"This book explores the tension between law's need for and dependence on merciful judgments and suspicions that regularly accompany them"--Résumé de l'éditeur. "Merciful Judgments in Contemporary Society: Legal Problems/Legal Possibilities explores the tension between law's nee…
"Since its inception in 2001, the International Criminal Court (ICC) has been met with resistance by various African states and their leaders, who see the court as a new iteration of colonial violence and control. In Affective Justice Kamari Maxine Clarke explores the African Un…
The goal of this book is to minimize the misunderstandings and conflicts between International law and Islamic law. The objective is to bring peace into justice and justice into peace for the prevention of violations of human rights law, humanitarian law, international criminal …
Using the court records of the Niagara District, one of the richest sets of criminal court records surviving from Upper Canada, the author explores how far local characteristics affected the operation of a criminal justice system transplanted from England. His analysis includes:…
This volume examines the constitutionalisation of criminal law. It considers how the criminal law is constituted through the political processes of the state; how the agents of the criminal law can be answerable to it themselves; and finally how the criminal law can be constitut…
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…
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…