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Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales) Feminist and Queer Legal Theory Intimate Encounters Uncomfortable Conversations
Book SynopsisA collection that engages in a rigorous and sometimes contentious exploration of the legal, political, social and cultural implications of the authors' distinct theoretical approaches to gender and sexuality.Trade Review'This exploration of tensions among feminist and queer theorists is possibly the most useful theory anthology of the decade. Tensions are put in play by placing superlative essays in each other's path and letting the provocations rip. Sure to produce a watershed moment for the trajectories of both theory genres, the anthology is so smartly organized and interspersed with incisive editorial material that it will teach itself.' Wendy Brown, University of California, Berkeley, USA '... an eclectic and interesting collection of essays rethinking legal categories and policies through feminist and gay perspectives. In this volume, one will encounter the sexual family, the sanitized workplace, compulsory matrimony, transgressive caretaking, and other iconoclastic concepts.' William Eskridge, Yale University, USATable of ContentsIntroduction: Feminist and Queer Legal Theory; Queer With or Without Feminist Legal Theory?; Queer Theory by Men 1; Theorizing Yes: An Essay On Feminism, Law, and Desire 1; The Sexual Family 1; The Sanitized Workplace Revisited 1; Queering Sexual Orientation: A Call for Theory as Praxis; Feminist With or Without Queer Legal Theory?; How Queer Theory Makes Neoliberalism Sexy; Proper Objects, Different Subjects and Juridical Horizons in Radical Legal Critique; A Few Words in Favor of Cultivating an Incest Taboo in the Workplace 1; Care and Feminists 1; Methodological Descriptions: “Feminist” and “Queer” Legal Theories; Pluralizing Difference; The Epistemic Contract of Bisexual Erasure 1; Black Rights, Gay Rights, Civil Rights; The Transgender Rights Imaginary 1; Compulsory Monogamy and Polyamorous Existence 1; The Politics and Law of Kinship, Intimacy, and Care; This Is Not Your Father's Autonomy: Lesbian and Gay Rights From a Feminist and Relational Perspective 1; Compulsory Matrimony; From Paternafare to Marriage Promotion: Sexual Regulation and Welfare Reform; Transgressive Caregiving; Law and Strategy at the Crossroads of Feminist and Queer Legal Theories; The Troubled Relationship of Feminist and Queer Legal Theory to Strategic Essentialism: Theory/Praxis, Queer Porn, and Canadian Anti-discrimination Law; Poststructuralism on Trial; Queer Victory, Feminist Defeat? Sodomy and Rape in Lawrence v. Texas; Postscript: Curious Encounters, Unpredictable Conversations
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John Wiley & Sons Inc Handbook of Public Law and Administration
Book SynopsisProvides an authoritative, jargon--free overview of all aspects of public law and how it affects the public administrator's job and responsibilities. Contributors include judges, legal experts, public administration scholars, and practicing administrators.Table of ContentsPUBLIC LAW FOUNDATIONS OF PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION. Faithful Execution of the Laws, Rule of Law, and Autonomy of Public Administration (C. Newland). Public Law and Public Management: A Conceptual Framework (C. Kerwin). The Importance of Public Law: New and Old Paradigms of Government Management (R. Moe). PRACTICAL FRAMEWORKS OF PUBLIC LAW AND ADMINISTRATION. The Law-Politics Dialogue: It's Not All Courts! (L. Fisher). Legal Authorities and Administration Actions (R. Gilmour & H. Sellers). Techniques of Legal Interpretation and Why They Matter (H. Ball). Public Law as a Set of Tools for Management (P. Cooper). WHO HAS THE POWER AND WHERE ARE THE LIMITS? Separation of Powers with Checks and Balances: The Search for Workability (C. Newland). Who Does the Work? Federalism and the Changing Nature of Intergovernmental Relations (L. O'Toole). Local Implementation of Federal and Stat Programs: Preemption, Home Rule and Federalism (B. Cigler). ADMINISTRATIVE LAW AND TODAY'S STREET-LEVEL CHALLENGES. Executive Direct Administration: The Importance to Public Administration of Executive Orders and Proclamations (J. Utter & P. Cooper). Ordinances, Statutes, and Democratic Discipline: A Local Perspective on Drafting Laws (D. Corliss). Negotiated Rulemaking (C. Kerwin). The "How Much Process Is Due?" Debate: Legal and Managerial Perspectives (H. Rainey). CIVIL SERVANTS, SUPERVISORS AND CHANGING LAW. The First AmAndment and the Public Sector (D. O'Brien). Constitutions, Statutes, Regulations, and Labor Relations: Dispute Resolution in a Complex Authority Mix (N. Riccucci). Privacy and Integrity Testing for Public Employees: Searches, Drug Testing, Polygraphs, and Medical Examinations (N. Cayer). The Raging Debate Over Equality: Nondiscrimination, Affirmative Action, and the Civil Rights Act (M. Kurtz). Gender Issues in the Workplace: Compensation, Reproductive Safety, Family Obligations, and Sexual Harassment (M. Guy & S. Calvert). Public Law in the Changing Civil Service (L. Nigro). ACCOUNTABILITY: LAW AGAINST MANAGEMENT? Law versus Ethics (W. Richardson). Open Government and Freedom of Information: Fishbowl Accountability (L. Feinberg). Problems of Discretion and Responsibility: The Debate over Tort Liability (B. Jenkins & R. Kearl). Court Involvement in Operations of State and Local Institutions: Injunctions and Other Remedies for Maladministration (P. Cooper). The Balancing Act of Judicial Review: Ensuring Enough Deference to Administrators and Enough Accountability (R. O'Leary & P. Weiland). LAW IN PUBLIC POLICY. Government Lawyers: Who Represents Government and Why Does it Matter? (C. Clayton). Race, Education, and the Legal and Administrative Systems: Perpetual Tensions (C. Washington). Legal Impacts on Budgets and Finance: Anticipating Problems and Reacting to Realities (T. Lauth & P. Cooper). Legal Issues in Contracting for Public Services: When Business Does Government (R. DeHoog). Alternative Dispute Resolution in Public Administration (L. Bingham). Conclusion: Present and Future Challenges. The Future of Public Law: Public Law and National Borders (C. Wise).
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MY - University of Toronto Press The Hateful and the Obscene Studies in the
Book SynopsisThe Hateful and the Obscene is a compelling interpretation of freedom of expression that combines serious philosophical thought with a focus on Canadian law, thus maintaining the breadth to deal with both obscenity and hate literature.Trade Review"'L.W. Sumner's balanced and careful book will become an important and controversial lodestar in Canadian debates about freedom of speech under the Charter... This is a contribution of such seriousness and argumentative power that all opponents will need to consider it very carefully.' Frederick Schauer, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University"
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University of Toronto Press Sexual Abuse and the Rights of Children
Book SynopsisThe sexual abuse of children is an area of increasing concern to social services agencies, lawmakers, and the general public. Recent reforms of the legislation in this area have been influenced by the emerging field of children’s rights. Terrence Sullivan takes a critical look at the reforms and raises provocative questions about who is empowered by developments and who is not.The Canadian constitution potentially offers an important vehicle in advancing individuals rights. Sullivan reviews the emergence of child abuse and child sexual abuse as a ‘new’ object of social inquiry and regulation within the context of childhood sexuality, which has historically been subject to extensive regulation in the hand of professionals. He explores the rise of child sexual vulnerability on the public agenda, and tracks the role and influence of specialized professional knowledge in stimulating and steering legislative reform.Sullivan concludes that court decision
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University of Toronto Press The Hateful and the Obscene
Book SynopsisIn a series of landmark decisions since 1990, Canadian courts have shaped a distinctive approach to the regulation of obscenity, hate literature, and child pornography. Missing from the debate, however, has been any attempt to determine whether the legal status quo can be justified by reference to a framework of moral/political principles. The Hateful and the Obscene is intended to fill that gap.L.W. Sumner brings philosophical depth and theoretical rigour to some of the most important and difficult questions concerning free expression. Building on a framework set out by J.S. Mill – that a legal restriction of expression is justified only when the expression in question is harmful to others and when the benefits of the restriction will exceed its costs – Sumner shows how the Canadian courts have replicated Mill's framework in their interpretation of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms.The Hateful and the Obscene is a compelTrade Review"'L.W. Sumner's balanced and careful book will become an important and controversial lodestar in Canadian debates about freedom of speech under the Charter... This is a contribution of such seriousness and argumentative power that all opponents will need to consider it very carefully.' Frederick Schauer, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University"
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John Wiley & Sons Native Removal Writing Narratives of Peoplehood
Book SynopsisDuring the Standing Rock Sioux protest against the Dakota Access Pipeline, an activist observed, “Forced removal isn’t just in the history books.” Sabine Meyer concurs, noting the prominence of Indian Removal, the policy of expelling Native peoples from their land, in Native American aesthetic and political praxis across the centuries.
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MP-OKL Uni of Oklahoma Pueblo Sovereignty Indian Land and Water in New
Book SynopsisOver five centuries of foreign rule, Native American pueblos have confronted attacks on their sovereignty and encroachments on their land and water rights. How five New Mexico and Texas pueblos did this, in some cases multiple times, forms the history of cultural resilience and tenacity chronicled in Pueblo Sovereignty.
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Taylor & Francis Inc Understanding Victimology An ActiveLearning
Book SynopsisUnderstanding Victimology: An Active-Learning Approach explains what the field of victimology isâincluding its major theoretical perspectives and research methodsâand provides insight into the dynamics of various offline and online crimes from the victimsâ vantage point. It is the only textbook to provide numerous innovative active learning exercises to enhance and reinforce student learning, and it addresses important contemporary topics that have thus far not been covered by other victimology texts, including identity theft, hate crimes, and terrorism. This unique and relevant work is ideal for students, academics, and practitioners who are interested in a comprehensive introduction to victimology.Trade Review'This is the most dynamic victimology text on the market. It is truly intersectional and comprehensive in its treatment of victims, contains hands-on active learning exercises that increase understanding and empathy, and provides great information for future practitioners of every stripe. I've been looking for this text for 20 years.' – Elicka Peterson Sparks, Department of Government and Justice Studies, Appalachian State UniversityTable of Contents 1. Introduction to Victimology. 2. Theories of Victimization. 3. Victims’ Rights and Remedies. 4. Hybrid and Online Victimization. 5. Personal and Property Victimization. 6. Rape, Sexual Assault, and Kidnapping. 7. Intimate Partner Violence. 8. School and Work Victimization. 9. Victimization of Special Populations. 10. Hate Crimes and Terrorism.
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University of Arizona Press Traditional National and International Law and
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Bath Publishing Ltd Court of Protection Made Clear
Book SynopsisThe book deliberately sets out to bridge the gap between the people using the Court and the professionals who advise them so that all involved can make fully informed decisions about money and welfare at what can be a stressful time.Using plain English, it demystifies the law, language and procedure and is enhanced by a raft of invaluable flowcharts, tables and model documents that help put the guidance into practice.While accessible to the non-lawyer the book also provides the professional legal adviser with a quick, clear first point of reference
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Witness Protection and Criminal Justice in Africa
Book SynopsisThis book examines the concept of witness protection which is still at an early developmental stage in several African countries including Nigeria, from a legal and institutional perspective. Recent developments in Nigeria highlight the need to clarify legal and conceptual issues within the existing legal framework for protecting witnesses. Using the Nigerian case study, the book illustrates some obscurities inherent in the concept of witness protection. These are highlighted around five critical areas: the definition of witness protection; the scope of beneficiaries requiring protection; the nature of crimes necessitating protection; the nature of protective measures; and the administrative control of witness protection. Specifically, this book draws from the existing literature and practices of witness protection and adopts two distinct perspectives: the criminal justice perspectives and human rights perspectives as heuristic tools for analysing the concept and to separate Table of ContentsPrefaceAcknowledgements Abbreviations1. Introduction2. Deconstructing the Concept of Witness Protection3. The Legal Framework for Witness Protection in Nigeria4. Determining the Classes of Witnesses to be Protected5. Crimes Requiring Protection6. Types of Protective Measures for Witnesses7. The Institutional Framework for Witness Protection: Challenges and Prospects8. The Future of the Nigerian Practice of Witness ProtectionList of References
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Regulating Transnational Heritage
Book SynopsisThere is a vast body of international and national law that regulates cultural heritage. However, the current regulation remains quite blind to the so called transnational heritage. This is heritage where there is no community recognized in law that it can be directly attributed to and that can be responsible for its safekeeping and preservation. It can also be items of heritage where the claim of ownership is disputed between two or more peoples or communities. Transnational heritage challenges the idea of monolithic, mono-cultural, ethno-national states. There are a number of examples of such cultural heritage, for instance the Buddhist Bamiyan statutes in Afghanistan, Palmyra in Syria, the Jewish heritage of Iraq, or various items that are currently housed in large, often Western, museums, as a result of colonial practices. This book explores the regulation of transnational heritage. By discussing many cases of transnational heritage and the problems that arise due to the laTable of ContentsPrologue 1. Introduction 2. Matter: Current regulation and transnational heritage 3. Movement: Heritage without borders 4. Diversity: Transnational cultural heritage 5. Constellations: The transnational in community 6. Memories: New regulatory approaches Epilogue
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Taylor & Francis The Mobility Control Apparatus
Book SynopsisThis book critically explores the complexities of intra-Schengen border control and migration dynamics within Europe. It provides a comprehensive analysis of how various actors, including border officials and state apparatuses, interact in managing mobility and enforcing controls. The theoretical foundation draws on Foucaultâs concept of the dispositif, examining how borders are enforced through a combination of legal frameworks, discourses, and on-the-ground practices.The book emphasizes the importance of discretion in border control, arguing that it plays a pivotal role in shaping decisions at both the organizational and street levels. It delves into the experiences of Dutch border control officers and the wider European context, offering a comparative analysis of Poland and Germany's intra-Schengen borderlands. By drawing on real-world case studies, it showcases the tensions between security and mobility, and how migration is managed through both visible and covert policin
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Community Justice Centres
Book SynopsisThis book examines the phenomenon of Community Justice Centres and their potential to transform the justice landscape by tackling the underlying causes of crime.Marred by recidivism, addiction, family violence, overflowing courtrooms, crippling prison spending and extreme rates of incarceration, the criminal justice system is in crisis. Community Justice Centres seek to combat this by tackling the underlying causes of crime in a particular neighbourhood and working with local people to redesign the experience of justice and enhance the notion of community. A Community Justice Centre houses a court which works with an interdisciplinary team to address the causes of criminality such as drug addiction, cognitive impairment, mental illness, poverty, abuse and intergenerational trauma. The community thus becomes a key agent of change, partnering with the Centre to tackle local issues and improve safety and community cohesion. This book, based on research into this innovativeTable of ContentsPreface. Introduction: Court Reform and the Community Justice Centre Experience – Midtown and Beyond. 2 The Community Justice Centre Model. 3 Case studies of Community Justice. 4 Lessons from Community Justice: Evaluations, Boundaries and Obstacles. 5 The Possibilities of Mainstreaming the Model. 6 Conclusion: The Future of Community Justice: Prospects and Challenges.
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Sport and Crime
Book SynopsisThis is the first book to explore fully the connections between sport studies and criminology, opening up critical new frontiers in the study of sport and crime.Rooted firmly in established critical criminological traditions, the book also employs insights from emerging theoretical frameworks such as cultural criminology, governmentality theory and critical security studies to make better sense of a range of transnational and contemporary cases, events and trends that reveal, in different ways, the crimes and harms that are present in sport. Empirically grounded, including case studies of the 2022 World Cup in Qatar and the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games, it explores emerging themes in contemporary sport, including but not limited to corruption, doping, youth crime, terrorism, violence and transgression, and human rights abuses. Sport and Crime consciously pushes the boundaries of what might be considered the critical criminology of sport.This is an essential text forTable of Contents1. Introduction, 2. Sport and the Critical Criminological Imagination, 3. Sport, Corruption and White-Collar ‘Criminality’: Crimes of the Powerful (1), 4. Governing Young People and Communities through Sport?, 5. Modes of Security, Governance and Surveillance in Sport, 6. Cultural Criminology, Sport and Transgression, 7. Sport and Social Harms - Qatar and World Cup 2022 in Focus: Crimes of the Powerful (2), 8. Conclusion: (Even) Further towards a Critical Criminology of Sport
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Taylor & Francis Restorative Justice and Contemporary Political
Book SynopsisOutlining an original analysis of the political dimension of restorative justice, this book seeks both to enhance the critical comprehension of this phenomenon and to forge new tools for acting politically through restorative justice, inviting restorative justice scholars, practitioners and advocates to become a radical political movement.Restorative justice is widely studied, nationally and internationally legislated, and increasingly practised; however, the growth of relevant policy, practice and research has been only marginally accompanied by the development of updated, theoretically informed and critical reflections on the relationships between politics and restorative justice. This is a significant problem since neglecting the political dimension may limit the capacity of the restorative justice movement to critically appreciate its possible role in confronting oppressive social and political arrangements. This book addresses this gap by providing reflections on restora
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Law Vulnerability and the Responsive State
Book SynopsisThis book considers how vulnerability theory provides the basis for a reconceptualization of the liberal ideas of autonomy, equality, and freedom.Vulnerability theory argues a vulnerable legal subject should displace the liberal legal subject that currently dominates law and policy. The theory is based on the fundamental empirical realities of the material body and offers an alternative to a social contract or rights-based notion of state responsibility, both of which tend to privilege abstractions such as rationality or dignity. A vulnerability analysis poses law and policy questions based on the vulnerable legal subject and requires new thinking about state or governmental responsibility. To achieve a truly comprehensive and inclusive notion of what constitutes social justice or a universal or common good, vulnerability theory mandates a reassessment of both equality and freedom as these concepts are currently conceived. Presenting the work of scholars from a wide range of Table of ContentsList of Contributors Introduction: Understanding Vulnerability Martha Albertson FinemanI. The Fallacy and Foibles of Vulnerability as Particular II. Vulnerability Theory A. Reasoning From the Body B. Embedded—The Necessity of Social (and Legal) ArrangementsIII. Theoretical Implications of “Reasoning From the Body” IV. Conclusion PART ILegal Structures: The Constitution and the Mechanisms of Justice 1 Restructuring the Constitution for Human Resilience Martha T. McCluskeyIntroduction I. Structural Principles for Constitutional Power II. Contemporary Right-Wing Constitutional Restructuring III. Vulnerability Theory’s Constitutional Reframing IV. Affirming the Administrative State for Human Resilience V. Conclusion 2 Vulnerability Theory and Access to Justice: Elaborating Possibilities for Legal System Design Andrew Pilliar1. Background on Access to Justice a. What Is “Access to Justice”? b. How Common Are Access to Justice Problems? 2. Situating Vulnerability a. Vulnerability Theory and Responsive Law b. Vulnerability Theory and the Capability Approach 3. Realizing Person-Centred Access to Justice 4. Conclusion PART IIRole of Social Movements in Vulnerability Theory 3 Toward a Responsive Landscape: The Role of Social Movements in Vulnerability Theory Kathryn AbramsIntroduction I. Learning From Social Movements: Cultivating Resilience in Arizona II. Social Movements and Vulnerability Theory: Three Questions A. Do Social Movements Help to Meet Human Vulnerability?III. How Does the Work of Social Movements Relate to the Activity of the Responsive State? A. Density and Effects of Regulatory Frameworks IV. Directions for Vulnerability Theory 4 Law, Public Policy, and Social Movements to Supportand Strengthen Individual and Collective Interests of Labor Risa L. LieberwitzIntroduction I. The Role of the State to Provide for the Public Welfare A. The Vision of the Responsive State B. The Reality of the Unresponsive State in the U.S. II. The Role of the State in the Employment Relationship A. The “Private Welfare” System in the U.S. B. The Liberal Contradictions of the National Labor Relations Act C. Legislative Reforms to Move Toward a Responsive State D. Recent Legal and Social Developments that Resonate With the Reforms of the PRO Act III. Conclusion PART IIIOrganizing the Economic Infrastructure 5 The Corporation, Vulnerability, and Resilience Lua Kamál YuilleIntroduction I. Vulnerability, the Human Condition, and the Liberal Legal Subject II. Understanding Resilience III. The Corporation as a Site of Resilience A. Conceiving of the Corporation B. Corporate Resilience IV. Toward a Responsive State Approach to the Corporation 6 Market Citizenship, Resilience Drainage, and the Role of Private LawHila Keren and Ronit Donyets-Kedar Introduction I. The Private-Public Divide and the Role of Private Law II. Resisting Resilience Drainage via Contract Law A. The Problem: Market Rejections and Humiliation B. A Vulnerability-Based Response III. Resisting Resilience Drainage via Corporate Law A. The Problem of Market Evangelism B. A Vulnerability-Based Response IV. Conclusion PART IVThe Public Nature of “Private” Property 7 Housing Trusts and Resilient Cities: Hierarchy, Resources, and Resilience Marc L. RoarkVulnerability and Affordable Housing Resilience Affordable Housing as an Inherent Vulnerability How Cities Sought Resilience in the Form of Housing Trust Funds Scale, Resilience Gaps, and Responsibility 8 Vulnerability, Resilience, and the Fair Housing Act Xiaoqian HuI. Some Limits of the FHA A. Excessive Deference to Defense B. Illegal Immorality Versus Legal Privilege C. A Vulnerability Evaluation II. Reinterpreting the FHA Through Vulnerability Theory A. A Social-Situational View of Harm and Discrimination B. A Reconceptualized State for Systemic Action III. ConclusionPART VThe Ultimate “Private” Space—The Construction of the Family 9 The Elder Catch: Engineering the Future of CaregivingJessica Dixon WeaverI. Vulnerability Theory and Resistant Assets A. The Taxonomy of Vulnerability Theory B. Resistant Assets and the Non-Responsive State II. The Family as a Resistant Asset III. State and Market Response to the Elder Catch 10 Vulnerability Theory and the Conception of Time June Carbone and Naomi CahnPart I: The Pandemic Part II: Secure Versus Precarious Family Regimes Part III: Vulnerability Theory PART VIDimensions of Public and Private in Health Care 11 A Vulnerability Approach to the “Right to Health Care”: Addressing Epistemic Vulnerability Matthew B. LawrenceIntroduction A. The “Right to Health Care” and the Challenges of an Entitlement Approach 1. The Popular “Right to Health Care” 2. Operationalizing the “Right to Health Care”: The Role of Theory 3. Entitlement Approach and Its Limitations B. Vulnerability Approach: From Entitlement to Obligation 1. Vulnerability Replaces Individual Entitlement With Collective (or State) Obligation 2. What Is the Content of the State’s Obligation? 3. A Collective, Procedural Right to Priority C. Addressing Epistemic Vulnerability 1. Epistemic Vulnerability 2. Respond or Reject? 3. Separating Stepping Stones From Stumbling Blocks 12 Disability, Vulnerability, and Public Health Emergencies Ani B. SatzIntroduction I. Limits of Current Approaches II. Reasoning From the Body III. Disability, the Vulnerable Subject, and Health Law IV. Disability and the Vulnerable Institution: Hospitals and Public Health Authorities V. Disability and Resilience in Public Health Emergencies VI. Conclusion PART VIIVulnerability and Sovereignty 13 Using Vulnerability Theory to Reconceive the Relationships Between Native Nations, the United States, and State Governments Nazune Menka and Laura SpitzIntroduction I. (Dependent) Sovereignty a. Background: Sovereignty and Liberalism b. Domestic Dependent Nations II. Using Vulnerability Theory to Reconceptualize Sovereignty and the Doctrines of Plenary Power and Trust Responsibility a. Assertion of Tribal Sovereignty Remains a Critical Component of Inherent Indigenous Power b. Sovereignty Is Inter-Dependent c. Indigenous Peoples Are Not a Vulnerable Population d. Trust Responsibility Can and Should Be Detached From the Doctrine of Plenary Power III. A Contemporary Example: The Indian Child Welfare Act IV. Conclusion: Vulnerability Theory, Tribal Sovereignty and Federal Responsibility Index
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Taylor & Francis Femicide Criminology and the Law
Book SynopsisThis book offers an interdisciplinary perspective on femicide, using Israel as an illuminating case study, given its diverse communities and common-law-based legal system. Utilizing analytical alongside practical perspectives, the book offers a novel crimino-legal approach to femicide. In addition to its interdisciplinary novelty, the book presents originality in going beyond the more usual focus on the central victims and the common legal tools. Here, the authors extend the analysis to secondary victims of femicide and examine the applicability of second-tiered relevant legal tools, mostly tort law, as a means for gaining justice for the victims. This explorative journey culminates with the authorsâ definition of femicide as a quintessential crime of distinct nature. In the context of current international pledges to better understand and consequently better fight femicide, this work allows readers to comprehend the phenomenon and the ways to abolish it. The book will be an invalua
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Wrongful Imprisonment
Book SynopsisFirst published in 1973, Wrongful Imprisonment aims to combine the human interest of individual cases of wrongful imprisonment with a general analysis of how and why they occur. It deals in detail with the English system, but also provides comparisons with Scotland, France, and the United States. The authors spent three years collecting material from newspaper reports, trial transcripts, books, lawyers, the Home Office and most important interviews with the persons concerned. As a result, they have been able to analyse objectively the existing system of justice; they have isolated and identified the areas in which the system is at fault, and the successive hazards which may confront the innocent man suspected of a criminal offence; they have also revealed the many obstacles which have to be overcome by the wrongfully imprisoned man seeking to establish his innocence and regain his liberty. This topical and convincingly argued book should appeal not only to students of law aTable of ContentsForeword Preface Acknowledgements 1. Wrongful Imprisonment? 2. Identification Evidence 3. Confessions and Statements 4. Trial Proceedings 5. Witnesses Credible and Incredible 6. How They Got Off 7. Consequences 8. The French System 9. The American Experience 10. Scales of Injustice Epilogue Appendix Reference Notes Index
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Taylor & Francis Ltd The Forgotten Survivors of Gun Violence
Book SynopsisThe toll of America's gun violence epidemic is usually measured in lives lostmore than 35,000 each year. Ignored, almost completely, are the many more people who are shot every year, and survive. Shot and Forgotten, The TraceNearly 40,000 people die from gun violence in the US every year. This uniquely American crisis leaves no community untouchedbut it doesn't have to be this way. Gabrielle GiffordsThe Forgotten Survivors of Gun Violence collects 20 personal essays of survivors' visible and invisible wounds from school shootings, attempted suicide by firearm, mass shootings, gang violence, and domestic violence. Their stories remind us that these traumatic experiences are not exclusive to combat soldiers but, more notably, suffered by ordinary people during modern life. With this collection, editors Loren Kleinman,Shavaun Scott, Sandy Phillips andLonnie Phillips expose the true lifecycle of a bullet and the trauma left in its wTable of Contents1 Armed Assault2 Armed Intruder3 Armed Robbery4 Domestic Violence5 Hate Crime6 Mass Shooting7 Random Open Fire8 School Shootings9 Support Resources for Survivors, Their Loved Ones and Advocates
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Community Justice
Book SynopsisCommunity Justice discusses concepts of community within the context of justice policy and programs and addresses the important relationship between the criminal justice system and the community in the USA.Taking a bold stance in the criminal justice debate, this book argues that crime management is more effective through the use of informal (as opposed to formal) social control. It demonstrates how an increasing number of criminal justice elements are beginning to understand that developing partnerships within the community that enhance informal social control will lead to stabilization and possibly a decline in crime, especially violent crime, and make communities more livable. Borrowing from an eclectic toolbox of ideas and strategies community organizing, environmental crime prevention, privatepublic partnerships, and justice initiatives Community Justice puts forward a new approach to establishing safe communities and highlights the failure of the curre
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Taylor & Francis Ltd The Foundations of Vulnerability Theory
Book SynopsisThis volume is the first collection of Martha Albertson Fineman’s most important and influential work.Table of ContentsIntroduction Jennifer Hickey Part I. Gender Equality Introduction Deborah Dinner 1. The Equality Ideal 2. Challenging Law, Establishing Differences 3. Equality Discourse and Economic Decisions Made at Divorce 4. The Individualization of the Family: Child Advocacy 5. The Illusion of Equality Part II. The Sexual Family Introduction Teemu Ruskola 6. The End of Family Law? Intimacy in the Twenty-First Century 7. A Claim for Justice Part III. Dependency Introduction Michael Thomson 8. A Dystopian Fantasy 9. Dependency and Social Debt: Cracking the Foundational Myths 10. The New Tokenism Part IV. Autonomy Introduction Martha McCluskey 11. Equality and Autonomy 12. Posing the Philosophy for an Active State 13. What Place for Family Privacy? Part V. Vulnerability Introduction Aziza Ahmed 14. Vulnerability and Inevitable Inequality 15. Equality and Difference – The Restrained State 16. The “Still Face” of a Compassionately-Challenged Society 17. Injury in the Unresponsive State 18. Vulnerability and Social Justice 19. Conclusion: Resilience is the Watchword Lua Kamál Yuille Afterword Atieno Mboya Samandari
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Taylor & Francis Ltd The Routledge International Handbook of
Book SynopsisDisability is defined by hierarchy. Regardless of culture or context, persons with disabilities are almost always pushed to the bottom of the social hierarchy.With the advent of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (2006), disability human rights seemingly provided a path forward for tearing down ableist social hierarchies and ensuring that all persons with disabilities everywhere were treated equally. Despite important progress, the disability human rights project not only remains incomplete, but has often created new hierarchies among persons with disabilities themselves or across the human rights it promotes. Certain groups of persons with disabilities have gained new voices while others remain silenced and certain rights are prioritized over others depending on what states, international organizations, or advocates want rather than what those on the ground need most.This volume was inspired both by the continued need to expose human rights violTable of Contents0.Introduction. Part One - Who counts as disabled? 1.Knowing about Human Rights Situation of Burn Survivors Women of Bangladesh. 2.Creating a STORM: Working together to fight stigma and stand up for the rights of people with learning disabilities. 3.Rethinking the capacities of disabled children from the perspective of new materialism. 4.A Journey to Realize Autistic’s Right. 5."To tremble, else break": Dismanlting Normative Hierarchies of Chronic Lyme. 6.The Balancing Act: Disability at the intersection of minority ethnicity. 7.Mental health service users claiming their right to self-advocacy: The journey of "Autoekprosopsi". 8.Developing cultural capacity with people who have profound intellectual disabilities. 9.Fighting for the rights of the non-speaking: Typing words to be heard. Part Two - Political, social, and cultural context. 10.Exploring the now and the prospects of the Disability rights movement in Latin America. 11.On the margins while in the midst of conflict – Adults with intellectual disabilities in Northern Ireland and Bosnia Herzegovina. 12.Personal assistance services in Poland during the period of higher education: Paving the way for independent living. 13.Theories of social dominance in group-based hierarchies: Reflections from the United Nations Partnership on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (UNPRPD) project in Uruguay. 14.Intellectual Disability and Sexuality in Ultra-Orthodox Jewish Communities. 15.On the Hierarchy of Human Rights of Persons with Disabilities and Higher Education: Capturing the fulfilment of the right to accessibility in Indonesia. 16.Violence against women and girls with disabilities in residential institutions in Serbia. 17.Disability and Displacement: Disability Hierarchy Among Refugees and Other Displaced People. 18.Hierarchy, education and persons with disabilities in Anglophone Caribbean. Part Three - Which rights on top, whose rights on bottom? 19.Hierarchies of impairment and digital disability rights. 20.Communication rights moderated through hierarchies of disability and childhood. 21.Including the voices of persons with intellectual disabilities in academia: Participatory research, education and development in the academic world. 22.Exploring intersectional and ethical feminist perspectives as a possible framework for understanding violence against women with disabilities in Africa with specific reference to forced sterilisation. 23.Inclusive Education through a Neoliberal lens: The hierarchal differences between rural and urban China. Part Four - Pushed to the periphery in the disability rights movement. 24.Excluded from disability rights debate: the missed voices of people with speech impairments. 25.Hierarchies of Leadership Within Disability Justice Movements: The Voices of individuals with intellectual disabilities are often left unheard. 26.Zhenshchiny. Invalidnost’. Feminizm/Women. Disability . Feminism: Claiming Ourselves Against Ableism. 27.Two sides of the same coin: Domination of the views of the educated in organisations of the blind in Ghana. 28.Between the Disability Movement and the Feminist Movement - Intersectional Mobilizations of Women with Disabilities in Haiti. Part Five - Representations of Disability. 29.Reflections of Misperceptions. 30.Pirate Island. 31.Disability or Vulnerability: How Courts Distinguish between Physical and Psychosocial Disabilities in an Employment Context. 32.Rooted in Rights – "Women with Disabilities in India and Kenya". 33.Conversation Across Continents on Hierarchies, Human Security and Covid-19. 34.An Invitation to Contemplate: Dialogues about disability hierarchies between South Africa and Scotland. 35.Countering Disability Hierarchy with Cross Disability Solidarity. 36.Intersecting identities.
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Taylor & Francis Law in Australian Society
Book SynopsisWhat is the ârule of law'? How do laws get made? Does our legal and political system achieve justice for all Australians equally? Designed for beginners as well as non-law students, this textbook provides a comprehensive and accessible guide to understanding Australia's system of law and government.Law in Australian Society explains legislation and case law, courts, and the doctrine of precedent. Keiran Hardy examines the roles played by parliaments, politics, and the media. He explains founding principles, including democracy, liberalism, the separation of powers, and federalism. Human rights and justice are highlighted, with an emphasis on First Nations Peoples and the law. The book explains criminal responsibility and the justice system, including police powers and the criminal trial. It concludes with case studies of cybercrime and counterterrorism laws to illustrate law reform in action. This second edition has been fully updated throughout, including recent leg
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Art Aesthetics and International Justice
Book SynopsisThis book demonstrates that art is implicit in the process of administration of international justice. The book will be of interest to academics and researchers working in the areas of Legal Philosophy, International Criminal Justice, International Law and International Relations.
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Taylor & Francis Ltd How Autocrats Seek Power
Book SynopsisChronicling and analyzing resistance to the threat that autocracy poses to American liberal democracy, this book provides the definitive account of the rise of Trump's populist support in 2016, and his failed efforts to nullify the result of the 2020 election.This book is about the threat of autocracy, which antedated Donald Trump and will persist after he leaves the stage. Autocracy negates both liberalismwhich includes the protection of fundamental rights, the rule of law, separation of powers, and respect for specialist expertiseand democracywhich requires that the state be responsible to an electorate composed of all eligible votersby concentrating unconstrained power in a single individual. Anticipating defeat in the 2016 election, Trump attacked suggestions that he had sought, or even benefited from, Russian assistance despite the evidence, and he made repeated claims of election fraud. In 2020, fearful that his mishandling of the pandemic had alienated voters, he inten
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Dynamics of Sexual Consent
Book SynopsisHow does sexual consent work? How do we know that another person really wants to have sex with us? Why do people sometimes give in to sex that they are not in the mood for? And how come it is sometimes difficult to draw a sharp line between sex and assault? Dynamics of Sexual Consent addresses these questions based on deeply personal interviews with twenty Swedish women and men of various ages and sexual orientations. In doing so, it contributes to understandings of sexual consent and sexual grey areas through its combination of conceptual rigour, analytical detail and empirical richness.While starting in the legal definition of consent as voluntary participation, the book broadens the discussion to a wider sociological and philosophical sphere where gendered power dynamics and relational dependencies challenge simplistic understandings of voluntariness. Contesting tendencies to see miscommunication as the key problem related to consent, it shows that emotional aspects
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Taylor & Francis Ltd How Autocrats Abuse Power
Book SynopsisChronicling and analyzing resistance to the threat that autocracy poses to American liberal democracy, this book provides the definitive account of both Trump's efforts to erode democracy's essential elements and opposition to those efforts.This book is about the threat of autocracy, which antedated Donald Trump and will persist after he leaves the stage. Autocrats blur or breach the separation of powers, use executive orders to bypass the legislature, pack the courts, replace career prosecutors with political appointees, abuse the pardon power, and claim immunity from the law. They seek to hobble opposition from civil society by curtailing speech and assembly, tolerating and even encouraging vigilante violence, and attacking the media. As this book demonstrates, Trump followed the autocrat's playbook in many ways. He was a huckster of hate, aiming his vitriol at women and racial minorities and making attacks on immigrants the focus of his 2016 campaign, as well as his first Table of ContentsPreface viiAcronyms xDramatis Personae xii1 How Autocrats Use Power 12 The Politics of Resentment 83 Politicizing Criminal Justice 744 The Fate of Law 151References 174Index 181
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Taylor & Francis Trafficking and the Conscience of Humanity
Book SynopsisHuman trafficking has become the scourge of the 21st century, with child trafficking arguably its worst form. As vulnerable children are lured into prostitution, pornography and other forms of exploitation, there is only a patchwork legal regime trying to deal with child trafficking.This book assesses this legal regime, arguing that a more coordinated and international response is needed. Analyzing the moral and conceptual issues at stake across a wide variety of child trafficking cases â child prostitution, child pornography, forced âœmarriage,â corrupt âœadoptions,â organ âœdonation,â refugee abuse, child soldiers, orphanage abuse, and âœnormalâ parental child abuse â it goes on to argue that the crimes of child trafficking make apparent that there are conceptual, moral, and legal issues concerning child trafficking that differ from other kinds of crime including adult trafficking.Trafficking and the Conscience of Humanity puts forward the case that the crimes of child trafficking could, and should, be prosecuted by an international court such as the International Criminal Court.
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Taylor & Francis Online Sexual Crimes Offenders and Victims
Book SynopsisAdopting a multidisciplinary perspective, this volume explores contemporary knowledge regarding the online sexual exploitation of children and adolescents, and challenges prevailing myths perpetuated by society and the media concerning this form of violence, the offenders, and their victims.Drawing on a wealth of data collected from real cases in Quebec, the book introduces readers to explanatory models of online offending and victimization, the criminal trajectories and characteristics of online offenses, the individual attributes of offenders and victims, issues pertaining to virtual identities and anonymity preservation techniques, and considerations for prevention and intervention practices.Online Sexual Crimes, Offenders, and Victims will be of interest to students, researchers and professionals in the fields of criminal justice and public health, including criminologists, psychologists, psychiatrists, psychotherapists, social workers, police investigators,
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Taylor & Francis Criminal Justice Policy and Planning
Book SynopsisUnlike other textbooks on the subject, this book presents a comprehensive and structured account of the process of administering planned change in the criminal justice system. The authors detail a simple yet sophisticated seven-stage model, which offers students and practitioners a full account of program and policy development from beginning to end. Within these stages, students focus on performing essential procedures, such as conducting a systems analysis, specifying an impact model, identifying target populations, making cost projections, collecting monitoring data, and performing evaluations. In reviewing these steps and procedures, students can develop a full appreciation for the challenges inherent in the process and understand the tools they require to meet those challenges. To provide for a greater understanding of the material, the text uses a wide array of real-life case studies and examples of programs and policies. By examining the successes and failures of various innovations, the authors demonstrate both the ability of rational planning to make successful improvements and the tendency of unplanned change to result in undesirable outcomes. The result is a powerful argument for the use of logic, deliberation, and collaboration in criminal justice innovations.This readable volume is ideal as a primary or supplemental text in criminal justice policy-related courses, and also serves as a useful reference for practitioners in the field tasked with strategic planning for policy change.
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Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd Governance and Regulation of Charities
Book SynopsisTrade Review‘Governance and regulation of charities is a dynamic field that is rapidly changing on the ground and in scholarship. This work critically appraises the shifting ground of charity reforms in multiple jurisdictions and points to plausible understandings of these developments and where they are destined to lead us.’ -- Myles Mcgregor-Lowndes, Queensland University of Technology, Australia‘This important volume provides new and provocative perspectives on the governance and regulation of charities in comparative perspective. Lawyers, consultants, academics, students and others will find this an invaluable resource for understanding the complex world of charities and civil society within countries and across borders.’ -- Mark Sidel, University of Wisconsin-Madison, US‘This volume provides a rich seedbed of ideas and analysis on the governance and regulation of charities.’ -- Oonagh B Breen, University College Dublin, IrelandTable of ContentsContents: Foreword viii Introduction to Governance and Regulation of Charities: International and Comparative Perspectives 1 Rosemary Teele Langford 1 An Examination of Charity Accountability: To Whom, and How Can We Make It Better? 17 Debra Morris 2 Charity Regulation in an International Context 42 Matthew Turnour 3 The Conditions for Purpose-Based Governance 66 Matthew Harding 4 Designing an Optimal Charities Framework 83 Sue Barker 5 A Tale of Two Jurisdictions: Critical Reflections on Charity Law and Regulation in Australia and England & Wales 108 Danielle Mawer 6 Rethinking the State Regulation of Charities: A Hong Kong Perspective 133 Rebecca Lee 7 Governance and Regulation of Nonprofit Organisations in Germany: Insights and Suggested Reforms 157 Birgit Weitemeyer 8 Charity Governance in Japan: Past Reforms and Current Debates 184 Masayuki Tamaruya 9 Governance and Regulation of Charitable Trusts in Korea: Insights and Implications 208 Kye Joung Lee 10 Regulating the Investment Activities of Australian Charities 228 M Scott Donald and Ashton Cook 11 ‘All for One, One for All, Until…’: Tensions in Individual Accountability and Board Responsibility 252 Jackie Bettington
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SAGE Publications Inc Principal Leadership for Racial Equity
Book SynopsisEnhance your capacity for antiracist leadership! The COVID 19 pandemic has illuminated deep-seated structural inequities in our schools and across society. More than ever, education leaders are being challenged to take action to disrupt the institutional racism that undergirds many of our longstanding policies and practices. Our students are challenging us to step up and be antiracists who commit to the uncompromising belief all children can learn and deserve an exceptional education. Based on 10 years of work leading the Institute for Courageous Principal Leadership, this book guides leaders to expanding their racial consciousness through self-reflection and provides the tools they need to counter implicit bias and respond to resistance. Grounded in research, but written in practitioner-friendly language, this book: Focuses on systemic leadership and institutional failures as the source of predictable student outcomes Leverages research and theory to create a process for principals to build racially equitable practices Navigates the politics of leadership without compromising student achievement The practical lessons and strategies in this book will equip you with the skills to implement the leadership and actions that must be taken to confront the reality of systemic racism in education and transform schools into learning environments with a student-centered commitment to high achievement for every learner. Trade Review"Principal Leadership for Racial Equity offers readers a theory of action surrounding the role we must take in our schools and districts to support our next generation learners. Implicit biases must be eradicated in order for each student to reach their own limitless potential. The authors provide clear examples, anecdotes, insights, and research to support a paradigm shift that will support learners and their overall achievement. Now is the time, the space, and the place to ensure that our youth thrive." -- Dr. Jill Gildea"Principal Leadership for Racial Equity: A Field Guide for Developing Racial Consciousness in School Principals provides tools and reflection for all leaders in education to begin to become true agents of change in our schools and more importantly come to grips with their own biases so that we see more commonalities. This book will allow us to lean into discomfort and become more human." -- Elizabeth Alvarez"Principal Leadership for Racial Equity: A Field Guide for Developing Racial Consciousness in School Principals is a thoughtful, well written book that is current, relevant, and needed for now and the future. I strongly recommend this book for current and aspiring administrators. The book would be an excellent resource for a book study or a graduate course. I am eager to share this book with my colleagues and administrators I mentor. This book will be a valuable addition to my professional library." -- Shelley Joan Weiss"At this critical juncture in which the deleterious impact of race is so profoundly apparent in our schools, Krull, Raskin and Felix have provided us with an epistemological tour de force . Research, evidence, strategies and practices have been blended into a vital metanarrative from which leaders can mindfully inspire and instill in staff the racial consciousness needed to confidently enable students of color to demonstrate their innate propensity for high intellectual performances, self-determination and personal agency." -- Yvette Jackson"The authors of Principal Leadership for Racial Equity mince no words and address head on the brass tacks issues that need to be confronted if American education is going to make any headway related to respecting and valuing every human being as a human being regardless of race, ethnicity, background, or any other factor. In the current political and social environment, this issue is more important than ever. This book expands on, differentiates itself from and is more direct than any other publications out right now on how to go about leadership equity work." -- Karen L. Tichy, Ed.D"I only wish that this book had been available during my service in public schools – as a principal, Assistant Superintendent and Superintendent. I would recommend that all leaders and educators who are interested in creating an environment of true understanding and equity utilize this text as the foundation for intentional professional learning, reflection and committed action. As a leadership coach, this book will be an invaluable resource. Principal Leadership for Racial Equity is a gift- to both adults and more importantly students!" -- Lynn Macan"Lights! Camera! Action! Inequities in education for students of color are now in focus and Principal Leadership for Racial Equity addresses the actions to be taken to make sure all students are successful." -- Laura Schaffer Metcalfe, Ed.D."The timing for Principal Leadership for Racial Equity is perfect and the structure of this book will best support leaders address issues we all face in the field." -- Cathy Sosnowski"Leading for equity requires deep personal reflection, courage, and skill. This book provides tools and resources to tap into all three. Reading and completing the exercises within this book provide a platform for knowing yourself and developing that knowledge into a set of behaviors and actions that create equitable conditions within your school or organization. Leaders who are continually growing in their confidence to do what is just and their ability to guide whole communities of practice in this work will want to learn from the experience and expertise of these authors. It will make a positive difference in the lives of the students and families in their schools." -- Shannon Hobbs-Beckley"Principal Leadership for Racial Equity prompts deep personal reflection and goes beyond the ‘surface’ level work to get to the focus of this work. This topic can be a ‘courageous’ undertaking and this book provides the tools and personal reflection needed to truly engage in order to interrupt the cycle of practices that do not work for all students. It is not good enough to focus on success for most students – we need to focus on equity for all students!" -- Lena Marie Rockwood, Ed. D."Understanding and developing racial consciousness with principals is critical and a focus of many Boards today. Principal Leadership for Racial Equity provides practical, realistic, and useful guidance by working readers through a series of chapters intended to develop racial consciousness and provide administrators with the tools to start work in schools. The activities engage the reader in each chapter to uncover bias and develop an understanding with the matter. The reflection questions in the chapter also provide additional learning, and are especially useful when engaged in learning with a group." -- Maryam Hasan"This book offers a compelling message of hope and steps towards inclusion for school administrators and district leaders in addressing racial equality. This book engages in discussion and actions that move from an idea to implementation. It is a practical guide to implement a system in a manner that is conducive to enhancing the culture and performance of the organization." -- Debra ParadowskiTable of ContentsList of Figures Foreword Acknowledgments About the Authors Introduction Part I. Developing Racial Consciousness Chapter 1. Developing Myself as a Racially Conscious Leader Chapter 2. Discovering My “Why” Chapter 3. Research Reality Check Chapter 4. Racism at Work Chapter 5. Understanding My School/District Part II. Integrating Knowledge Into Practice Chapter 6. A Principal’s Critical Duty Chapter 7. Ensuring Racially Conscious Pedagogy Chapter 8. The State of Things Chapter 9. Good Trouble Index Learning from Mentors: Living the Theory of Action by Josh Fraser Learning from Mentors: Living the Theory of Action by Kirk Morris Learning from Mentors: Responding to Disaster by Isabel Rodriguez Learning from Mentors: The Value of Racial Affinity Groups by Nan Yurecko Learning from Mentors: Instruction that Supports Student Pride, Place, and Potential by Nasreen Fynewever Learning from Mentors: Looking in the Mirror: Michael Walker’s Advice to Principals by Michael Walker Learning from Mentors: Transforming Instruction by Silvy Un Lafayette and Jessica Busse
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SAGE Publications Inc Beyond Crises
Book SynopsisWhat are some lessons learned from the pandemic?We learned that, in times of crises, the humanitarian needs of students, families, and ourselves must be a top priority.We learned that forming effective partnerships with families and communities is essential to the health and well-being of our children.We were offered a blunt reminder that a system designed to serve the interests of a privileged few was destined to fail our historically underserved students, especially our millions of multilingual learners.Above all, we learned that the normal many of us have yearned for wasnevergood enoughthat we must envision a better world, where we build on our multilingual students' unique assets and cultivate their inner brilliance. Only then will we deliver on their promise.It's this better world, a world in which communities, schools, and classrooms work together as a whole-child ecosystem,Beyond Crises:Overcoming Linguistic and Cultural Inequities in Communities, Schools, and Classroomssets out to create. Taking a look from the outside in, Debbie Zacarian, Margarita Calderón, and Margo Gottlieb address three critical arenas:1.Imagining Communitiesdescribes how to design and enact strengths-based family and community partnerships, including the critical importance of identifying, valuing, and acknowledging each member's assets and competencies, and the ways recent crises have amplified their struggles.2.Imagining Schoolstakes an up-close look at policies, structures, and now irrelevant ways of schooling that call for change and how we might reconfigure professional development to ensure every teacher and administrator is dedicated to the well-being and success of our multilingual learners.3.Imagining Classroomsdemonstrates how to optimize learning opportunitiesboth virtual and face-to-faceso our diverse students grow cognitively, linguistically, and social-emotionally, and accentuate their talents in knowing and using multiple languages in linguistically and culturally sustainable environments.Student and family, classroom, school, and local community are not silos unto themselves, Debbie, Margarita, and Margo insist. They are part of a larger whole that is interrelated and interconnected and, even, interdependent on each other. By forming stronger alliances, we can realize the power of truly working, socializing, and flourishing together.Beyond Crisesis the first critical step forward.Trade Review"This timely and unique volume from Zacarian, Calderón, and Gottlieb, three of the most renowned masters in the field of teaching culturally and linguistically diverse students, spotlights the critical need for collaborative relationships between communities, schools, and classrooms to engage in advocacy for equitable educational opportunities for all learners. It guides the reader through a journey of reflection by making connections to one’s own experiences with relationship building as well as identifying action steps to strengthen partnerships. It also invites the reader to imagine ways to be open to change and make things happen! This book is a must read for anyone who works with this special student population." -- Maria Dove"Through witnessing the pandemic’s detrimental effects on English learners, I’m left grasping for a silver lining. I need to know how to make sense of what has happened, to learn from the challenges and heartbreak, and to thoughtfully move forward. Beyond Crises comes at just the right time. Through compelling student stories, anecdotes from fierce advocates, and spot-on reflection questions and tools, the authors guide us to reimagine education for ELs." -- Diane Fenner"Beyond Crises: Overcoming Linguistic and Cultural Inequities in Communities, Schools, and Classrooms is just the resource administrators, instructional leaders, and educators in all walks of life need! This timely book by the powerful trio--Debbie Zacarian, Margarita Calderón, and Margo Gottlieb--is destined to pave the way for imagining and re-imagining our communities, schools, and classrooms in a post-crisis world. Their unapologetic call-for-action is to overturn racial, cultural and linguistic inequities—this book will show you how!" -- Andrea Honigsfeld"What a superb and relevant discussion of how we as educators and servants can take our colleagues, our students and their families to the next level. Debbie, Margarita, and Margo have done a great job combining practical, critical practices, and partnerships with perfect examples of why we as educators do what we do. You’ll want to buy two, one for yourself and one to share." -- Shawn Slakk"By using voices from communities, schools, and classrooms, Beyond Crisis re-envisions how systems can move away from deficit-based paradigms. The practical and new ways of re-imagining presented in this book highlight and inspire a call to action that encourages strengths-based partnerships to acknowledge assets and competencies within systems. Beyond Crisis is a relevant and responsive book that motivates hope and empathy to address polarizing and chaotic times in our nation." -- Ivannia Soto"Beyond Crisis is the humanizing, empowering book we need right now! Read it for a compelling vision and action steps to move beyond crisis and create the interconnected schools and communities our multilingual learners deserve." -- Tonya Ward SingerTable of ContentsDedication Author′s Acknowledgements Foreword by Dan Alpert Introduction Part I: Imagining Communities Chapter 1: Designing and Enacting Strengths-Based Communities Chapter 2: Sustaining a Whole Child ′Ecosystem′ Chapter 3: Striving for Interdependent, Interconnected Communities Part II: Imagining Schools Chapter 4: Imagining Schools Beyond the Crises Chapter 5: Sustaining Growth and Momentum Chapter 6: Striving for Interdependence and Interconnections Part III: Imagining Classrooms Chapter 7: Designing and Enacting Classroom Change Chapter 8: Sustaining Momentum and Growth in Classrooms Chapter 9: Striving for Interconnections References Index
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SAGE Publications Inc The Complexities of Equity
Book SynopsisNavigate equity with confidence and clarity.Amid a challenging political climate increasingly seeking to curtail DEI efforts, Latish C. Reed introduces the innovative Equity Empowerment Continuum (EEC), an introspective and systematic approach to understanding and addressing the complexities of equity in any organization. Dr. Reed offers personal insights and practical tools, demonstrating how reflection and careful analysis can lead to action and sustainable equity in schools and other organizations. This essential resource merges theory and practice with a candid perspective on the challenges of dismantling systemic injustice.Each chapter features real-world examples and vignettes that bring theoretical concepts to life, offering relatable scenarios and detailed analyses to propel readers toward equity-focused solutions. Additional features include Reflection Prompts and Worksheets:Access online resources to brainstorm and strategize using the EEC model. Historical and Contemporary Identifiers:Understand equity phases through real-life examples from education and beyond. End-of-Chapter Questions:Facilitate individual or team discussions to reinforce learning and application. The Complexities of Equityis an indispensable guide empowering readers to evaluate personal biases and influence organizational change. This resource supports those committed to fostering equity across every sphere of influence.
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Cambridge University Press Day Fines in Europe
Book SynopsisDay fines, as a pecuniary sanction, have a great potential to reduce inequality in the criminal sentencing system, as they impose the same relative punishment on all offenders irrespective of their income. Furthermore, with correct implementation, they can constitute an alternative sanction to the more repressive and not always efficient short-term prison sentences. Finally, by independently expressing in the sentence the severity and the income of the offender, day fines can increase uniformity and transparency of sentencing. Having this in mind, almost half of the European Union countries have adopted day fines in their criminal justice system. For the first time, this book makes their findings accessible to a wider international audience. Aimed at scholars, policy makers and criminal law practitioners, it provides an opportunity to learn about the theoretical advantages, the practical challenges, the successes and failures, and ways to improve.Table of Contents1. Introduction Elena Kantorowicz-Reznichenko and Michael Faure; 2. Theoretical Perspectives on Day Fines Elena Kantorowicz-Reznichenko; 3. Day Fines in Finland Raimo Lahti; 4. Day Fines in Sweden Jacob Öberg; 5. Day Fines in Denmark Thomas Elholm; 6. Day Fines in Germany Hans-Joerg Albrecht; 7. Day Fines in Austria Christopher Kahl and Verena Weinberger; 8. Day Fines in Hungary Csaba Győry; 9. Day Fines in France Bruno Deffains and Jean-Baptiste Thierry; 10. Day Fines in Portugal Maria Fernanda Palma and Helena Morão; 11. Day (Unit) Fines in England and Wales Valsamis Mitsilegas and Foivi Sofia Mouzakiti; 12. Day Fines in Slovenia Mitja Kovac; 13. Day Fines in Spain Jesús Barquín Sanz; 14. Day fines in Poland Dawid M. Marko and Sławomir Steinborn; 15. Day Fines in Croatia Maja Munivrana Vajda; 16. Day Fines in Switzerland Martin Killias and Lorenz Biberstein; 17. Day Fines in Czech Republic Jiří Kindl and Jan Kupčík; 18. Day Fines in Romania Mihail Udroiu; 19. Comparative Law and Economics Perspective on Day Fines Elena Kantorowicz-Reznichenko and Michael Faure.
£107.10
Cambridge University Press Day Fines in Europe
Book SynopsisDay fines, as a pecuniary sanction, have a great potential to reduce inequality in the criminal sentencing system, as they impose the same relative punishment on all offenders irrespective of their income. Furthermore, with correct implementation, they can constitute an alternative sanction to the more repressive and not always efficient short-term prison sentences. Finally, by independently expressing in the sentence the severity and the income of the offender, day fines can increase uniformity and transparency of sentencing. Having this in mind, almost half of the European Union countries have adopted day fines in their criminal justice system. For the first time, this book makes their findings accessible to a wider international audience. Aimed at scholars, policy makers and criminal law practitioners, it provides an opportunity to learn about the theoretical advantages, the practical challenges, the successes and failures, and ways to improve.Table of Contents1. Introduction Elena Kantorowicz-Reznichenko and Michael Faure; 2. Theoretical Perspectives on Day Fines Elena Kantorowicz-Reznichenko; 3. Day Fines in Finland Raimo Lahti; 4. Day Fines in Sweden Jacob Öberg; 5. Day Fines in Denmark Thomas Elholm; 6. Day Fines in Germany Hans-Joerg Albrecht; 7. Day Fines in Austria Christopher Kahl and Verena Weinberger; 8. Day Fines in Hungary Csaba Győry; 9. Day Fines in France Bruno Deffains and Jean-Baptiste Thierry; 10. Day Fines in Portugal Maria Fernanda Palma and Helena Morão; 11. Day (Unit) Fines in England and Wales Valsamis Mitsilegas and Foivi Sofia Mouzakiti; 12. Day Fines in Slovenia Mitja Kovac; 13. Day Fines in Spain Jesús Barquín Sanz; 14. Day fines in Poland Dawid M. Marko and Sławomir Steinborn; 15. Day Fines in Croatia Maja Munivrana Vajda; 16. Day Fines in Switzerland Martin Killias and Lorenz Biberstein; 17. Day Fines in Czech Republic Jiří Kindl and Jan Kupčík; 18. Day Fines in Romania Mihail Udroiu; 19. Comparative Law and Economics Perspective on Day Fines Elena Kantorowicz-Reznichenko and Michael Faure.
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CRC Press The Fast and The Furious Drivers Speed Cameras
Book SynopsisThe Fast and The Furious: Drivers, Speed Cameras and Control in a Risk Society presents a sociological and criminological perspective critical to understanding the driver's role at the centre of road safety interventions. Such an approach is, it is argued, as crucial to an understanding of attempts to reduce road crashes, deaths and injuries as approaching such questions from an engineering or educational perspective. The book offers an explanation for the continued debate about one road safety intervention - the speed camera - by situating that debate within contemporary literature about the 'risk society' (Beck, 1992) and more broadly understood experiences of risk faced on a daily basis by drivers. Rather than a focus on risk as something that can be objectively assessed, measured and managed separately from the social context in which it is encountered, it suggests that 'risk' is something that permeates this particular debate from every angle. The book achieves its aims by utilising sociological and criminological perspectives to investigate issues such as: - the social context in which it is possible for drivers to reject official scientific expertise about crash causation and camera effectiveness - the self-defined 'respectability' of the population being problematised and its juxtaposition with a 'proper' police focus on 'real criminals' - the reconceptualisation of law-breaking as risk-taking rather than inherently 'wrong' behaviour and its consequences for the enforcement of laws based on risk assessment - the experience of being controlled by technology and of receiving what is essentially 'automated justice'. These and other issues are explored and suggested as illuminating of both the real concerns underpinning this debate and potentially instructive for future attempts to control risky behaviour both within and beyond a road safety context.Trade ReviewShortlisted for the British Society of Criminology Book Prize, 2013. 'Helen Wells sets out on an important and timely quest to place roads policing through speed cameras in the context of a "risk society". Rightly, she avoids a debate about their effectiveness. Rather, she looks at changes in policing through greater use of technology and at the roles played by researchers, pressure groups and experts. As an expert cited, I found this a fascinating survey of a controversial topic.' Robert Gifford, Executive Director, Parliamentary Advisory Council for Transport Safety, UK 'We've waited a long time for this fresh perspective on a topic that touches us all in risk society. Using a multi-method, multi-site empirical study as her basis, Wells unpicks the many and contradictory strands of the speed camera debate, deliberately retaining a neutral stance and positioning the whole enterprise within a risk narrative. As such it delivers a powerful analysis of what was seen to "go wrong" through giving "voice" to drivers, and serves up timely insights for the enforcing authorities. A real tour de force!' Claire Corbett, Brunel Law School, UK 'A real thought provoker for anyone who has ever had an opinion about speed cameras! Through the voices of drivers, enforcers, persuaders, and decision-makers, this is an insightful look at the debate on arguably the most contentious of 'techno-fixes'. In explaining how, in many people's eyes, "safety cameras" became "speed traps", Wells reminds us that opinions cannot be changed by scientific evidence alone and that public acceptance is a prerequisite for any intervention.' Lindsey Simkins, Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents, UKTable of ContentsContents: Introduction; A brief history of speed limit enforcement; Contradictory expert claims about speed cameras; The expert marketplace; Respectability, responsibility and resistance; Experiencing automated enforcement; Developments - past, present and future; Conclusion; Glossary; Bibliography; Index.
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Taylor & Francis Ltd The Enforcement of Offender Supervision in Europe
Book SynopsisThis book provides a comparative analysis of the process of breach across ten different European jurisdictions by identifying and elaborating a number of key analytical themes through which the different systems can be compared and evaluated. It is informed by and hopes to advance the research activities of the COST Action IS1106 on Offender Supervision in Europe, particularly the Action's work on developing new comparative methodologies to examine the process of decision-making involved in the breaching of offenders for non-compliance. This volume consists of country chapters and thematic chapters. Analyses are based on exhaustive reviews of the literature available in each jurisdiction as well as the results of an empirical pilot study to provide a unique and valuable insight into current practice as well as enhancing our understanding of the contingencies and vagaries of the processes of breach as they exist in both civil and common law European jurisdictions. The keyTrade Review"This remarkable volume provides the first sustained attempt to explore decision-making about compliance and enforcement in comparative context. Given the crucial role that these issues play in driving – or restraining – the expansion of penal control, the work could hardly be more timely or more important. By helping us explore how these issues are differently constructed, understood and addressed in a wide range of different jurisdictions, this book provides a valuable resource for scholars and reformers alike."- Fergus McNeill, Professor of Criminology and Social Work, University of Glasgow, UK"The process of breach in community supervision is by far the most important criminological issue that you never read about. Done correctly, the breach process can imbue supervision with legitimacy, done incorrectly it can become a backdoor into mass incarceration. Boone and Maguire’s unique and invaluable collection of studies demonstrates the vast variety in between with a one-of-a-kind survey across Europe. An essential contribution to knowledge in criminology."- Shadd Maruna, Professor of Criminology, University of Manchester, UK, and author of Making Good: How Ex-Convicts Reform and Rebuild Their Lives"Breach proceedings are part of the hidden ‘backdoor’ side of sentencing, too long ignored by academics. This book adds considerably to the literature by acknowledging the difficulties of analysis, the theoretical complexity and the terminological challenges of European comparisons. Qualitative, thematic and collaborative, this book provides an invaluable guide to those who seek to make sense of enforcement decisions, but also to those who come later - future researchers will find this an exciting and reliable foundation on which to build future work."- Professor Nicola Padfield, University of Cambridge, UK"While researchers world-wide have rightly focused attention on the more visible legal and cultural practices driving imprisonment, the increasingly significant role of the enforcement of offender supervision has gone almost unnoticed. In fact, as this volume demonstrates, the study of ‘breach processes’ unearths urgent normative and empirical questions, which will occupy researchers for generations to come. With contributions from some of Europe’s leading scholars, this volume is set to become landmark in the normative and empirical study of practices which have, perhaps for too long, operated under the radar." - Professor Cyrus Tata, FRSA, Strathclyde University, UKTable of ContentsPART A. 1. Introduction: Comparing breach processes: Aims, concepts, methodology and figures, Miranda M. Boone and Niamh Maguire, 2. Fairness issues in the breach process: European perspectives, Christine Morgenstern, Consuelo Murillos and Luisa Ravagnani, 3. Parties, roles and responsibilities, Ester Blay, Miranda M. Boone and Ineke Pruin, 4. Discretion and professionalism in a breach context, Kristel Beyens and Anders Persson, 5. Legitimacy, fairness and justice in breach processes: Comparative perspectives, Anthea Hucklesby, Niamh Maguire, Maria Anagnostaki and Jose Cid, 6. Conclusion: Understanding breach processes: Major themes, insights and questions for the future, Niamh Maguire and Miranda M. Boone, PART B. 7. Breach of work penalties and conditional release in Belgium, Kristel Beyens and Veerle Scheirs, 8. Non-compliance and the breach process in England and Wales, Anthea Hucklesby, 9. Revocation and recall in Germany: Legal structures and first insights into decision-making processes, Ineke Pruin, 10. Breach processes and community punishment in Greece, Maria Anagnostaki, 11. Non-compliance and breach processes in the context of community service orders and early release: The Republic of Ireland, Niamh Maguire, 12. Breach Process in the Context of Alternative Measures in Italy, Luisa Ravagnani, Alessandra Zaniboni, Nicoletta Policek, 13. Breach of community punishment in Lithuania, Alfredas Laurinavičius and Laura Ustinavičiūtė, 14. Revocation and recall in the Netherlands, Miranda M. Boone and Maaike M. Beckmann, 15. Breach procedure, revocation and recall in Spain, Ester Blay, Jose Cid and Consuelo Murillo, 16. Breach Processes in Sweden, Anders Persson
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Comparative Criminal Justice and Globalization
Book SynopsisIn this exciting and topical collection, leading scholars discuss the implications of globalisation for the fields of comparative criminology and criminal justice. How far does it still make sense to distinguish nation states, for example in comparing prison rates? Is globalisation best treated as an inevitable trend or as an interactive process? How can globalisation''s effects on space and borders be conceptualised? How does it help to create norms and exceptions? The editor, David Nelken, is a Distinguished Scholar of the American Sociological Association, a recipient of the Sellin-Glueck award of the American Society of Criminology, and an Academician of the Academy of Social Sciences, UK. He teaches a course on Comparative Criminal Justice as Visiting Professor in Criminology at Oxford University''s Centre of Criminology.Trade Review'Comparative Criminal Justice and Globalization imaginatively juxtaposes work by leading contemporary scholars of two usually separate subjects. Editor David Nelken's incisive, nuanced opening and closing essays provide analytical and conceptual frameworks that will shape understanding, and future research and writing, for years to come.' Michael Tonry, University of Minnesota, USA 'Globalization represents the next horizon for comparative studies of crime and justice, posing new theoretical and practical challenges but also opening up exciting opportunities for methodological innovation, policy interventions and disciplinary renewal. The contributors to this volume, all household names in the field, explore the implications of globalization for criminality, policing, criminal process and penality, and in so doing help us to understand contemporary social realities and glimpse criminology’s possible futures.' Paul Roberts, University of Nottingham, UK and University of New South Wales, Australia 'This book [...] demonstrates that comparative and global criminology can not only add cohesion and urgency to criminology as a whole, but it can also serve as a bridge to other related disciplines.' British Journal of Criminology
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Taylor & Francis Ltd The Judiciary Discrimination Law and Statutory
Book SynopsisIn 1856, the US Supreme Court denied Dred Scott, now free of slavery, his Constitutional rights, solely because he was black. According to the Court, when the Constitution was drafted, some 60 years earlier, its authors would not have intended that a subordinate and inferior class of beings' qualified as citizens of the United States. Thus, the meaning of language drafted over half a century before was frozen in time.This case, perhaps more than any other, demonstrates that the matter of statutory interpretation is critical, technical, and, sometimes, highly emotive. The case is not a mere nugget from history to indulge our disgust with values of another age, and with it a satisfaction of our progress to today's higher moral ground. It is the unfortunate case that the senior courts of England continue to produce highly contentious interpretations of our equality and discrimination laws. This book examines these cases from the perspective of statutory inteTrade Review‘This is beautifully written and develops a thoughtful, innovative and interesting argument on a matter of considerable importance. The method used entails an unusual, multi-layered and deep analysis of well-trodden ground, leading to thought-provoking, well-reasoned conclusions and some pragmatic practical proposals.'Lizzie Barmes, Professor of Labour Law & Co-Director QMUL School of Law Centre for Research on Law, Equality and Diversity, Queen Mary University of LondonTable of ContentsTable of authoritiesPreface1 INTRODUCTION 2 COMMON TOOLS OF STATUTORY INTERPRETATION 3 AN INTRODUCTION TO THEORIES AND AIMS OF DISCRIMINATION LAW4 THE COMMON LAW AND EQUALITY 5 THE BENIGN MOTIVE ‘DEFENCE’ AND DIRECT DISCRIMINATION 6 THE BENIGN MOTIVE ‘DEFENCE’ AND VICTIMISATION7 VICTIMISATION AND CONTEMPT OF COURT8 PROBLEMS WITH INDIRECT DISCRIMINATION9 DISABILITY-RELATED DISCRIMINATION 10 CONCLUSIONBibliographyIndex
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Islamic Feminisms
Book SynopsisThis book explores the contentious topic of women's rights in Muslim-majority countries, with a specific focus on Iran and the Iranian women's movement from 1906 to the present. The work contextualizes the authorial self through the use of personal narrative and interviews. A new critique of Islamic law is produced through an in-depth study of the Iranian Constitution, civil and criminal codes. The work presents a novel reconceptualization of the term Islamic feminism by revisiting the arguments of various scholars and through analysis of interviews with Iranian women's rights activists. It is contended that the feminist movements can play a critical role in Islamic law reform and consequently the eventual implementation of international human rights law in Muslim-majority countries. What emerges from this study is not only a feminist critique of two major regimes of law, but also the identification of possibilities for reform in the future. The study transitions from the Iranian naTrade ReviewThis book is an important contribution to the study of Iranian women’s struggle for legal equality since the early twentieth century. With a fascinating personal account of the aftermath of the 1979 revolution that brought clerics to power, Fazaeli chronicles the coming of age of an indigenous feminism that has challenged the official interpretation of ‘Shari‘a’. Ziba Mir-Hosseini, SOAS University of London A child of revolution and a martyr’s daughter, Fazaeli situates herself in the ongoing resilient political activism of Iranian women in their pursuit of legal and political equality, despite the relentless state obstruction and harassment. She has written a highly engaging, intelligent and readable book. I recommend this book enthusiastically. Shahla Haeri, Associate Professor, Boston University.At a time when the discourse on Islam and women's rights is increasingly characterized by polemics and one-dimensional debates that generate more heat than light, Roja Fazaeli's fascinating study offers a measured, nuanced, and lucid account of the complex interrelationship between the forces that shape the struggle for gender equality in Iran and the wider Islamic world. By focusing on the critical role that feminist movements can play in pushing for domestic legal reforms that will pave the path towards the full realization of human rights, Islamic Feminisms is a much needed reminder that the ultimate agents of change in that struggle are Muslim women themselves.--- Ahmed Shaheed, United Nations Special Rapporteur on human rights in Iran (2011-2016) & on Freedom of Religion or Belief (2016-).This book is an important contribution to the study of Iranian women’s struggle for legal equality since the early twentieth century. With a fascinating personal account of the aftermath of the 1979 revolution that brought clerics to power, Fazaeli chronicles the coming of age of an indigenous feminism that has challenged the official interpretation of ‘Shari‘a’. Ziba Mir-Hosseini, SOAS University of LondonA child of revolution and a martyr’s daughter, Fazaeli situates herself in the ongoing resilient political activism of Iranian women in their pursuit of legal and political equality, despite the relentless state obstruction and harassment. She has written a highly engaging, intelligent and readable book. I recommend this book enthusiastically. Shahla Haeri, Associate Professor, Boston University.At a time when the discourse on Islam and women's rights is increasingly characterized by polemics and one-dimensional debates that generate more heat than light, Roja Fazaeli's fascinating study offers a measured, nuanced, and lucid account of the complex interrelationship between the forces that shape the struggle for gender equality in Iran and the wider Islamic world. By focusing on the critical role that feminist movements can play in pushing for domestic legal reforms that will pave the path towards the full realization of human rights, Islamic Feminisms is a much needed reminder that the ultimate agents of change in that struggle are Muslim women themselves.--- Ahmed Shaheed, United Nations Special Rapporteur on human rights in Iran (2011-2016) & on Freedom of Religion or Belief (2016-).Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction: Situating the Self Memories Chapter 1. Iranian Women’s Movement: Narratives of Dissent Overview The Iranian Women’s Movement: A Brief Historical Account 1872-2012 Iranian Women’s Movement through: Offline and Online Media Pahlavi Period (1925-1979) 1979- 2009: the Rise and the Fall of Women’s Print Media Chapter II. Contemporary Feminism in Iran: Definitions, Narratives and Identity Introduction The Struggle to Define "Islamic Feminism" Chapter III. Women’s Rights in Islam: An Iranian Case StudyIntroduction Divorce Conclusion Chapter IV. Human Rights, Islam and the debate around CEDAW Introduction A Brief Background to CEDAW International Debate: CEDAW and Muslim-majority countries Iranian Debates on CEDAW Conclusion: A Personal Account INDEX
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Taylor & Francis Understanding Residential Child Care Routledge
Book SynopsisFirst published in 1999, the overall aim of the book is to provide a comprehensive critical guide to the theory and practice of residential care. This is achieved by analysing the history and development of residential child care, examining the current legislative framework and analysing research. The volume has been written against the background of a crisis of confidence in residential child care. The system is often seen as facing perpetual problems of abuse, lack of control and crime. This book seeks to both understand and respond to this challenging situation.Understanding Residential Child Care commences by providing historical and theoretical perspectives. Having provided this analysis the authors move on to examine the empowerment of young people, the framework provided by the Children Act, the role of the manager, the importance of supporting and supervising staff, abuse in care and the experience of leaving care.The book concludes with a chapter suggesting a way forward for residential child care. The core concept explored and applied throughout the book is that of empowerment. It is suggested that this concept can act as an organising framework for re-casting residential child care in a positive manner, so that a quality environment can be provided which can effectively protect and promote the best interests of the child.Trade Review’This is an important book which, by locating a political and theoretical perspective alongside practice, fills a gap in the current literature on residential childcare...stimulating and optimistic, resulting in an accessible book which should be essential reading to all those interested in residential childcare.’ British Journal of Social WorkTable of Contents1. A History of Residential Child Care. 2. Theoretical approaches to Residential Child Care. 3. Empowering Children and Young People. 4. The Children Act 1989 and Residential Child Care. 5. The Management Task in Residential Child Care. 6. Supporting and Supervising Staff. 7. The Abuses and Uses of Residential Child Care. 8. Leaving Residential Care. 9. A Future for Residential Child Care?
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Homicide Gender and Responsibility
Book SynopsisThe crime of homicide has long animated academic debate, community concern and political attention. The discussion has often centered on the perceived (in)adequacy of legal responses to homicide, questions of culpability, and divergent representations of victims and offenders. Within this, notions of gender, responsibility and justice are pivotal. This edited collection builds on existing scholarship by examining these concerns not only in the context of the private' world of domestic murder but also in the more public' world of the state, the corporation, war, and genocide. In so doing this book draws from key frameworks of criminological thought, legal analysis and empirical evidence to critically examine the relationship between homicide, gender and responsibility. Bringing together leading international criminology and legal scholars, this collection provides a unique contribution to the academic and policy engagement with what is, more often than not, an ordinary and munTrade ReviewThis collection of illuminating and provocative essays explicitly engages with the ways notions about gender and responsibility are deeply implicated in understandings of myriad forms of lethal violence, from the violence of individual actors to the violence of the state. Implicitly, these analyses also reveal how our understandings of lethal violence shape constructions of gender and criminal responsibility; and they require us to consider the violence of legal interpretation in both its productive and destructive forms. The international and interdisciplinary scope is impressive, informative, and imperative.—Professor Rosemary Gartner, Centre for Criminology and Sociolegal Studies, University of Toronto, CanadaIn conclusion, Homicide, Gender and Responsibility offers an original perspective on various representations of responsibility in legal responses to homicide, though the role of gender is not emphasized in each chapter as much as the title of the collection would suggest. Every chapter uses a different conceptual and methodological approach to examine a different context in which lethal violence occurs, and the book appears as a collection of different papers which can be consulted separately depending on one's need. However, as a collection, this book could constitute a useful source for graduate students, as it provides new insights on the concept of responsibility and the blurred border between murder and manslaughter - as well as for scholars, as it provides stimulating cues for future research in these neglected approaches to lethal violence.— Eleonora Rossi and Marieke Liem, Violence Research Intiative, Leiden University, Criminal Law and Criminal Justice BooksTable of ContentsIntroduction: Homicide, Gender and Responsibility Part I: Making Sense of the Boundaries between Homicide, Gender and Responsibility 1. A Question of Provocation or Responsibility? Revisiting the Case of Ruth Ellis and David Blakely 2. Murder, Manslaughter and Domestic Violence 3. Representing Intimacy, Gender and Homicide: The Validity and Utility of Common Stereotypes in Law 4. Constructions of Masculinity and Responsibility in the Sentencing of Children Who Commit Lethal Violence 5. Murderousness in War: From Mai Lai to Marine A Part II: Blurring the Boundaries between Homicide, Gender and Responsibility 6. "He Seems to Come Out as a Personally Cruel Person": Perpetrator Re-Presentations in Direct Murder Cases at the ICTY 7. Lethal Violence and Legal Ambiguities: Deaths in Custody in Australia’s Offshore Detention Centres 8. Attributing Criminal Responsibility for Workplace Fatalities and Deaths in Custody: Corporate Manslaughter in Britain and Ireland. Conclusion: Concluding Thoughts on Homicide, Gender and Responsibility
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Routledge Handbook of Judicial Behavior
Book SynopsisInterest in social science and empirical analyses of law, courts and specifically the politics of judges has never been higher or more salient. Consequently, there is a strong need for theoretical work on the research that focuses on courts, judges and the judicial process. The Routledge Handbook of Judicial Behavior provides the most up to date examination of scholarship across the entire spectrum of judicial politics and behavior, written by a combination of currently prominent scholars and the emergent next generation of researchers. Unlike almost all other volumes, this Handbook examines judicial behavior from both an American and Comparative perspective. Part 1 provides a broad overview of the dominant Theoretical and Methodological perspectives used to examine and understand judicial behavior, Part 2 offers an in-depth analysis of the various current scholarly areas examining the U.S. Supreme Court, Part 3 moves from the Supreme CTrade Review'In this edited volume, Professors Howard and Randazzo have produced an impressively comprehensive compilation of essays and analyses from many of the most insightful and productive scholars in the field of judicial politics. Among the volume’s major contributions is its section on comparative and international courts, an area of growing importance and impact in the study of law and courts. The editors’ meta-analytic essays bind the chapters together with key observations about current and future research to help students, scholars and citizens understand and evaluate institutional and behavioral dimensions to the rule of law.' - Stefanie A. Lindquist, Foundation Professor of Law and Political Science, Arizona State University 'This volume is a tour de force of the best of judicial politics. Howard and Randazzo compiled essays written by a veritable who’s who of judicial politics. The breadth of topics reflects the range of subjects examined by judicial scholars from the Supreme Court and other American courts to comparative and transnational courts. This book promises to become one of the standard reviews of judicial behavior, offering a master class on the competing theoretical accounts, methodological issues, and classic empirical puzzles.' - Paul Wahlbeck, Professor of Political Science, George Washington University 'Bob Howard and Kirk Randazzo have put together a comprehensive collection review essays in nearly every significant topic related to judicial decision-making, written by the most accomplished experts in the field. This volume is well-suited for a graduate course in judicial politics, because each chapter provides a sophisticated entrée into a particular subject, but could also be appropriate for advanced undergraduates.' - Joseph L. Smith, Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of Political Science, The University of Alabama 'This volume is a tour de force of the best of judicial politics. Howard and Randazzo compiled essays written by a veritable who’s who of judicial politics. The breadth of topics reflects the range of subjects examined by judicial scholars from the Supreme Court and other American courts to comparative and transnational courts. This book promises to become one of the standard reviews of judicial behavior, offering a master class on the competing theoretical accounts, methodological issues, and classic empirical puzzles.' - Paul Wahlbeck, Professor of Political Science, George Washington University 'Bob Howard and Kirk Randazzo have put together a comprehensive collection review essays in nearly every significant topic related to judicial decision-making, written by the most accomplished experts in the field. This volume is well-suited for a graduate course in judicial politics, because each chapter provides a sophisticated entrée into a particular subject, but could also be appropriate for advanced undergraduates.' - Joseph L. Smith, Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of Political Science, The University of Alabama Table of ContentsIntroduction: Understanding Judicial Behavior—A Work in Progress Robert M. Howard and Kirk A. Randazzo. Part 1: Theoretical and Methodological Perspectives 1. The Attitudinal Model Jeffrey A. Segal and Alan J. Champlin 2. Law and Politics in Judicial and Supreme Court Decision-Making J. Mitchell Pickerill and Christopher Brough 3. Strategic Accounts of Judging Lee Epstein and Jack Knight 4. Measuring Ideology on the Courts Michael A. Bailey 5. Measuring Law Tom S. Clark Part 2: The U.S. Supreme Court 6. Historical Development of Supreme Court Research Christopher N. Krewson and Ryan J. Owens 7. Law and Policy in Decision Making Lawrence Baum 8. U.S. Supreme Court Legitimacy: Unanswered Questions and an Agenda for Future Research Michael J. Nelson and James L. Gibson 9. The Selection of U.S. Supreme Court Justices James ben-Aaron, Paul M. Collins, Jr., and Lori A. Ringhand 10. Opinion Writing in the U.S. Supreme Court Pamela C. Corley and Artemus Ward 11. Making Sense of the Supreme Court—Public Opinion Relationship Peter K. Enns and Patrick C. Wohlfarth 12. Of Political Principals and Legal Principles: The Solicitor General of the United States Richard L. Pacelle, Jr. 13. Oral Arguments Timothy R. Johnson and Thomas K. Pryor Part 3: Other U.S. Courts 14. The Court of Appeals Susan Haire, Reginald S. Sheehan, and Ali S. Masood 15. U.S. District Courts Christina L. Boyd and Ethan D. Boldt 16. What Is So Special About Specialized Courts in the United States? Isaac Unah and Ryan Williams 17. Decision Making in State Supreme Courts Melinda Gann Hall 18. Lower Federal Court Confirmations: Motivations and Strategies Amy Steigerwalt and Wendy L. Martinek 19. Judicial Selection in the States: A Look Back, A Look Ahead Christopher W. Bonneau and Heather Marie Rice Part 4: Comparative Judicial Politics and Transnational Courts 20. Judicial Independence Research Beyond the Crossroads Jeffrey Kaplan Staton 21. Strategic Behavior of Comparative Courts Brad Epperly and Monica Lineberger 22. Courts in Developed Countries Michael C. Tolley 23. Courts And Decision Making in Developing Democracies Lee Demetrius Walker 24. Law and Courts in Authoritarian Regimes Tamir Moustafa 25. The International Court of Justice Sara McLaughlin Mitchell and Andrew P. Owsiak 26. The European Court of Justice Jay N. Krehbiel, Matthew J. Gabel, and Clifford J. Carrubba 27. Turning to Regional Courts: The Inter-American Court of Human Rights Rebecca Reid. Conclusion: Where Do We Go From Here? Robert M. Howard and Kirk A. Randazzo
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Medical Humanities and Disability Studies
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewWritten lyrically and with brilliant clarity across multiple genres, this book continually invites new possibilities, “provoking to clarify.” I am aware of no other book that sustains an inquiry into the relationship between medical humanities and disability studies—much less one that uses the conjunctions and disjunctions between them to critique both disciplines. -- Martha Stoddard Holmes, Professor of Literature and Writing Studies, California State University, USASharp and on target, Stuart Murray offers readers a foray into the intersections of the medical humanities and disability studies, their lacunae, and possibilities. Murray draws on memoir and personal experience to demonstrate how an “indisciplined” approach to life writing provokes potentials for change through an appeal to “agility” in our conceptions of ill-health, disability, and disorder and their roles in medicine, care, and social theory. Compelling and compulsive in its argumentation—Medical Humanities and Disability Studies is the kind of book we need more of. We should all be so indisciplined! -- Matthew Wolf-Meyer, author of 'Unraveling: Remaking Personhood in a Neurodiverse Age' and 'The Slumbering Masses: Sleep, Medicine and American Everyday Life'Medical Humanities and Disability Studies argues against insularity and choosing sides in favour of an agile, indisciplined mode of criticism that embraces generative doubt and productive troubling. With a variety of women’s life narratives as its strong foundation, and richly affective personal vignettes as its spine, Stuart Murray’s book is packed with insights and provocations: from the agile chapter titles and paths taken to find the words and form for his work, to the manifold manifestations of difference/same in experiences of health and disability, and the “in/un/ill-disciplined” acts of drawing on the working methods of one discipline to critique the success of the other. In modelling the intellectual and creative agility found within its archive, this book offers a sensitive and compelling exploration of the fusions of life stories and critical frames and of the complex interweavings of medical humanities and disability studies. -- Stella Bolaki, Reader in American Literature and Medical Humanities and Co-Director, Centre for Health and Medical Humanities, University of Kent, UKBy turns forceful and tender, indisciplined and agile, this book embodies what it might mean to think with and between Disability Studies and Medical Humanities. Holding to the conceptual complexity and political force of lived experience, this is a vital, unsettling, beautiful book. -- Laura Salisbury, Professor of Modern Literature and Medical Humanities, University of Exeter, UKTable of Contents1. Undiagnosed 2. Introduction: Missing Words, or Not Otherwise Specified Reflection 1: 342 Green 3. Chapter 1: Medical/Disabled, Different/Same Reflection 2: Sunday in the Park with Lucas 4. Chapter 2: Disability Minds Medicine Health Reflection 3: Straps 5. Chapter 3: Medicine Bodies Health Disability Reflection 4: Outside the Frame 6. Conclusion: Agile Last
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Religion in the Public Space
Book SynopsisReligion in the public sphere is one of the most debated issues in the field of law and religion. This volume brings together articles which address some of the more prominent recent cases relating to religion and education, religion and the workplace, family law and religious symbols. The essays discuss the meaning of secularism today and the difficult issue of religion in the public sphere and reflect a wide variety of viewpoints. This volume maps the key elements of this multi-faceted problem, offers essential material and provides an important starting point for an understanding of the issues in this century old debate.Table of ContentsContents: Introduction, Silvio Ferrari; Part I Secularism, Pluralism and Multiple Modernities: Religion in the public sphere, Jürgen Habermas; The meaning of secularism, Charles Taylor; The transformations of the religious dimension and the crystallization of new civilizational visions and relations, S.N. Eisenstadt; Secular constitutionalism vindicated, Frances Raday; Religious liberty and French secularism, Jacques Robert; The distinctiveness of Indian secularism, Rajeev Bhargava. Part II Law, Religion and Education: Religion and education, Jeroen Temperman; The religious, moral and spiritual dimensions of education: national, regional and international constitutional and legal frameworks, Peter Schreiner; Different models for religion and education in Europe, Jean-Paul Willaime; Religion education and the transformational state in South Africa, David Chidester; Religious education in Israel, Asher Maoz. Part III Law, Religion and the Workplace: Protecting religion at work, Lucy Vickers; Class wars? Religion and (in)equality in the workplace, Aileen McColgan; God at work: religion in the workplace and the limits of pluralism in Canada, Lorne Sossin. Part IV Religion and Family Law: State, law and family, Mary Ann Glendon; The place of religion in family law: a comparative search, Jane Mair; The overlooked costs of religious deference, Robin Fretwell Wilson. Part V Religious Symbols in the Public Space: Ancient and modern boundary crossing between personal laws and civil law in composite India, Werner Menski. Unveiling the limits of tolerance: comparing the treatment of majority and minority religious symbols in the public sphere, Susanna Mancini and Michel Rosenfeld; Crosses and culture: state-sponsored religious displays in the US and Europe, Mark L. Movsesian; Name index.
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Concepts of Law
Book SynopsisDebates surrounding the concept of law are not new. For a wide variety of reasons and in a wide variety of ways, the meaning of ''law'' has long been an important part of Western thought, both within legal scholarship and beyond. The contributors to Concepts of Law are international experts from the fields of comparative law, legal philosophy, and the social sciences. Combining theoretical analyses with case studies, they explore various legal concepts and contexts from diverse national and disciplinary perspectives. Legal and normative pluralism is a theme throughout. Some chapters discuss the development of state law and legal systems. Others wrestle with law's rhetoric and the potential utility of alternative vocabularies, e.g., ''governance'' and 'governmentality'. Others reveal the rich polyjurality of the present, from the local to the global. The result is a rich picture of both present scholarship on laws and norms and the state of contemporary legal complexity, each crossing tTrade Review'This book contains a wonderful collection of essays on the meaning of law in a pluralist society. It is the first volume to bring together stimulating views of celebrated comparatists, legal theorists and social scientists on contemporary legal complexity. Indispensable reading for anyone interested in the state of contemporary law.' Jan Smits, Maastricht University, The Netherlands ’This work displays a remarkably diverse range of opinion in current legal thought and critical scholarship about the nature of law. Although debate on the subject is certainly not new, this book carries it much further into the richly complex world of normative pluralism.’ Tom Bennett, University of Cape Town, South Africa 'This edited collection confronts us with the choice between having to tame a tiger and thinking the tiger to be a cat, just a different one. When writing about "concepts of law", then one apparently must pay tribute and homage, but one must also be daring and fierce. The authors in this book do both, and do it very differently, from one to the other, and thus offer a refreshing look at some of the (really) old problems of law and some of the old, newer and emerging views that exist with regard to the definition, concept and nature of law and to its role and function in a society which itself doesn't stand still. Reading is highly recommended.' Peer Zumbansen, King's College London, UK ’This book is a significant contribution to comparative legal scholarship. It is a collection of sophisticated essays on the nature of law and legal pluralism from philosophical, sociological, historical and comparativist perspectives.’ Vivian Grosswald Curran, University of Pittsburgh, USATable of ContentsChapter 1 Concepts of Law, Seán PatrickDonlan, Lukas HeckendornUrscheler; Chapter 2 Beyond the State In and Of Legal Theory, Maksymilian DelMar; Chapter 3 Do “Legal Systems” Exist? The Concept of Law and Comparative Law, Mark VanHoecke; Chapter 4 The Concept of Law, BaudouinDupret; Chapter 5 The Truth is Out There? Legal Pluralism and the Language-Game, JaakkoHusa; Chapter 6 Remembering and Applying Legal Pluralism, WernerMenski; Chapter 7 A Sense of Law, EmmanuelMelissaris; Chapter 8 Three Perils of Legal Pluralism, CatherineValcke; Chapter 9 Legal Sociology and the Sociology of Norms, DavidNelken; Chapter 10 Is Law a Special Domain? On the Boundary between the Legal and the Social, MarianoCroce; Chapter 11 The Creation and Use of Concepts of Law when Confronting Legal and Normative Plurality, AndrewHalpin; Chapter 12 A Concept of Law for Global Legal Pluralism?, RogerCotterrell; Chapter 13 The Concept of Law in Postnational Perspective, Alessio LoGiudice; Chapter 14 What is the Context in “Law in Context”?, JuliaEckert; Chapter 15 Short Notes on the Legal Pluralism(s) in Somaliland, SalvatoreMancuso;
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