anyone interested in criminal justice reform and for those who want to understand the human cost of wrongful conviction." * Splash Magazines *"Well-researched and accessible." * Arts Fuse *"This important book spotlights the work of various Innocence Projects to seek justice for those wrongly convicted and highlights urgently needed reforms. . . . Highly recommended." * CHOICE *Table of ContentsForeword by Barry Scheck Introduction 1. You Hired the Wrong Lawyer (Pleas with No Bargain) 2. You Live in the Country or the City 3. You Are in a Relationship and Live with Someone Who Is Murdered 4. You (Kind of) Look like Other People in the World 5. You Get Confused When You Are Tired and Hungry, and People Yell at You 6. You Have or Care for a Sick Child 7. You Got a Jury That Was Blinded by "Science" 8. You Work with Children or Let Them in Your House 9. Someone Lies about You 10. You Are Poor and/or a Person of Color Conclusion Notes Index

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Book SynopsisEssentially a Mother argues that the law of pregnancy and motherhood has been overrun by sexist ideology. Courts have held that a pregnant woman's nine months of gestation hardly count in her claim to parent the child she bears and that a man's brief moment of ejaculation matters more than a woman's labor. Armed with such dubious arguments, courts have stripped women of the right to abortion, treated surrogate mothers as mere vessels, and handed biological fatherseven those who became fathers through rapeautomatic rights over women and their children. In this incisive and groundbreaking book, Jennifer Hendricks argues that feminists must overthrow the skewed value system that subordinates women, devalues caregiving, and denies too many the right to parent.Trade Review"Comprehensive yet concise. . . . Essentially a Mother arrives just when we need a reminder that it is time to update the values at the basis of American law and that relational feminism shows us how to do it." * Jotwell *"Jennifer Hendricks has done us all a service by problematizing a legal framework that does not respect sexual difference between men and women. In doing so, she gives us the chance to restore both humanity and justice to our law." * Deseret News *Table of ContentsContents Introduction PART ONE SEX DIFFERENCE AND ACCOMMODATION 1 • Mothers at Work 2 • Fathers at Home 3 • What the Law Protects . . . 4 • . . . and Why PART TWO THE COLLAPSE OF THE CARETAKING 5 • Expanding Fathers’ Rights against Mothers 6 • Sidelining Inconvenient Fathers 7 • Leveling Down to Genes PART THREE A FEMINIST APPROACH 8 • How to Reason from the Body 9 • The Body and Beyond Conclusion Timeline of Cases Acknowledgments Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisEssentially a Mother argues that the law of pregnancy and motherhood has been overrun by sexist ideology. Courts have held that a pregnant woman's nine months of gestation hardly count in her claim to parent the child she bears and that a man's brief moment of ejaculation matters more than a woman's labor. Armed with such dubious arguments, courts have stripped women of the right to abortion, treated surrogate mothers as mere vessels, and handed biological fatherseven those who became fathers through rapeautomatic rights over women and their children. In this incisive and groundbreaking book, Jennifer Hendricks argues that feminists must overthrow the skewed value system that subordinates women, devalues caregiving, and denies too many the right to parent.Trade Review"Comprehensive yet concise. . . . Essentially a Mother arrives just when we need a reminder that it is time to update the values at the basis of American law and that relational feminism shows us how to do it." * Jotwell *"Jennifer Hendricks has done us all a service by problematizing a legal framework that does not respect sexual difference between men and women. In doing so, she gives us the chance to restore both humanity and justice to our law." * Deseret News *Table of ContentsContents Introduction PART ONE SEX DIFFERENCE AND ACCOMMODATION 1 • Mothers at Work 2 • Fathers at Home 3 • What the Law Protects . . . 4 • . . . and Why PART TWO THE COLLAPSE OF THE CARETAKING 5 • Expanding Fathers’ Rights against Mothers 6 • Sidelining Inconvenient Fathers 7 • Leveling Down to Genes PART THREE A FEMINIST APPROACH 8 • How to Reason from the Body 9 • The Body and Beyond Conclusion Timeline of Cases Acknowledgments Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisGetting the Runaround takes readers into the bureaucratic spaces of prisoner reentry, examining how returning citizens navigate the institutional circuitof parole offices, public assistance programs, rehabilitation facilities, shelters, and family courts. Drawing on three years of ethnographic fieldwork and forty-fivein-depth interviews with formerly incarcerated men returning to New York City, John M. Halushka argues that the very institutions charged with facilitating the transition from incarceration to community life perversely undermine reintegration by imposing a litany of bureaucratic obstacles. This runaroundis not merely a series of inconveniencesbut rather an extension of state punishment thatexacerbates material poverty and diminishescitizenship rights. By telling the stories of men caught in vicious cycles of poverty, bureaucratic processing, and social control, Halushka demonstrates the urgent need to shift reentry away from an austerity-driven, compliance-based framework Table of ContentsContents Preface Acknowledgments Introduction 1 • The Institutional Circuit of Prisoner Reentry 2 • Jumping through Hoops 3 • They Set You Up to Fail 4 • In Search of Respectability 5 • Becoming Professionally Poor 6 • Backsliding Conclusion: Citizenship and Social Justice in the Age of Mass Prisoner Reentry Notes References Index

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Book SynopsisStories of teen sexting scandals, cyberbullying, and image-based sexual abuse have become commonplace fixtures of the digital age, with many adults struggling to identify ways to monitor young people's digital engagement. In When Rape Goes Viral, Anna Gjika argues that rather than focusing on surveillance, we should examine such incidents for what they tell us about youth peer cultures and the gender norms and sexual ethics governing their interactions. Drawing from interviews with teens and high-profile cases of mediated juvenile sexual assault, Gjika exposes the deeply unequal and heteronormative power dynamics informing teens' intimate relationships and online practices, and she critically interrogates the role of digital cultures and broader social values in sanctioning abuse. The book also explores the consequences of social media and digital evidence for young victim-survivors and perpetrators of sexual assault, detailing the paradoxical capacities of technology for social and leTable of ContentsContents Acknowledgments Introduction 1 Understanding the Youth, Identity, and Technology Nexus 2 Missing Cultures of Consent: Gender Inequality, Digital Commodification, and Youth Ethics 3 A Gold Mine of Information? The Digital Trail in Sex Crimes 4 Navigating Justice: Young Survivors and the Harms of Image-Based Sexual Abuse 5 Beyond the Law: Sexual Violence and Justice Practices in Digital Spaces 6 Toward Harm Reduction and Prevention Conclusion Appendix: Methods Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisStories of teen sexting scandals, cyberbullying, and image-based sexual abuse have become commonplace fixtures of the digital age, with many adults struggling to identify ways to monitor young people's digital engagement. In When Rape Goes Viral, Anna Gjika argues that rather than focusing on surveillance, we should examine such incidents for what they tell us about youth peer cultures and the gender norms and sexual ethics governing their interactions. Drawing from interviews with teens and high-profile cases of mediated juvenile sexual assault, Gjika exposes the deeply unequal and heteronormative power dynamics informing teens' intimate relationships and online practices, and she critically interrogates the role of digital cultures and broader social values in sanctioning abuse. The book also explores the consequences of social media and digital evidence for young victim-survivors and perpetrators of sexual assault, detailing the paradoxical capacities of technology for social and leTable of ContentsContents Acknowledgments Introduction 1 Understanding the Youth, Identity, and Technology Nexus 2 Missing Cultures of Consent: Gender Inequality, Digital Commodification, and Youth Ethics 3 A Gold Mine of Information? The Digital Trail in Sex Crimes 4 Navigating Justice: Young Survivors and the Harms of Image-Based Sexual Abuse 5 Beyond the Law: Sexual Violence and Justice Practices in Digital Spaces 6 Toward Harm Reduction and Prevention Conclusion Appendix: Methods Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisA profound, compelling argument for abolition feminismto protect criminalized survivors of gender-based violence, we must dismantle the carceral system. Since the 1970s, anti-violence advocates have worked to make the legal system more responsive to gender-based violence. But greater state intervention in cases of intimate partner violence, rape, sexual assault, and trafficking has led to the arrest, prosecution, conviction, and incarceration of victims, particularly women of color and trans and gender-nonconforming people. Imperfect Victims argues that only dismantling the system will bring that punishment to an end. Amplifying the voices of survivors, including her own clients, abolitionist law professor Leigh Goodmark deftly guides readers on a step-by-step journey through the criminalization of survival. Abolition feminism reveals the possibility of a just world beyond the carceral state, which is fundamentally unable to respond to, let alone remedy, harm. As Imperfect Victims shows, abolition feminism is the only politics and practice that can undo the indescribable damage inflicted on survivors by the very system purporting to protect them. Trade Review"An essential read for anyone who wants a deeper understanding of the concept of abolition feminism and supports the rights of all survivors of domestic violence, regardless of their race or life circumstances." * Library Journal *"Goodmark buttresses her call for an abolition feminism opposed to the carceral system with harrowing case studies and hard data. This provocation hits the mark." * Publishers Weekly *Table of ContentsContents Preface Acknowledgments 1. The Criminalization of Survival 2. Youth 3. Arrest and Prosecution 4. Punishment and Sentencing 5. Reconsideration and Clemency 6. Abolition Feminism Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThis is a guide to the pervasiveness and intricacies of law and an invitation for those interested in its mechanics, purposes and functions. It is a thorough guide to a mysterious and complex institution and profession.Trade Review"A delightful book - one can open it at almost any page and be drawn in. It is no small compliment to say that it would be an excellent appealing appetiser for uncommited 6th formers and pre-law students.... all three years of undergraduates would get benefit from reading it." V Tunkel, Queen Mary College, LondonTable of Contents1. The Pervasiveness of Law. 2. Legal Ideals and Sordid Realities. 3. Legal Systems and Legal Traditions. 4. The Divisions of the Law. 5. The Sources of Law. 6. Lawyers. 7. The Academic Study of Law. 8. The Future of the Law. 9. Where Next?

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Book SynopsisPart of a national programme of texts and modules for undergraduate students following business studies programmes, this book provides 100 hours of study to be used by students in a supported learning environment. It uses a range of questions, self-assessment exercises and assignments.Table of ContentsGuide for Students. Guide for Lecturers. Part I:. The English Legal System. The Nature of Law. Sources of Law. The Courts and Tribunals. Legal Personnel and Legal Aid. Part II: . Legal Relationships. Liability for Employees and Agents. Sole Traders and Partnerships. Forming a Company. Managing the Company. Part III:. Business Contracts. Making a Contract. What can go Wrong During the Making of a Contract. Contractual Terms. Discharging a Contract. Part IV:. Non-Contractual Obligations of the Seller/Producer. The Duty of Care in Negligence. Other Aspects of Negligence and Product Liability. Other Aspects of Tort. Liability in Respect of Employees. Part V:. European Community Law. The Development of the European Community. The Functions of the Institutions. The Sources of European Community Law. The Integration of European Community Law at a National Level. Enforcement of European Community Law at a European Level.

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Book Synopsis* Provides an integrated and fully theorized understanding of language and law issues. * Contains many helpful examples from genuine legal contexts and texts. * Discusses linguistic sources of disadvantage before the law, particularly for ethnic minorities, children and abused women. .Trade Review"Forensic Linguistics fills a major gap and will be invaluable to those who teach courses on language and the law at both undergraduate and postgraduate level. It is wide ranging and accessible, with a large references section – ideal as an introduction to the subject. I will certainly use it with my own students." Malcolm Coulthard, University of Birmingham "This book brings a wealth of knowledge to the study of language and law. It should be of interest to a wide audience, including sociologists and anthropologists interested in studying such things as power relationships among participants in the legal system through close examination of linguistic behavior. The book more than meets its stated goal, “to open a door on the fascinating and important relationship between language and the law in its many aspects." Lawrence M. Solan, Brooklyn Law School "John Gibbons' book Forensic Linguistics provides a lucid overview of the general concepts and issues relating to linguistic communication in the justice system." New Zealand Studies in Applied Linguistics "This is part of Blackwell's excellent Language in Society series, and Gibbon's well-written and broadly engaging textbook continues that tradition... it is already receiving praise from students, students who judge books not only on scholarly content but accessibility... Forensic Linguistics will become the primary text in the growing interdisciplinary field of legal language and discourse." Discourse and SocietyTable of ContentsSeries Editor’s Preface. Examples and Conventions. 1. Introduction: The Law And Language. 2. Literacy And The Law. 3. The Pursuit Of Precision. 4. Interaction And Power. 5. Telling The Story. 6. Communication Issues In The Legal System. 7. Language And Disadvantage Before The Law. 8. Bridging The Gap. 9. Law On Language. 10. Linguistic Evidence. References. Index of Legal Cases and Legislation. Index.

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