Róisín Mulgrew explores and reconceptualises the way in which international punishment is implemented.
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As the United States celebrates the nation's "triumph over race" with the election of Barack Obama, the majority of young black men in major American cities are locked behind bars or have been labeled felons for life. Although Jim Crow laws have been wiped off the books, an asto…
The author considers the growth and development of the ostensibly apolitical Department of Justice in the eleven years after the union of 1867. Drawing on legal records and other archival documents, he details the complex interactions between law and politics, exploring how expe…
This book examines why female offenders experience very different treatment by the UK courts than that afforded men, how the situation is perpetuated, and what the implications are for women. It looks at the wholly inadequate categorizations applied to women who offend and the i…
The opening of archives on legal case records and judicial administration in China has made possible a new examination of past assumptions about the Chinese justice system. Scholars can now ask where actual legal practice deviated from official and popular conceptualizations and…
"This book explores, for the first time in an edited collection, the intersection of three important areas of research - women, madness and the law. It attempts to advance the debates about how law and the 'psy' sciences play a critical role in regulating and controlling the liv…
This book reviews the statutes, achievements and limitations of international criminal courts, starting with the Nuremberg and Tokyo Tribunals, and€followed in the 1990s by temporary international or hybrid national/international courts as well as the creation of the permanent I…
