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Book SynopsisThis book critically confronts perceptions that social media has become a âwastelandâ for young people. Law has become preoccupied with privacy, intellectual property, defamation and criminal behaviour in and through social media. In the case of children and youth, this book argues, these preoccupations â whilst important â have disguised and distracted public debate away from a much broader, and more positive, consideration of the nature of social media. In particular, the legal tendency to consider social media as âdangerousâ for young people â to focus exclusively on the need to protect and control their online presence and privacy, whilst tending to suspect, or to criminalise, their use of it â has obscured the potential of social media to help young people to participate more fully as citizens in society. Drawing on sociological work on the construction of childhood, and engaging a wide range of national and international legal material, this book argues that social media may yet offer the possibility of an entirely different â and more progressive âconceptualisation of children and youth.Table of Contents1. Moral panics, childhood, social media and the law 2. Recreating families in social media 3. Social media, young people and political accountability 4. Schools, young people and social media: surveillance and the role model void 5. Working in the online society: social media and young people in new workplace 6. Crime, Identity and Gender: how social media opens new worlds of hope and exploitation 7. ‘Don’t mention the porn’: social media and the rise of the sexual child 8. The New Wasteland: Law, Many Publics and the Loss of Interest

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Book SynopsisThe protection of vulnerable groups varies under international human rights law. Depending on the group at stake, protection may be more or less advanced. In some cases, the international community has deemed it necessary to adopt conventions providing for the rights of certain vulnerable groups and establishing mechanisms to verify State compliance. Other groups have not been the focus of Statesâ standard-setting endeavours, but their protection still falls within the scope of human rights treaties of general application and the mandate of their respective monitoring bodies. This book takes an innovative approach to the investigation of the international legal protection of vulnerable groups. Rather than examining the situation of a number of vulnerable groups and applicable international or regional conventions, this book reviews the overall scope of the protection of vulnerable groups under International Human Rights Law. This book conceptualizes the protection of vulnerabTable of ContentsIntroduction 1. Introducing the International Legal Protection of Vulnerable Groups 2. The Legal Protection of Vulnerable Groups as an Integral Component of the Scope of International Human Rights Law 3. The Practice of UN Treaty Bodies and Thematic UN Special Procedures Relevant to the Protection of Vulnerable Groups 4. The Practice of The Committee On Economic, Social and Cultural Rights and the Committee on the Rights of the Child Relevant to the Protection of Vulnerable Groups 5. Regional Trends in the Protection of Vulnerable Groups and Their Members 6. The Vulnerability Paradigm of The European Court of Human Rights 7. The Practice of Domestic Courts Relevant to Vulnerable Groups and Persons 8. Conclusive Reflections Conclusions

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Book SynopsisThe Evolving Protection of Prisoners' Rights in Europe explores the development of the framing of penal and prison policies by the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR), clarifying the European expectations of national authorities, and describing the various models existing in Europe, with a view to analysing their mechanisms and highlighting those that seem the most suitable.A new frame of penal and prison policies in Europe has been progressively established by the ECHR and the Council of Europe (CoE) to protect the rights of detainees in Europe. European countries have reacted very diversely to these policies. This book has several key benefits for readers: A global and detailed overview of the ECHR jurisprudence on penal and prison policies through an analysis of its development over time. An analysis of the interactions between the Strasbourg Court and the CoE bodies (Committee of Ministers, Committee for the Prevention of Torture ) and their Table of ContentsIntroductionPART 1 EUROPEAN CASE LAW ON PRISONS: A SPLIT JURISPRUDENCE Chapter 1. The right to life: suicide and homicide prevention in prisonChapter 2. The prohibition of torture and inhumane and degrading treatment and the right to liberty and securityChapter 3. The execution of penalties in the jurisprudence of the European Court of human rights Chapter 4. The Rights of Prisoners within the CJEU’s case law.PART 2. EFFECTIVENESS OF HUMAN RIGHTS IN PRISON AND EUROPEAN liRESPONSES TO HUMAN RIGHTS VIOLATION IN PRISONChapter 5. Ireland: the weak European supervision of prison policies and its explanations Chapter 6. Strengths and weaknesses of the judicial protection in Germany. Chapter 7. The conduct of prison reforms. An assessment of the effectiveness of domestic remedies in Italy Chapter 8. The impact of the European Court of Human Rights on the supervision of conditions of detention by the French courtsChapter 9. Belgium: structural problems in the field of prison overcrowding, healthcare and security measures PART 3. THE IMPACTS OF THE EUROPEAN LAW ON PRISON REFORMSChapter 10. Reform vs. Resistance in the Romanian Penitentiary System. Prison Staff Perceptions and Attitudes Regarding their Role in Reaching the Legal Goal of Detention Chapter 11. Assessment of corrective measures in the United Kingdom Chapter 12. Systemic effects and dashed expectations: The two tales of Prison Litigation in Germany

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Book SynopsisTrade, Competition and Domestic Regulatory Policy presents a unique combination of analysis of both international trade and investment policies, and competition and regulatory policies. Increasingly, policymakers, businesses and the law and economics professions need to better understand how changes and policy developments in international trade and competition developed and how their interaction impacts on global business. In addition to providing a comprehensive analysis of the attempts of international trade theory and practice to deal with tariffs, non-tariff barriers, market distortions and failures to protect various kinds of property rights, this book contains a detailed treatment of how property rights protection, including intangible property rights are a critical element of ensuring open trade and competitive markets. It examines how these rights have developed over time, and how they have been integrated into trade and competition policy. This book Table of ContentsTable of Contents:Chapter 1: Purposes of Trade Liberalisation and Competitive MarketsChapter 2: Introduction to Institutions Underpinning Global Trade and RegulationsChapter 3: The Role of Consumer Welfare in Competition Implementation and EnforcementChapter 4: A Brief Introduction to the Theory of Anti-Competitive Market DistortionsChapter 5: Trade Policies and Trade Remedies through the Lens of Competition and Consumer WelfareChapter 6: The General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade: A Temporary Fix but a Constitutional FoundationChapter 7: Trade and Competition in Agriculture: A Trade Negotiation and Sugar Case StudyChapter 8: State-Trading Enterprises and State-Supported Monopolies: Beginnings of Consumer Welfare TestChapter 9: Domestic Regulatory ReformChapter 10: The Role of Property Rights in Building a Competitive MarketChapter 11: Protecting Property Rights: The Triple Interface between Intellectual Property, Competition and TradeChapter 12: Trade in Services: General IntroductionChapter 13: Financial ServicesChapter 14: Impact of the New Media EconomyChapter 15: Conclusion

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Book SynopsisThis book provides a comprehensive, student-friendly and critical introduction to youth justice in England and Wales, offering a balanced evaluation of its development, rationale, nature and evidence base. It explores the evolution of definitions and explanations of youth offending and examines the responses to it that constitute youth justice.Bringing together theory, policy and practice, this book provides a balanced exposition of contemporary youth justice debates, including detailed discussions of governmental rationales, policy developments, practical issues and an extensive evaluation of critical academic positions. It includes a range of features designed to engage and inspire students: Stop and think': Activities challenging students to reflect on important issues. Conversations': Discussions of key themes and issues from the perspectives and experiences of relevant stakeholders, including policy makers and activists. Trade ReviewSteve Case’s "Youth Justice - A Critical Introduction" provides an essential introduction to youth justice in England and Wales, indeed I’d say is the essential introductory text, and as such fills a gap last occupied when Donald West first published his seminal ‘The Young Offender’ in 1967. Stimulating, balanced, but with a committed and challenging edge to it, no student, youth justice practitioner, or policy maker should allow themselves to be far away from a copy. Professor John Drew, Professor at University of Bedfordshire and Former Chief Executive of the Youth Justice Board for England and Wales (2009-2013). Table of ContentsIntroduction 1.Defining youth offending: The social construction of ‘youth offending’ 2.Explaining youth offending: Individual, socio-structural and systemic causes 3.Explaining youth offending: Risk factor theories 4.Responding to youth offending: The social construction of youth justice 5.Responding to youth offending: New Labour and the ‘new youth justice’ 6.Responding to youth offending: A newer ‘new youth justice’ Conclusion

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Book SynopsisThis book focuses on analysing how legal systems set the terms for interactions between human beings and plants. The story that the book recounts is one of experimental lawmaking in Ecuador, a country where over the past decade, governmental officials and civil society advocates have attempted to reconfigure how human individuals and institutions relate to nature, by following an eco-centric approach to lawmaking. In doing so, Ecuadorian legislators, administrators, and judges have taken seriously the ontologies of non-human entities, including plants, through a process that has required the continuous navigation of tensions with certain logics that pervade conventional legal regimes. The book endeavours to disrupt these conventional assumptions and approaches to lawmaking by taking seriously alternative strategies to reconstitute interactions between people and plants. In doing so, the book argues in favour of an ecological turn in laws that govern vegetal life. The aTable of ContentsTable of ContentsAcknowledgements Introduction A Note on Methodology Structure of the Book and Chapter Summaries Part 1: Conventional Approaches to the Governance of Human-Plant InteractionsChapter 1. Taking Plants Seriously in Law 1.1. Challenging the Epistemology of Plants 1.2. Recognising Nature as a Subject with Rights 1.3. Eco-centric Ecuador: Constitutional Protections for Pachamama 1.4. Towards an "Ecological Turn" in Law Chapter 2. Turning Plants into Intellectual Property 2.1. Plants as Inventions 2.2. The Emergence of Systems for Plant Breeders’ Rights 2.3. Alternatives to the Plant Breeders’ Rights Model of Intellectual Property for Plants Chapter 3. Universalising an Instrumental Approach to Plants in Law 3.1. The Contraction of Policy Space for Intellectual Property Lawmaking 3.2. The Expansion of UPOV as Explained by Free Trade Agreements Chapter 4. The Logic of Plant Genetic Resources 4.1. The End of the Common Heritage Approach 4.2. The Emergence of the Global Biodiversity Treaties 4.3. The Instrumental, Economic, and Proprietary Logics of Plant Genetic Resources Part 2: Experimenting with an Eco-Centric Approach: An Ecuadorian StoryChapter 5. Reconfiguring Intellectual Property in Ecuador 5.1. The Ingenios Act: Intellectual Property Meets Sumak Kawsay 5.2. The Making of the Ingenios Act 5.3. The Aspirations of the Ingenios Act 5.4. The New Institutionalism of the Ingenios Act 5.5. The Ingenios Act: Reimagination or Recapitulation? Chapter 6. The Ecuadorian Approach to Intellectual Property for Plants 6.1. The Reconstitution of the Plant Variety in the Ingenios Act 6.2. The Limits of Intellectual Property for Plants in the Ingenios Act Chapter 7. Alternatives to Conventional Legal Imaginaries for Human-Plant Interactions 7.1. Seed Law as an Alternative to Intellectual Property 7.2. Traditional Knowledge Protection as an Alternative to Intellectual Property 7.3. Food Sovereignty as an Alternative to Intellectual Property Chapter 8. Lessons from the Ecuadorian Experiment with an Ecological Turn in Lawmaking 8.1. Pachamama Goes to Court: Adjudicating the Rights of Nature 8.2. What the Rights of Nature Jurisprudence Means for Plants 8.3. Lessons from Eco-Centric Experiments in Lawmaking BibliographyAppendix I: Tables Appendix II: Figures

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Book SynopsisThe Routledge Handbook of Comparative Territorial Autonomies affords a comprehensive, pioneering and interdisciplinary survey of this emerging field. Moving beyond traditionally narrower engagements with the subject, it combines approaches to comparative law and comparative politics to provide an authoritative guide to the principal theoretical and empirical topics in the area. Bringing together a team of cutting-edge scholars from different disciplines and continents, the volume illuminates the latest thinking and scholarship on comparative territorial autonomies.This Handbook is an authoritative, essential reference text for students, academics and researchers in its field. It will also be of key interest to those in the fields of comparative politics, comparative law, local/regional government, federalism, decentralisation and nationalism, as well as practitioners in think tanks, NGOs and international governmental organisations.Trade Review"At a moment when the nation-state is trying to both reassert itself and resist challenges to undermine it, this edited collection is timely. It offers a holistic assessment of the political, legal and social aspects of territorial autonomy, and a new and positive direction of scholarship that establishes a strong theoretical framework, effectively complemented by a diverse and rich range of case studies. It is an important work that should be read and used as a springboard for further inquiry."Peter Clegg, University of the West of England, UK"Eschewing the usual methodological nationalism, this Handbook combines comparative law and comparative politics approaches to present an original theoretical and conceptual framework and several engaging case studies of territorial autonomies. The volume nicely succeeds in providing a rich panoply of current debates and comparative information on all these specific political entities at the substate level. The Handbook will certainly promote an emerging research agenda and will be a worthwhile read for academics and researchers interested in the fields of regional government and nationalism and self-determination, but also for practitioners and decision-makers concerned with issues of diversity management and substate institution-building."César Colino, The National University of Distance Education, Spain"By addressing the key concepts and drawing on such a rich store of material, this original work will be a valuable resource for scholars of constitutional law and politics, federalism and the management of territorial diversity."Michael Keating, University of Aberdeen, UKTable of ContentsIntroduction, 1. What are Territorial Autonomies and Why the Handbook?, Part 1: Theories and approaches, 2. Constitutional Frameworks of Territorial Autonomies: Global Legal Observations, 3. Territorial Autonomies as a Form of Self-Determination: The Legal Right to Internal Self-Determination, 4. Territorial or Non-Territorial Autonomy: The Tools for Governing Diversity, 5. Autonomous Belonging: The Politics of Stateless Nationalism, 6. Societal Minorities and Legislatures in Territorial Autonomies: A Critical Introduction, 7. Electoral and Party Politics in Territorial Autonomies: Dynamics Between State and Peripheral Parties, Part 2: Case studies, 8. Åland Islands: 100 Years of Stability, 9. Aceh: Fading Autonomy, 10. Basques: History and Autonomy, 11. Catalonia: From Autonomy to Self-Determination, 12. Gibraltar: Democracy Without Decolonisation, 13. Greenland: Autonomy in the Arctic Region, 14. Guam: The Place Where America’s Day Begins, 15. Hong Kong: Autonomy in Crisis, 16. Jammu and Kashmir: Contested Autonomy, 17. Macao: Undemocratic Autonomy in Harmony, 18. Northern Ireland: A Place Apart?, 19. Quebec: From Autonomism to Sovereignism, and Back Again, 20. Scotland: A Distinct Political Community in the United Kingdom, 21. Sarawak: Quest for Autonomy, 22. Sabah: Autonomy and Integration within the Malaysian Federation, 23. South Tyrol: From Conflict to Consociationalism, 24. Tatarstan: A Landlocked Republic, Conclusion, 25. Rethinking Territorial Autonomies: Towards Transcontinental Comparative Political Studies

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Book SynopsisTracking technologies are now ubiquitous and are part of many people's everyday lives. Large sections of the population voluntarily use devices and apps to track fitness, medical conditions, sleep, vital signs or their own or others' whereabouts. Governments, health services, immigration and criminal justice agencies increasingly rely upon tracking technologies to monitor individuals' whereabouts, behaviour, medical conditions and interventions. Despite the human rights concerns of some organisations and individuals, most wearers and their significant others tend to welcome the technologies. This paradox is only one of the many fascinating challenges raised by the widespread use of tracking technologies which are explored in this book.This book critically explores the ethical, legal, social, and technical issues arising from the current and future use of tracking technologies. It provides a unique and wide-ranging discussion, via a cross-disciplinary collection of essays, on Table of Contents1.Tracking people: an introduction Anthea Hucklesby and Raymond Holt 2.GPS tracking in care settings: attending to the socio-material context of use Joe Wherton, Trisha Greenhalgh, Sara Shaw, Rob Procter and Jay Shaw 3.Using tracking technologies well: the contribution of the concepts of ‘tightness’ or ‘grip’ Anthea Hucklesby 4.Proportionality and monitoring: penal vs care contexts Tom Sorell 5.‘He’s doing a hokey cokey’: everyday calculations and controversies of digitally mediated punishment in Scotland Ryan Casey 6.Tracking in the interests of counter-terrorism Jessie Blackbourn and Clive Walker 7.Smartphone electronic monitoring (EM), Artificial Intelligence and the mass supervision question in the USA Mike Nellis 8.Reducing opioid related deaths for individuals who are at high risk of overdose: a co-production study Anne Campbell, Sharon Millen, Amanda Taylor-Beswick and Li Guo 9.Using geolocation-based technologies for monitoring people with severe mental illness Niels Peek, Paolo Fraccaro and Sabine van der Veer 10.Tracking people and sociotechnical systems design Raymond Holt 11.Apple AirTags as people trackers Neil McBride

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Book SynopsisThis book considers the ethics and politics of state apologies made to Indigenous peoples.The prevalent tendency to treat an apology as a speech act has maintained the focus on the state leader making the apology and not on the victims' claims. This book demonstrates the inherent shortcomings of this approach through an examination of apologies delivered to Indigenous peoples in Australia and Canada. Contrasting the texts of these apologies with Indigenous peoples'' responses, the book developsan understanding of apology as a relational process. This involves engaging Indigenous peoples in dialogue, the aim of which would be to address past injuries by fulfilling the apology''s transformative promise of ''never again'' to Indigenous peoples'' satisfaction. The book concludes byexamining more recent developments in Australia and Canada that highlight the continuing need for government accountability to fulfil this promise and ensure Indigenous people''s rights and interests ar

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Book SynopsisFingerprints: Analysis and Understanding the Science, Second Edition is a thorough update of Mark Hawthorneâs classic written by two professionals with combined experience not only in crime scene investigations but also as court-recognized experts in latent print examination. Designed as a concise text to cover the fundamental techniques and principles of obtaining and analyzing latent fingerprint evidence, the book is laid out and written in an easy to understand format for those front-line professionals collecting and analyzing fingerprint evidence. Over time, the degree of sophistication and education on fingerprints and friction ridge analysis has increased. Ultimately, through scientific study by pioneers in the field, the composition of friction skin soon became evident: that it could be used as a unique identifier of individuals. Now, fingerprints and footprints as unique identifiersâand their use in criminal casesâhave become commonplace and an essentTable of ContentsPreface. Acknowledgements. About the Authors. Part I: Fingerprints Analysis. Chapter 1 – The History of Fingerprints. Chapter 2 – Systematic Methods of Identification. Chapter 3 – Fingerprint Pattern Types and Associated Terminology. Chapter 4 – Introduction to Classification Systems. Part II: Development, Identification, and Presentation of Fingerprints. Chapter 5 – Known/Direct/Inked Fingerprints; Processing Technique for Unknown/Latent Fingerprints. Chapter 6 – Court Preparation and Presentation. Appendix A. Appendix B. Appendix C. Bibliography. Index.

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Book SynopsisThis handbook provides a toolbox of definitions and typologies to develop a theory of multilevel constitutionalism and subnational constitutions. The volume examines systems with subnational entities that have full subnational constituent autonomy and systems where subnational constituent powers, while claimed by subnational governments, are incomplete or non-existent. Understanding why complete subnational constituent power exists or is denied sheds significant light on the status and functioning of subnational constitutions. The book deals with questions of how constitutions at multiple levels of a political system can co-exist and interact. The term multilevel constitutionalism', recognized as explaining how a supranational European constitution can exist alongside those of the Member States, is now used to capture dynamics between constitutions at the national, subnational and, where applicable, supranational levels. Broad in scope, the book encompasses many different typTable of Contents Subnational Constitutionalism: Defining subnational constitutions and self-constituent capacity Subnational Constitutionalism in Argentina: Provincial autonomy in a uninational federation Subnational Constitutionalism in Australia: State autonomy in a uninational federation Subnational Constitutionalism in Austria: The pluralisation of homogeneity Subnational constitutionalism in Belgium: A matter of abstained maturity Subnational Constitutionalism in Bosnia and Herzegovina: Towering sub-national autonomy and a loose clamp of the central level to all intents and purposes Subnational Constitutionalism in Brazil: The space of state constitutions for improving Brazilian federalism Subnational Constitutionalism in Canada: A hysteretic approach to distinctive constitutional identities Subnational Constitutionalism in Ethiopia: Constitutional déjà vu Subnational Constitutionalism in Germany: Constitutional autonomy, unitarian federalism, and intertwined policy-making Subnational Constitutionalism in India: Subnational constitutionalism or constitution within the constitution? Subnational Constitutionalism in Italy: Unfulfilled Expectations? Subnational Constitutionalism in Malaysia: Weak states in a strong federation Subnational Constitutionalism in Mexico: Medium state autonomy in a centralized federation Subnational Constitutionalism in South Africa: An empty promise Subnational constitutionalism in Spain: Confluence of wills in a basic institutional norm Subnational Constitutionalism in Switzerland: A sleeping beauty awaiting to be kissed Subnational Constitutionalism in the United Kingdom: Constitutional statutes within the context of an uncodified constitution Subnational Constitutionalism in the United States: Powerful states in a powerful federation Conclusion: Nine hypotheses to explain variation in subnational constitutional autonomy

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Book SynopsisThis book argues that policing should be studied in a truly comparative manner as a way of identifying more accurately the diverse features of police organisations and the trends which affect contemporary policing. Studying policing comparatively is also a way to develop more sophisticated theories on the relations between police, state, and society aiming at higher degree of generalization. In particular, broadening the empirical basis, often limited to Western countries, favours the formulation of more encompassing theories. The comparative analysis, then, is used to refine meso or macro theories on various aspects of policing.The book covers the challenges of comparative research in diverse areas of policing studies with innovative tools and approaches to allow for the development of that subfield of policing. It is a significant new contribution to policing studies, and will be a great resource for academics, researchers, and advanced students of Public Policy, Sociology,Table of ContentsIntroductionChallenges and promises of comparative policing research Jacques de Maillard and Sebastian RochéPolicing and the state: national paradigms, private security and citizens’ role 1. Plural policing, the public good, and the constitutional state: an international comparison of Austria and Canada – OntarioBas van Stokkom and Jan Terpstra 2. Comparing private security regulation in the European UnionMark Button and Peter Stiernstedt 3. Citizen participation in community safety: a comparative study of community policing in South Korea and the UKKwan Choi and Ju-lak Lee Comparing police–citizen relations: policies and practices4. Under-regulated and unaccountable? Explaining variation in stop and search rates in Scotland, England and WalesGenevieve Lennon and Kath Murray5. Different styles of policing: discretionary power in street controls by the public police in France and GermanyJacques de Maillard, Daniela Hunold, Sebastian Roché and Dietrich Oberwittler Police legitimacy, democracy and integrity: the need for comparative instruments across contexts 6. Police legitimacy in Africa: a multilevel multinational analysisFrancis D. Boateng7. Assessing the validity of police integrity scale in a comparative contextJon Maskály, Sanja Kutnjak Ivković, Maria Haberfeld, Christopher Donner, Tiffany Chen and Michael Meyers

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Book SynopsisThis book provides a comprehensive analysis of the presumption of innocence from both a practical and theoretical point of view. Throughout the book a framework for the presumption of innocence is developed.The book approaches the right to presumption of innocence from an international human rights perspective using specific examples drawn from international criminal law. The result is a framework for understanding the right that is grounded in human rights law. This framework can then be applied across different national and international systems. When applied, it can help determine when the presumption of innocence is being infringed upon, eroded, violated, and ensure that the presumption of innocence is protected. The book is an essential resource for students, academics and practitioners working in the areas of human rights, criminal law, international criminal law, and evidence. The themes also have a more general application to national jurisdictionTable of Contents1. Introduction2. The Presumption of Innocence in Context3. Who Has the Right and When Does it Become Operable?4. Who Carries the Duty to Uphold the Presumption of Innocence?5. The Procedural Aspect of the Presumption of Innocence6. The Non-Procedural Aspect of the Presumption of Innocence7. The Relationship Between the Presumption of Innocence and Pre-Determination Detention8. Conclusion

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Book SynopsisThis book offers an applied approach to criminology suitable for prospective police officers. It covers the fundamentals of criminological knowledge, theory and research, and their relevance to policing. The book is split into two parts, the first introducing the basics of criminology, and the second connecting criminological research to police practice. It focuses on the principles of evidence-based practice and encourages students to think critically about the issues covered. Core content includes the following: A history of policing in England and Wales, through a criminological lens. An overview of the literature on police culture, bias and discretion. A review of the challenges of applying criminological insights to policing, and the impact of the College of Policing code of ethics on police practice. An exploration of the challenges of contemporary policing, including complex crime, transnational investigationTrade ReviewThe delivery of policing in any democratic society presents a critical test of those democratic systems and civic institutions that seek to provide security for citizens and to protect those who are vulnerable or marginalised. Criminology for the Police is the first book to interrogate this enduring tension and competing interpretations of the relationship between crime and policing in the context of the College of Policing’s Police Education Qualifications Framework. The book introduces key ideas and concepts that underpin our understanding of crime as well as the design and delivery of twenty-first century policing and assesses their implications for those tasked with front-line policing. The book also outlines the growing importance of data and knowledge generation to the contemporary policing landscape and introduces readers to the basic skills required to use research and data to understand dynamic and complex challenges and improve the delivery of policing. Baroness Helena Kennedy The relationship between academic and policing is not new, but the introduction of the PEQF is a game changer and thousands of new recruits into the police are already finding themselves engaged in academic studies of policing that they might not have expected to be part of their role. This book helps these officers navigate their way through various theories and concepts by drawing out the different ways in which criminology informs our understanding of policing. Importantly, the authors remind us that criminology encompasses a diverse range of perspectives, and they focus on making the appropriate links between different criminological voices and the relevant aspects of policing. Dominic Wood Head of the School of Law, Policing and Social Sciences at Canterbury Christchurch University 'The delivery of policing in any democratic society presents a critical test of those democratic systems and civic institutions that seek to provide security for citizens and to protect those who are vulnerable or marginalised. Criminology for the Police is the first book to interrogate this enduring tension and competing interpretations of the relationship between crime and policing in the context of the College of Policing’s Police Education Qualifications Framework. The book introduces key ideas and concepts that underpin our understanding of crime as well as the design and delivery of twenty-first century policing and assesses their implications for those tasked with front-line policing. The book also outlines the growing importance of data and knowledge generation to the contemporary policing landscape and introduces readers to the basic skills required to use research and data to understand dynamic and complex challenges and improve the delivery of policing.'Baroness Helena Kennedy 'The relationship between academic and policing is not new, but the introduction of the PEQF is a game changer and thousands of new recruits into the police are already finding themselves engaged in academic studies of policing that they might not have expected to be part of their role. This book helps these officers navigate their way through various theories and concepts by drawing out the different ways in which criminology informs our understanding of policing. Importantly, the authors remind us that criminology encompasses a diverse range of perspectives, and they focus on making the appropriate links between different criminological voices and the relevant aspects of policing.'Dominic Wood Head of the School of Law, Policing and Social Sciences at Canterbury Christchurch University Table of Contents1.A Criminology for the Police? 2.Disciplinary Criminology and the Police 3.Criminology for the Police 4.Policing Strategies 5.From Police Culture to Policing Vulnerability 6.Problem-Solving for Police Officers 7.The Evolution of Evidence-Based Policing 8.Doing Research on Crime and Policing 9.Doing Your Own Research 10.Conclusion

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Book SynopsisThis book explores the increasing concern over the extent to which those suffering from forced cross-border displacement as a result of environmental change are protected under international human rights law. Formally they are not entitled to admission or stay in a third state country, a situation that has been identified as an international legal protection gap.The book seeks to provide answers to two basic questions: whether and to what extent existing international law protects cross-border environmental displacement, and whether and how existing formalized regional complementary protection standards can interpretively solidify and conceptualize protection for cross-border environmental displacement. The discussion outlines that the protection of the human person is not only an ex post facto obligation of states, but must be increasingly seen as an ex ante one. The analysis further suggests that the European Union regionally orientated protection regime can help states to Table of Contents1. Introduction; 2. From environmental change to human displacement; 3. Protection Obligations of States under International Human Rights Law and Related Instruments; 4. Status and Protection Obligations of States under International Refugee Law; 5. Consolidating Protection for Environmental Displacement; 6. Conclusion;

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Book SynopsisThe book provides an in-depth discussion of democratic theory questions in relation to refugee law.The work introduces readers to the evolution of refugee law and its core issues today, as well as central lines in the debate about democracy and migration. Bringing together these fields, the book links theoretical considerations and legal analysis. Based on its specific understanding of the refugee concept, it offers a reconstruction of refugee law as constantly confronted with the question of how to secure rights to those who have no voice in the democratic process. In this reconstruction, the book highlights, on the one hand, the need to look beyond the legal regulations for understanding the challenges and gaps in refugee protection. It is also the structural lack of political voice, the book argues, which shapes the refugee's situation. On the other hand, the book opposes a view of law as mere expression of power and points out the dynamics within the law which reflecTable of ContentsI. The refugee;Chapter 1 Who is a refugee?;Chapter 2 Who decides who is a refugee?;II. Democracy’s edges;Chapter 3 Citizenship and the claiming of rights;Chapter 4 Democracy between the need for institutions and demands of inclusion;III. The legal conditions of refugees’ political voice;Chapter 5 Institutions of refugees’ political participation;Chapter 6 The role of associative rights for refugees’ political voice;Chapter 7 Humanitarian government and the political membership of refugees;Chapter 8 Representation of refugees in international forums;

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Book SynopsisPhilosophers, legal scholars, criminologists, psychiatrists, and psychologists have long asked important questions about punishment: What is its purpose? What theories help us better understand its nature? Is punishment just? Are there effective alternatives to punishment? How can empirical data from the sciences help us better understand punishment? What are the relationships between punishment and our biology, psychology, and social environment? How is punishment understood and administered differently in different societies? The Routledge Handbook of the Philosophy and Science of Punishment is the first major reference work to address these and other important questions in detail, offering 31 chapters from an international and interdisciplinary team of experts in a single, comprehensive volume. It covers the major theoretical approaches to punishment and its alternatives; emerging research from biology, psychology, and social neuroscience; and important special issues likTable of ContentsIntroduction Part I: Theories of Punishment and Contemporary Perspectives 1. Theories of Punishment 2. Retribution 3. Offenders as Citizens 4. Hybrid Theories of Punishment 5. Limiting Retributivism and Individual Prevention 6. The Contours of a Utilitarian Theory of Punishment in Light of Contemporary Empirical Knowledge about the Attainment of Traditional Sentencing Objectives 7. The Restorative Justice Movement: Questioning the Rationale of Contemporary Criminal Justics Part II: Philosophical Perspectives on Punishment 8. Defamiliarizing Punishment 9. The Retributive Sentiments 10. The Right to Punish 11. Problem of Proportional Punishment 12. The Gap 13. Science and the Evolution of American Criminal Punishment 14. What is Wrong with Mass Incarceration? Part III: Sciences, Prevention, and Punishment 15. Punishment, Shaming, and Violence 16. Humanizing Prison through Social Neuroscience: From the Abolition of Solitary Confinement to the Pursuit of Socual Rehabilitation 17. Effects of Prison Crowding on Prison Misconduct and Bullying 18. Biosocial Risk Factors for Offending 19. Brain Abnormalities Associated with Pedophilia: Implications for Retribution and Rehabilitation 20. Current Trends in Cognitive Neuroscience and Criminal Punishment 21. Behavioural Genetics and Sentencing 22. Prediction, Screening and Early Intervention 23. Comparison of Socio-Affective Processing across Subtypes of Antisocial Psychopathology 24. Forensic Mental Health Treatment and Recidivism 25. Recovery of Persons Labelled "Not Criminally Responsible": Recommendations Grounded in Lived Experiences Part IV: Alternatives to Current Punishment Practices 26. Punishment and Its Alternatives 27. Pre-Trial Detention and the Supplantating of our Adversarial System 28. A Non-Punitive Alternative to Retributive Punishment 29. The Takings Doctrine and the Principle of Legality 30. How to Transform a Static Security Prison into a Dynamic Organism for Change and Growth 31. Towards a Strengths-Based Focus in the Criminal Justice System for Drug-Using Offenders

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Book SynopsisThis edited book aims to capture the functioning of human rights and civil activism at the level of the relationships between the individual and the social, and in relation to abuses, contestations, and transformations. Chapters cover the ways human rights are denied, articulated, and not realised. Mega-events, either sporting or otherwise (e.g. Gay Pride), tend to be the focus of this inquiry, although there are important contributions on grassroots non-governmental organisations. Overall, a range of research methodologies are deployed; the chapters vary between using primary research, using commissioned research, and presenting theoretically grounded arguments. The tendency is towards approaches that capture the empirical, everyday experiences, e.g. ethnography, autoethnography, interviews, focus groups, and observation. This book was originally published as a special issue of Leisure Studies.Table of ContentsIntroduction - From promotion to protection: human rights and events, leisure and sport 1. Understanding the denial of abuses of human rights connected to sports mega-events 2. Politics at play: locating human rights, refugees and grassroots humanitarianism in the Calais Jungle 3. The challenge of articulating human rights at an LGBT ‘mega-event’: a personal reflection on Sao Paulo Pride 2017 4. Configuring human rights at EuroPride 2015 5. Rethinking human rights: the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics, LGBT protections and the limits of cosmopolitanism 6. Human rights abuses at the Rio 2016 Olympics: activism and the media 7. The right to adequate housing: evictions of the homeless and the elderly caused by the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo 8. Mega-sporting events and children’s rights and interests – towards a better future 9. Exploring the economic, social and cultural rights of youth leaders working in Sport for Development initiatives at grassroots level in South Africa

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Book SynopsisAlthough there is plentiful research on the impact of marriage, employment and the military on desistance from criminal behaviour in the lives of men, far less is known about the factors most important to women's desistance. Imprisoned women are far more likely than their male counterparts to be the primary caretakers of children before their incarceration, and are far more likely to intend to reunify with their children upon their release from incarceration. This book focuses on the role of mothering in women's desistance from criminal behaviour.Drawing on original research, this book explores the nature of mothering during incarceration, how mothers maintain a relationship with their children from behind bars and the ways in which mothering makes desistance more or less likely after incarceration. It outlines the ways in which race, gender, class, nationality, sexuality, gender identity, and other characteristics affect mothering and desistance, and explores the tTrade Review"Venezia Michalsen's new book Mothering and Desistance is a wonderful, impressive and moving study of the overlooked question of the conditions under which women desist from crime. Going back to Shadd Maruna's classic work Making Good, Michalsen correctly points out that men's desistance has been researched far more often than women's -- even though her data show that women are growing worldwide, and disproportionately in the United States, as a percentage of incarcerated populations. Her research is impressive insofar as Mothering and Desistance is based on interviews with close to 100 women; it persuasively shows that a large proportion of formerly incarcerated women are mothers, and that motherhood is a huge contributing factor influencing women's desistance. Michalsen's book is uniquely researched and well-framed, and will be a highly cited study on this topic. I am excited about this book's publication and would use it immediately in my classes on criminology, deviance, gender and crime and the sociology of punishment." - Lynn Chancer, former co-editor of Theoretical Criminology"Dr Michalsen's book is both important and makes a valuable contribution to the literature in number of ways. First, she pulls together a remarkable amount of research and descriptive work to paint a very detailed and compelling global picture on the current state of incarcerated women. Second, her concentration on desistance (and especially the specific dynamic between mothers and their children) as opposed to the more narrow, less nuanced but more commonly used measure of recidivism reduction makes this a significant addition to the criminological literature on desistance. Finally, her policy suggestions in her "what is to be done" section is much stronger than the versions in most academic criminological work. Her experience as a practitioner in the Women's Prison Association as well as her current academic research combine to make this a strong conclusion."- Michael Jacobson, Executive Director of the CUNY Institute for State and Local Governance"Made for men, justice systems instinctively ignore the existence of motherhood. This carries heavy implications not only for incarcerated mothers, but for the children and communities to whom they eventually return. Dr Michalsen's work brilliantly illuminates these issues, domestically and globally, pulling together the experiences of moms in the system (in their own words), the ramifications for their desistence, and the policy responses that are necessary to fix the problem."- Francesca Laguardia, Associate Professor of Justice Studies, Montclair State UniversityTable of ContentsIntroduction, 1. Incarcerated women and mothers around the world, 2. Methods and theory, 3. Women and mothers coming home, 4. Mothering, desistance, and redemption, 5. The way forward

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Book SynopsisThis volume offers a diverse set of perspectives on transnational crime. Providing a wide-ranging overview of the legal and policy issues that arise in connection with various forms of transnational crime, the authors outline the criminal justice responses adopted across different jurisdictions. Including contributions from high profile Chinese and European academics and practitioners across a variety of disciplines and methodological backgrounds, the authors address some of the hitherto underexplored issues related to transnational crime. These range from trafficking in cultural objects derived from illicit metal-detecting and metal-detecting tourism in China to the European approaches to criminalising the denial of historical truth. The central theme of the book is that useful lessons can be drawn from each other's experiences, and that a cross-fertilisation of domestic approaches to transnational crime is essential to effective cooperation.This book will be of usTable of Contents1. Introduction 2. The Global Governance of Transnational Crime: Implications for Justice and The Rule of Law Money Laundering, Terrorist Financing and Cybercrime 3. Introduction to Anti-Money Laundering Regulations in China: Institutions, Legal Framework and Practices 4. Acts of Charity and Acts of Terrorism: Regulation and Prosecution 5. On the Improvement of Criminal Legislation and Criminal Policy to Deter Cross-Border Money Laundering in China 6. Transnational Cybercrime and Cybercrime by Transnational Organisations Art Crime and Historical Memory 7. Paint It Black": "Simple" and Increasingly "Professional" Looting of Antiquities with Metal Detectors in East Asia 8. From Canvas to Ashes: Understanding the Implications of the Westfries Museum and Kunsthal Thefts for the Dutch Art World 9. Expression Crimes and the Creation and Protection of Historical Memory by Means of Criminal Law Comparative Perspectives on Corruption and Financial Crime 10. Relocating Bribery: Facilitation Payments as a Crime Against the Market? 11. Credit Card Fraud in Chinese Criminal Law 12. China’s Legal Framework and Challenges of the Freezing, Seizure And Confiscation Of Financial Crime Proceeds Environmental Crime 13. Targeting Transnational Environmental Crime Through a Multifaceted Approach: Towards an Inclusive Governance of Serious Threats to Sustainable Development 14. Preventing Illicit Waste-Exports from the Netherlands to China 15. Motivators for IUU Fishing in the Indo-Pacific

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Book SynopsisFrom the very first negotiations of the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights half a century ago to the present day, socio-economic rights have often been regarded as less enforceable than civil and political rights. The right to adequate housing, even though protecting one of the most basic needs of human beings, has not escaped this classification. Despite its strong foundations in international, regional and domestic legislation, many people are still deprived of one or more of the different key elements that comprise adequate housing. How, then, can international human rights theory and case law be developed into effective vehicles at the domestic level? Rather than focusing merely on possibilities for individualized relief through the court system, The Right to Housing in Law and Society looks into more effective socio-economic rights realization by addressing both conceptual and practical stumbling blocks that hinder a more structural progress at the national level. The Flemish and Belgian housing legislation and policy are used to highlight the problems and illustrate the pathways here presented. While first and foremost legal in its approach, the book also offers a more sociological perspective on the functioning of the right to housing in practice. It shows the latest state of knowledge on the topic and will be of interest to researchers, academics, policymakers and students in the fields of international socio-economic rights law and human rights law more generally. Table of ContentsIntroduction1. International Acknowledgment of the Importance of Housing 2. Approach and Aims of the Book 3. The Belgian and Flemish Right to Housing as Illustration PART I An Effective Right to Housing: Beyond Legal-Technical Issues 1 Human Dignity: A Guiding Principle for a Stronger Right to Housing? 1. Exploring the Content of Human Dignity and Its Use in a Human Rights Context A. History of the Concept B. Human Dignity in a Human Rights Context 1) First Function: A Foundation for Human Rights 2) Second Function: A Value/Right to Protect and Guarantee C. The Added Value and Pitfalls of Using Human Dignity 1) As an Equivalent of Decent or Adequate Housing 2) As an Open-Ended Norm for Courts and Other Institutions a. A Driving Force for Other Rights b. The Other Side of the Coin: A Race to the Bottom? c. Subjective vs. Objective Dignity 4. Impact on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights and the Right to Housing A. Obligations of Result or Conduct? According to Private or International Law? B. A Recipe for Confusion 5. Towards Result-Oriented Obligations? A. The Right to Housing as an Obligation of Result B. A Result-Oriented Approach 6. Conclusion 5 Progressive Realization and Retrogressive Measures 1. Introduction 2. The Concept of Progressive Realization under Scrutiny: From a Housing Rights Perspective A. Progressiveness as a Flexibility Device B. Flexibility Does Not Equal Freedom of Obligations 1) Drittwirkung 2) Immediate Obligations 3) Minimum Core C. Focus on Progressiveness 3. Retrogressive Measures and Financial Constraints A. Origins in International Human Rights Law B. Justification of Retrogressive Measures in International Human Rights Law 1) Presumption of Impermissibility 2) More Leeway for Budgetary Concerns? 3) Connection between Article 2(1) and 4 ICESCR 4) Budgetary Concerns: The Position of the European Committee of Social Rights C. The Application in Belgian Case Law 1) A Broader Margin of Appreciation: No Presumption of Non-Retrogression 2) Practical Problems: Establishing Retrogression 3) A Different Application of the Principle: The Proportionality Test D. Appropriateness of Retrogressive Measures 4. Conclusion 6 Towards Result-Oriented Obligations 1. International Monitoring Techniques 2. Enforceability of Progressive Realization A. A Review Criterion B. Reasonableness 1) Different Scopes of Reasonableness 2) Reasonableness as Appropriateness a. A Preliminary Proposal b. Possible Criticism and Imperfections 3. Combining Monitoring and Reasonableness A. Overview of the Proposal B. Requirements and Areas of Concern 1) The Monitoring Body 2) Ex-Ante and Ex-Post Analysis: Practical Difficulties 3) Enforceability of Progress 5. Conclusion Conclusions Index

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Book SynopsisThe steadily rising number of investor-State arbitration proceedings within the EU has triggered an extensive backlash and an increased questioning of the international investment law regime by different Member States as well as the EU Commission. This has resulted in the EU's assertion of control over the intra-EU investment regime by promoting the termination of bilateral intra-EU investment treaties (intra-EU BITs) and by opposing the jurisdiction of arbitral tribunals in intra-EU investor-State arbitration proceedings. Against the backdrop of the landmark Achmea decision of the European Court of Justice, the book offers an in-depth analysis of the interplay of international investment law and the law of the European Union with regard to intra-EU investments, i.e. investments undertaken by an investor from one EU Member State within the territory of another EU Member State. It specifically analyses the conflict between the two investment protection regimes applicablTable of ContentsIntroduction1. Setting the stage I. European foreign direct investment II. Development of international investment law – A European story III. International investment law within the EU – Unexpected difficulties 2. Comparison of the investment protection regimes I. Introduction II. Scope of application III. Substantive protection IV Procedural protection V. Conclusion 3. Conflict between intra-EU IIAs and EU law I. Nature of EU law and its relationship to public international law II. Alleged invalidity of intra-EU BITs III. Incompatibility of intra-EU BITs with EU law IV. Energy Charter Treaty and EU law V. Result 4. What future for intra-EU investor protection? I. Introduction II. Termination of intra-EU BITs III. Energy Charter Treaty IV. Effects on EU member state courts and other domestic courts V. Effects on investment arbitration proceedings VI. Why a substitute might be necessary VII. Possible substitutes VIII. Assessment General conclusion

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Book SynopsisCovering both the principles and practice of Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR), this important new textbook equips students not only with a contextual understanding of the role of ADR in adjudicating civil disputes but also with the different forms of mediation and ADR available and the key issues in their application.Providing theoretical and practical insights, the book begins with a critical examination of the tenets on which ADR is based, where it sits in relation to civil law, and how it is applied in different national contexts. It discusses the various areas in which mediation or arbitration can be applied, from family mediation to restorative justice, and includes chapters on the ethics of mediation and its psychology, as well as an introduction to online dispute resolution (ODR). The concluding chapter offers some thoughts on the benefits and challenges of mediation.Featuring a glossary of key terms, detailed case law, end-of-chapter problem questions, and advice around listening skills during a mediation process, Mediation and other forms of Alternative Dispute Resolution is an essential textbook for any student approaching ADR for the first time and offers practitioners an opportunity to reflect on the context of ADR.

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Book SynopsisThis book is a systematic and comparative analysis of police systems in the Western world, looking at their structure and how they tackle contemporary social problems, such as economic austerity, multi-level governance, transnational change, relations with minorities and transformation of delinquency. Core content includes: Comparative histories of the formation of national police systems; A discussion of centralised and decentralised police systems; International differences in community policing; A review of different police strategies in fighting delinquency and reducing urban disorder; A comparative analysis of different ways of controlling police misconduct; An exploration of different models of plural policing. While other books focus on policing in relation to measures effective in decreasing delinquency and augmenting security, this book considers the political, professional, administrative and political economic parameteTrade ReviewJacques de Maillard’s Comparative Policing distinguishes itself by attending to Gouldner’s maxim that "context is everything." De Maillard draws upon a wide range of relevant conditions to discern and interpret both broad and subtle patterns across several of the major elements of policing. An essential addition to the library of police scholars. Stephen Mastrofski, University Professor Emeritus of Criminology, Law & Society, George Mason UniversityThe police which originated as a genuinely national institution, has rarely been studied comparatively. With the increasing internationalisation of police work, police research is also beginning to formulate systematic comparative approaches - a perspective for which this highly recommendable book points the way. – Thomas Bierschenk, Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz, German."International comparison is now a major topic in police science. This book, written by a renowned scholar in this field, presents the major debates and topics of concern in the international police studies. A must-read for students, academics and others who are interested in the international dimensions of policing."Jan Terpstra, Professor of criminology, Radboud University, the NetherlandsThis book is a tour de force in comparative policing sociology. Jacques de Maillard offers a distinctive counterbalance to what he calls "the dominance of publications from the Anglosphere". His policing scholarship is impressive, and this book will become key reading for anyone with a serious interest in policing. Mike Hough, Emeritus Professor, Birkbeck, University of London.Comparative work on police is rare writes Jacques de Maillard, but quintessential to grasp general reconfigurations (Garland) together with local/national contexts, institutions, trajectories and circulations. With depth and erudition the book shows the contradictory demands on policing, regulatory approaches, constant reforms, contested legitimation and models of pluralisation. A formidable analysis for students of comparative policing, state reconfiguration and public policies.Patrick Le Galès, CNRS professor Sciences Po, Dean Sciences po Urban SchoolTable of ContentsIntroduction1 The formation of national policing systems2 Policing systems between centralisation and decentralisation3 Connecting the police and the public: experiments in community policing4 Crime fighting, the production of order and police performance5 Controlling the police force 6 The pluralisation of policing in comparative perspective Concluding comments

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Book SynopsisCriminal Law: The Basics is an insightful introduction to the legal aspects of criminal acts, ranging from battery to burglary and harassment to homicide.Starting with an in-depth exploration of the very concept of crime, the book considers key questions such as: How should we decide what is criminal and what isn't? What is the difference between murder and manslaughter? Could you ever be guilty of stealing your own property? What defences are available to those accused of crime?Featuring a range of case studies, from the infamous to the bizarre, the new edition has been thoroughly updated to include new material on loss of control, accessorial liability, dishonesty, causation, liability, manslaughter and sexual offences. Relevant cases, statutes and suggestions for further reading are included throughout, making Criminal Law: The Basics the ideal starting point for anyone studying this area for the first time.Table of Contents1. Basic Concepts in Criminal Law; 2. Homicide; 3. Assault; 4. Property Offences; 5. Accomplice and Inchoate Offences; 6. Defences

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Book SynopsisIntroducing the NegevBedouin land issue from the international indigenous land rights perspective, this comparative study suggests options for the recognition of their land. The book demonstrates that the Bedouin land dispossession, like many indigenous peoples', progressed through several phases that included eviction and displacement, legislation, and judicial decisions that support acts of dispossession and deny the Bedouin's traditional land rights. Examining the Mawat legal doctrine on which the State and the Court rely on to deny Bedouin land rights, this volume introduces the relevant international law protecting indigenous land rights and shows how the limitations of this law prevent any meaningful protection of Bedouin land rights. In the second part of the work, the Aborigines' land in Australia is introduced as an example of indigenous peoples'' successful struggle for their traditional land rights. The final chapter analyzes the basic elements of judicial rTable of Contents1. Introduction 2. Background 3. Dispossession of Bedouin land 4. Protection of indigenous peoples’ land rights under international and regional systems 5. Recognition of indigenous peoples’ land rights 6. Land recognition: application of the customary land rights model in the Bedouin case

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Book SynopsisThe Handbook of Constitutional Law in Greater China surveys important issues of constitutional law in Mainland China, Hong Kong, Macau, and Taiwan. It synthesizes existing scholarship, debates, and views on important constitutional issues in the four jurisdictions. Written by a range of scholars, it contributes to both national and comparative scholarship on constitutional law in these jurisdictions. The book includes four parts: Part I: History. This part explores the constitutional movement of the Qing dynasty; constitutional projects in modern China; and aspects of the drafting and implementation history of the Hong Kong and Macau Basic Laws Part II: Structure. This part discusses the relationship between the party-state and the Chinese constitutional order; Chinese constitutionalism; constitutional aspects of city development under the SAR concept; constitutional review in Mainland China; a history of Taiwan's Council of Grand Justices'; a

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Book SynopsisThis book offers a new theory of federalism. The work critically discusses traditional federal theories and builds on theories that focus on the dynamics of federalism. It offers a definition of federalism and federal organizations that encompasses both new and old types of multi-tiered system. Unlike traditional federal theory, it is well-suited to research both multinational and mononational systems. It also takes into account the complexity of these systems, with bodies of governance at the local, regional, national, and supranational level. The book is divided into three parts: the first part outlines the contours of dynamic federalism, based on a critical overview of traditional federal theory; the second part develops comprehensive indexes to measure autonomy and cohesion of multi-tiered systems; and the third part focuses on the dynamics of federal organizations, with a special focus on institutional hubs for change. Dynamic FederaliTrade Review"Popelier aims at laying the foundations for a new, dynamic theory of federalism, overcoming some key weaknesses of traditional federal theory, and testing such theory on a series of conditions: universality, specificity, and flexibility… the author’s endeavors in trying to overcome the theoretical weaknesses of traditional federal scholarship, doing so from a legal perspective, is certainly fascinating… the book also offers a peculiar opportunity for comparative constitutional law scholarship to reflect on the importance of method and the definition of concepts to advance research." Lidia Bonifati, Diritti Comparati, 27 May 2021 "Dynamic Federalism is one of the rare books that attempt to develop a holistic theory. One that not only describes but also explains and predicts how federal structures come about, remain in place, contribute to stability or fuel fragmentation, and eventually dissolve. Written by a constitutional lawyer and drawing on the Belgian case to measure its various dimensions and indicators, there is much to be learned from several of the book’s core postulates both in the theoretical and in the empirical realms." Sean Mueller (2021): Dynamic federalism: a new theory for cohesion and regional autonomy, Regional & Federal Studies, DOI: 10.1080/13597566.2021.1939691 `…the book is not only greatly informative, but thought-provoking and inspiring. It offers illuminating paths into the worlds of federalism—not all of them yet unknown, but superbly nuanced and analyzed.’ Anna Gamper University of Innsbruck, Austria; doi:10.1093/publius/pjab034 Table of ContentsIntroduction Part I. Theoretical framework Chapter 1. What is federalism? In search of building blocks for a new federal theory Chapter 2. Dynamic Federalism: ‘Federalism as a Process’ Revisited Part II. Measuring Cohesion and Autonomy Chapter 3. Preliminary notes on the indicators: representation, and the Belgian case study Chapter 4. Status Chapter 5. Powers Chapter 6. Fiscal arrangements Part III. Measuring change Chapter 7. Contours for a theory of change Chapter 8. Institutional hubs for change Conclusion: Findings and way forward Appendix: Showcase – Belgium

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Book SynopsisWhile the 21st century bears witness to several conflicts leading to mass displacement, the conflict in Syria has crystallised the need for a solid legal framework and legal certainty.This book analyses the relevant legal instruments for the provision of a protection status for persons fleeing to Europe from conflict and violence. It focuses on the conceptualisation of conflict and violence in the countries of origin and the different approaches taken in the interpretation of them in the 1951 Refugee Convention, the Recast Qualification Directive of the European Union and the European Convention on Human Rights. It traces the hierarchical order of protection granted, starting with refugee protection status, to subsidiary protection status and finally with the negative protection from non-refoulement. Recent case law and asylum status determination practices of European countries illustrate the obstacles in the interpretation as well as the divergence in the applicatTable of Contents1. Introduction 2. Refugee Protection in the Context of Conflict and Violence 3. European Union Asylum Law and Persons Fleeing Conflict and Violence 4. European Human Rights Law Protection for Persons Fleeing Conflict and Violence 5. Conclusion

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Book SynopsisJurisdiction and Arbitration Agreements in Contracts for the Carriage of Goods by Sea focuses on party autonomy and its limitations in relation to jurisdiction and arbitration clauses included in contracts for the carriage of goods by sea in case of any cargo dispute. The author takes the perspective of the shipping companies and the shipowners, as these are the driving forces of the shipping industry due to their strategic importance.The book provides an analysis of the existing law on the recognition and validity of jurisdiction and arbitration clauses in the contracts for the carriage of goods by sea. The author also seeks to provide conclusions and to learn lessons for the future of the non-recognition and the non-enforcement of the clauses in the existing fragmented legal framework at an international, European Union, and national level (England & Wales and Spain). The interface between the different legal regimes reveals the lack of international harmonisation and the Table of ContentsPART I – PRELIMINARIES Chapter 1 Introduction PART II – JURISDICTION AND ARBITRATION AGREEMENTS IN CONTRACTS FOR THE CARRIAGE OF GOODS BY SEA Chapter 2 International jurisdiction and arbitration Chapter 3: Incorporation of the dispute resolution clauses contained in the charter party into the bill of lading PART III – LIMITATIONS ON JURISDICTION AND ARBITRATION AGREEMENTS IN MARITIME CARGO CLAIMS Chapter 4 Limitations on jurisdiction and arbitration agreements in case of cargo claims in tort and in bailment PART IV – LIMITATIONS ON JURISDICTION AND ARBITRATION AGREEMENTS BY THE ARREST OF SHIPS AND MANDATORY RULES Chapter 5 Party autonomy and the arrest of ships Chapter 6 Limitations on jurisdiction and arbitration clauses by public policy, mandatory rules and overriding mandatory rules in contracts for the carriage of goods by sea PART V – FINAL ANALYSIS Chapter 7 Conclusions and a new Perspective ANNEX I: Bibliography

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Book SynopsisAs esports has grown, the need for professional legal representation has grown with it. Justin's Essential Guide to the Business & Law of Esports & Professional Video Gaming provides a great baseline and will help prevent the legal horror stories of esports in the past. Mitch Reames, AdWeek and Esports InsiderJustinâs exploration of the business and law side of the esports sector fills a gap of knowledge that is an absolute necessity in truly understanding the esports space.Kevin Hitt, The Esports ObserverThe Essential Guide to the Business & Law of Esports & Professional Video Gaming covers everything you need to know about the past, present, and future of esports and professional video gaming. The book is written by one of the foremost attorneys and business practitioners in todayâs esports and professional gaming scene, Justin M. Jacobson, Esq. This guide is meant to provide you with an in-depth look at the business aTable of Contents1 Introduction to Esports & Professional Video Gaming Law 12 Intellectual Property Law and Its Impact on The Esports Business Ecosytem 553 Business and Tax Law and Its Impact on the Esports Business Ecosytem 734 Immigration and Employment Law and Its Impact on the Esports Business Ecosystem 895 Contract Law and Its Impact on the Esports Business Ecosytem 1036 Some Other Ancillary Esports Legal and Business Topics 171

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Book SynopsisInternational Law on the Aims of Education is a practical and tangible guide to the international legal standards on the aim and content of education. Using Article 29 of The Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) as a reference point, the book provides a detailed legal analysis of international minimum standards on how a child should be educated. The book adopts a traditional legal positivist approach to explore the scope and nature of international law on the aims of education. It is divided into three main questions: 1) What is international law and are the aims of education valid legal obligations? 2) What is the content and scope of these laws on the aims of education? 3) What are the obligations of authorities and teachers to respect and fulfil the law? The book is unique as the first book on international law dedicated separately to the aims of primary and secondary school education, not only focusing on human rights education. This book will Table of ContentsAbbreviations Preface Chapter 1: Introduction 1.1 The Concept "International Law on the Aims of Education" 1.2 The Concept of "Education" 1.3 The first international provision 1.4 The most important human right of them all 1.5 CESCR article 13 (1) 1.6 The Convention on the Rights of the Child 1.6.1 CRC article 29 (1) 1.6.2 Overall objective of education 1.7 Rights and duties 1.8 Summary Chapter 2: International Law and its Jurisprudence 2.1 Natural law v. legal positivism 2.2 What is international law 2.3 Good faith and ordinary meaning 2.3.1 Good faith 2.3.2 Ordinary meaning 2.4 Context 2.5 The Committee on the Rights of the Child (CtRC) 2.5.1 General Comments 2.5.2 Concluding Observations 2.5.3 Individual Complaint Jurisprudence 2.6 Other conventions and their treaty bodies 2.7 Object and Purpose 2.8 Legal validity 2.8.1 Effectiveness and legal validity 2.9 Summary and conclusions Chapter 3: Individual Aims of Education 3.1 Personality 3.1.1 Will and duty 3.1.2 Human personality and sense of dignity 3.2 Talents 3.3 Mental abilities 3.3.1 Literacy 3.3.2 Numeracy 3.3.3 Critical thinking 3.4 Physical abilities 3.5 Individual v. Collective education aims 3.6 Summary and conclusions Chapter 4: Human Rights Education 4.1 Respect for human rights 4.2 Human Rights Education as a concept of its own 4.3 Education ‘about’ human rights 4.4 Education ‘through’ human rights 4.5 Education ‘for’ human rights 4.6 Fundamental freedoms 4.7 The UN Charter 4.7.1 Peace Education 4.7.2 HRE based on the UN Charter 4.8 Warning 4.9 Geographical Relevance 4.10 Means in the fight against prejudice 4.11 Not Just a School Subject 4.12 Santa Claus human rights 4.13 Enforcement of human rights 4.14 Summary and conclusions Chapter 5: Respect for Culture, Values and Civilisations 5.1 The concept of respect 5.2 "Parents" 5.3 Their own cultural identity 5.4 The right to language and mother tongue 5.5 The child’s own values 5.6 "national values" 5.7 Civilisations 5.8 Summary and conclusions Chapter 6: Tolerance and Understanding 6.1 "responsible life in a free society" 6.2 "in the spirit of" 6.3 Understanding 6.4 Peace 6.5 Tolerance 6.6 Equality of sexes 6.7 Friendship 6.8 Peoples 6.9 Ethnic and national groups 6.10 Religious groups 6.11 Persons of indigenous origin 6.12 Cultural relativism 6.13 The balance between the letters "c" and "d" 6.14 Hate speech and freedom of expression 6.15 Summary and conclusions Chapter 7: Respect for Nature 7.1 Climate change education 7.1.1 The rights of future generations 7.2 Biological diversity 7.3 Indigenous rights and protection of the environment 7.4 Summary and conclusions Chapter 8: History Education 8.1 History education as an end in itself 8.2 History education as a means to eliminate prejudice and promote HRE 8.3 How history education should be taught 8.4 Denial of genocide 8.5 Summary and conclusions Chapter 9: State Obligations of Conduct and Results 9.1 "States Parties agree […]" 9.2 Progressive realisation 9.3 Obligation of conduct v. result 9.3.1 Obligation of conduct 9.4 Minimum core result 9.4.1 How to measure the results 9.4.2 Priorities between aims 9.5 National Plan 9.6 Teachers 9.6.1 The duties of teachers 9.7 Curriculum Reform and textbooks 9.7.1 Textbooks 9.8 The mass media 9.8.1 The right to Internet 9.9 Summary and conclusions Chapter 10: Concluding visionary last words References Books and articles UN Documents Case law Other reports Websites

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Book SynopsisThis edited collection is an interdisciplinary and international collaborative book that critically investigates the growing phenomenon of Indigenous-industry agreements â agreements that are formed between Indigenous peoples and companies involved in the extractive natural resource industry. These agreements are growing in number and relevance, but there has yet to be a systematic study of their formation and implementation. This groundbreaking collection is situated within frameworks that critically analyze and navigate relationships between Indigenous peoples and the extraction of natural resources. These relationships generate important questions in the context of Indigenous-industry agreements in diverse resource-rich countries including Australia and Canada, and regions such as Africa and Latin America. Beyond domestic legal and political contexts, the collection also interprets, navigates, and deploys international instruments such as the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples in order to fully comprehend the diverse expressions of Indigenous-industry agreements.Indigenous-Industry Agreements, Natural Resources and the Law presents chapters that comprehensively review agreements between Indigenous peoples and extractive companies. It situates these agreements within the broader framework of domestic and international law and politics, which define and are defined by the relationships between Indigenous peoples, extractive companies, governments, and other actors. The book presents the latest state of knowledge and insights on the subject and will be of value to researchers, academics, practitioners, Indigenous communities, policymakers, and students interested in extractive industries, public international law, Indigenous rights, contracts, natural resources law, and environmental law.Table of ContentsPart I: Theoretical and Conceptual Frameworks 1. Indigenous-Industry Agreements, Natural Resources and the Law: An Introduction 2. The (Legal) Nature of Indigenous Peoples’ Agreements with Extractive Companies 3. Essential Preconditions for an Indigenous-Industry Agreement with Community Legitimacy 4. Indigenous-Industry Agreements, Legal Uncertainty, and Risk Allocations Part II: Analytical and Critical Perspectives 5. Negotiated Agreements, Indigenous FPIC and the Mine Life Cycle 6. Gender Impact Analysis of Impact Benefit Agreements: Representation Clauses and UNDRIP 7. Who are the Métis? The Role of Free, Prior and Informed Consent in Identifying a Métis Rights-Holder Part III: Politics, Environment and Sustainability 8. The Contentious Politics of Impact and Benefit Agreements: A ‘Sons of the Soil’ Conflict Perspective 9. Impact Benefit Agreements, Transparency, and Sustainability 10. The Relationship between Indigenous-Industry Agreements and Environmental Assessment: Enhanced Credibility and Collaboration, or Undermining the Project Review Process? Part IV: Jurisdictional Case Studies 11. Contesting Indigenous-Industry Agreements in Latin America 12. Is this Really Benefit Sharing? Understanding Current Practices Around Community-Investor Agreements Tied to Land Investments 13. Enhancing the Benefits of Local Content in Extractive Industry Agreements: Legal Approaches and Trends in Frontier Extractive Jurisdictions 14. Indigenous Land Use Agreements in Australia: A Vehicle for Economic Prosperity or an Empty Gesture 15. Canadian Law and Realpolitik Regarding Indigenous-Industry Agreements 16. Towards Comprehensive Engagement: Indigenous-Industry Collaboration in the Resource Sector in Canada

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Book SynopsisWhile it has many connections to other topics in normative and applied ethics, discrimination is a central subject in philosophy in its own right. It plays a significant role in relation to many real-life complaints about unjust treatment or unjust inequalities, and it raises a number of questions in political and moral philosophy, and in legal theory. Some of these questions include: what distinguishes the concept of discrimination from the concept of differential treatment? What distinguishes direct from indirect discrimination? Is discrimination always morally wrong? What makes discrimination wrong? How should we eliminate the effects of discrimination? By covering a wide range of topics, and by doing so in a way that does not assume prior acquaintance, this handbook enables the reader to get to grips with the omnipresent issue.The Routledge Handbook of the Ethics of Discrimination is an outstanding reference source to this exciting subject and the first collection of its Trade Review"This is a comprehensive state of the art collection of essays on the ethics of discrimination that will be an invaluable resource for both researchers and students."Andrew Mason, University of Warwick, UK."This volume brings together a set of essays that combine rigorous conceptual analysis and incisive legally and empirically informed approaches on discrimination. Together they provide an indispensable, and timely, guide to understanding and disentangling the philosophical issues that surround the topic of discrimination in all its theoretical and normative dimensions. The Routledge Handbook of the Ethics of Discrimination is the most comprehensive resource to date for all who want to understand what discrimination exactly amounts to and how it bears on current social inequalities."Magali Bessone, Université de Rennes I, France.Table of ContentsThe philosophy of discrimination: an introduction (Kasper Lippert-Rasmussen). Part I: Conceptual issues. Chapter 1: Direct discrimination (Frej Klem Thomsen). Chapter 2: Indirect discrimination (Tarunabh Khaitan). Chapter 3:Statistical (and non-statistical) discrimination (Fred Schauer). Chapter 4: Epistemic discrimination (Katherine Puddifoot). Chapter 5: Discrimination and intersectionality (Natalie Stoljar). Part II: The wrongness of discrimination. Chapter 6: Discrimination and respect (Erin Beeghly). Chapter 7:Discrimination and social meaning (Deborah Hellman). Chapter 8: Discrimination and irrelevance (Lena Halldenius). Chapter 9: Discrimination and desert (Andres Moles). Chapter 10: Discrimination and rights (Peter Vallentyne). Chapter 11: Discrimination and equality of opportunity (Carl Knight). Chapter 12: Discrimination and harm (Richard Arneson). Chapter 13: Discrimination and freedom (Sophia Moreau). Chapter 14: Discrimination and virtue (J. L. A. Garcia). Part III: Groups of discriminates. Chapter 15: Discrimination and gender (Gina Schouten). Chapter 16: Discrimination and race (Patrick S. Shin). Chapter 17: Discrimination and religion (Sune Lægaard).Chapter 18: Discrimination and sexual orientation (Edward Stein). Chapter 19: Discrimination and disability (Sean Aas and David Wasserman). Chapter 20: Discrimination and age (Juliana Bidadanure). Chapter 21: Discrimination and immigration (José Jorge Mendoza). Chapter 22: Discrimination and obesity (Garrath Williams). Chapter 23: Discrimination and lookism (Xiaofei Liu). Chapter 24: Discrimination and trans identities (Mari Mikkola). Part IV: Sites of discrimination. Chapter 25: Discrimination and the job market (Sarah Goff). Chapter 26: Discrimination and education (Gideon Elford). Chapter 27: Discrimination and law enforcement (Re’em Segev). Chapter 28: Discrimination and insurance (Ronen Avraham). Chapter 29: Discrimination and politics (Nenad Stojanović). Chapter 30: Discrimination and the private sphere (Hugh Collins). Chapter 31: Discrimination and the personal sphere (Paul Butterfield and Hugh Lazenby). Part V: Causes and means. Chapter 32: The social psychology of discrimination (Jules Holroyd). Chapter 33: Discrimination and affirmative action (Julie Suk). Chapter 34: Discrimination and diversity (George Hull). Chapter 35: Wrongful private discrimination and the egalitarian ethos (Carina Fourie). Part VI: History. Chapter 36: Discrimination: word, concept, anti-norm - some historical sketches (Robert Fullinwider). Index

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Book SynopsisAs usage of the NEC (formerly the New Engineering Contract) family of contracts continues to grow worldwide, so does the importance of understanding its clauses and nuances to everyone working in the built environment. Currently in its third edition, this set of contracts is different to others in concept as well as format, so users may well find themselves needing a helping hand along the way.Understanding the NEC3 ECC Contract uses plain English to lead the reader through the NEC3 Engineering and Construction Contractâs key features, including: main and secondary options the use of early warnings programme provisions payment compensation events preparing and assessing tenders Common problems experienced when using the Engineering and Construction Contract are signalled to the reader throughout, and the correct way of reading each clause explained. The way the contract effects procurement processes, dispute resolution, project management, and risk management are all addressed in order to direct the user to best practice.Written for construction professionals, by a practicing international construction contract consultant, this handbook is the most straightforward, balanced and practical guide to the NEC3 ECC available. An ideal companion for employers, contractors, project managers, supervisors, engineers, architects, quantity surveyors, subcontractors, and anyone else interested in working successfully with the NEC3 ECC. Table of ContentsPreface. Introduction 1. Early Warnings 2. Design 3. Time 4. Testing & Defects 5. Payment 6. Compensation Events 7. Title 8. Insurance 9. Termination 10. Disputes 11. Tenders

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Book SynopsisBoth China and Europe have a long tradition of commercial and maritime law; and this new book examining various topics from their particular perspectives is both timely and important. It links the vital component of maritime law with commercial law, financial law and trade policy.The book has performed a remarkable task in making connections between China and Europe through the lenses of substantive and procedrual laws, covering a wide range of areas, including commercial law, insurance law, salvage, EU maritime law and Brexit, carriage of goods by sea, arbitration, mediation, litigation, the recently formed China International Commercial Court, and different liability regimes, as well as a brief look forward into new initiatives and artificial intelligence in the digital age.In these challenging times, we all have much to learn from each other in seeking to find answers to what are often difficult problems. This book provides a welcome opportunity for anyone intereste

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Book SynopsisThis book presents a legal genealogy of biodiversity of its strategic use before and after the adoption of the Convention on Biological Diversity, 1993.This history of genetic gold' details how, with the aid of international law, the idea of biodiversity has been instrumentalized towards political and economic aims. A study of the strategic utility of biodiversity, rather than the utility of its protection under international law, the book's focus is not, therefore, on the sustainable or non-sustainable use of biodiversity as a natural resource, but rather on its historical use as an intellectual resource. Although biodiversity is still not being effectively conserved, nor sustainably used, the Convention on Biological Diversity and its parent regime persists, now after several decades of operation. This book provides the comprehensive answer to the question of the convention's continued existence.Drawing from environmental history, the philosophy of science, politicaTable of Contents1. The ‘Undead’ Convention and Environmental Reason 2. Lambswool into Synthetic: Early Programmes 3. The Glare of International Law and the Grand Bargain 4. The Genetic Gold Rush 5. The Regulation of Genetic Gold 6.Conclusion - Still Here

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Book SynopsisMotherhood, Respectability and Baby-Farming in Victorian and Edwardian London explores a largely obscured marketplace of motherhood that provided ways for women to manage the stigma of illegitimacy and their respectable identities within Victorian and Edwardian society. It focuses on the extent of womenâs âdirty workâ, when maternal problem management was fundamental to the general maintenance of respectability and, by extension, to Empire and Civilisation.Despite its intrigue, history has struggled to understand and represent an uncomfortable but significant artefact of Western modernising society: âbaby-farmingâ. During a period when ideologies of respectability and civilisation arguably mattered most, the ârightâ kind of parenthood â especially motherhood â became paramount. As the âwrongâ offspring could jeopardise a womanâs chances of being respectable, a wholesale, informal, and somewhat clandestine marketplace emerged that catered to various maternal difficult

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Book SynopsisThrough an in-depth legal analysis by leading scholars, this book searches for the exact legal causes of land-related disputes in Asia within the histories, legal systems and social realities of the respective countries. It consists of four main parts: examining the relationship between law and development; land-taking in developmental stages; common ownership; and proposals for new approaches to land law and dispute resolution. With a combination of orthodox legal interpretations and the empirical approach of legal sociology, the contributors undertake an extensive comparative legal analysis across common and civil law traditions. Most importantly, they propose pathways forward for legal transformations in the pursuit of sustainable development in Asia. This book is vital contribution to the study of comparative law, and especially property law, in East and Southeast Asia. Table of ContentsPart I: Model Conflict in Land Law and Civil Code Drafting 1. "Origin of Land Disputes: Reviving Colonial Apparatus in Land Law Reforms" 2. "Land Ownership in Cambodia: Inter-Donor Debates for the Protection of Private Rights in Development" 3. "Lao Civil Code and Land Law Debates" 4. "Land Law Reform and Civil Code Drafting in Vietnam: How to Balance the Conflicting Needs for Land" Part II: Land Taking for "Development" and Beyond 5. "Takings for Private Use/Private Interest and Livelihood Compensation in Japan" 6. "What enables a private party to expropriate an individual from an estate in Korea?" 7. "Public-Interest Requirements of Zone Expropriation in Taiwan" 8. "Land Expropriation and Compensation in China" Part III: Securing Commons in the Old and New Property Regime 9. "Vacant Properties in Japan: A New Challenge for the Study of the Commons and Land Laws in Asia" 10. "Land Disputes in Indonesia: Consistency of Supreme Court and Constitutional Court Judgments" 11. "Right of Commons under Japan’s Civil Code" 12. "The Concept of Juridical Personality and the Autonomy of Villagers’ Committees in China "Part IV: Land Law toward Alternative "Development" 13. "Land Law Reforms in Asian Emerging Economies: Toward Balanced Development" 14. "The Role of Administrative Courts in Vietnam in Solving Land Disputes: Legal and Political Boundaries" 15. "Land Law and Disputes in Myanmar: A Historical Struggle for Redefining the Property Rights" 16. "Asian Land Conflicts and the Great Transformation: Fallacy of the Law and Development Long-Term View".

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Book SynopsisMoral rationalism and Shari’a is the first attempt at outlining the scope for a theological reading of Sharī 'a, based on a critical examination of why the 'Adliyya theological ethics hasn’t significantly impacted Shī'ī readings of Shari’a and how these resources may come to do so. Table of ContentsIntroduction 1 Reason as a source of Sharī 'a in Shī 'ī usūl al-fiqh 2 The intelligibility of moral values in Shī 'ī theological thought 3 The nature of morality, rationality and independent judgments of rational morality in modern Shī 'ī usūl al-fiqh 4 The nature of morality, rationality and independent judgments of rational morality in modern Shī 'ī usūl al-fiqh 5 Reassessing the obstacles to independent judgments of rational morality impacting the reading of Sharī 'a

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Book SynopsisThis book addresses six areas of policing: performance management, professional and academic partnerships, preventing and fighting crime and terrorism, immigrant and multicultural populations, policing the police, and cyber-security. The book contains the most current and ground-breaking research across the world of policing with contributors from over 20 countries. It is also a suitable reference or textbook in a special topics course. It consists of edited versions of the best papers presented at the IPES annual meeting in Budapest.Table of ContentsSection I: LEADERSHIP AND ACCOUNTABILITY1 Policing: Continuity and Change PETER C. KRATCOSKI2 Police Executive Leadership and Police Legitimacy VIPUL KUMAR3 On the Acceptability of Closer Public–Private Policing Partnerships: Views from the Public Side STEPHEN B. PERROTT AND KRYSTINA TRITES4 Reactive and Proactive Measures of Police Corruption Control: Comparative Study in Three Countries BRANISLAV SIMONOVIC, MAXIMILIAN EDELBACHER, AND BAKHIT NURGALIYEVSection II: ANALYSIS5 Using Complaints against the Police to Improve Community–Police Relations JANE GOODMAN-DELAHUNTY, MIRA TAITZ, CHANTAL SOWEMIMO-COKER, AND IDA NGUYEN6 Cybercrime, Cyberattacks, and Problems of Implementing Organizational Cybersecurity ANTHONY MINNAAR7 Intelligence Analysis: A Key Tool for Modern Police Management—The Romanian Perspective SORINA-MARIA COFAN AND AUREL-MIHAIL BĂLOISection III: SATISFACTION AND COMMUNITY CONNECTIONS8 Paradigm Shift in Hong Kong Public Order Policing WING KWONG YUNG AND SANDY CHAU9 Citizen Satisfaction with Police: The Effects of Income Level and Prior Victimization Experiences on Citizen Perceptions of Police ROBERT D. HANSER, CREEL S. GALLAGHER, AND ATTAPOL KUANLIANG10 Transformations in Policing—Two Decades of Experience in Community Policing in Slovenia BRANKO LOBNIKAR, GORAZD MEŠKO, AND MAJA MODIC11 Policing by Consent: Exploring the Possibilities of Functional Linkage between Local Police Station and Panchayat SONY KUNJAPPANThe International Police Executive Symposium Index

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Book SynopsisIn America's courtooms, the verdict is laughter.

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