Introduction : The "Problem" of Migration / Robert Koulish and Maartje van der Woude -- Insecurity Syndrome : The Challenges of Trump's Carceral State / Tony Platt -- Migration, Populism, Racism : Between "Old" Italy and "New" Europe / Dario Melossi -- The Promise of the Border …
"A timely examination of the increasing efforts to criminalize the status of immigrants, exiles, and refugees"--
After the 1994 genocide in Rwanda, victims, perpetrators, and the country as a whole struggled to deal with the legacy of the mass violence. The government responded by creating a new version of a traditional grassroots justice system called gacaca. Bert Ingelaere, based on his …
Although historically ignored, crime victims are now very firmly on the map. For politicians, newspapers, the media and the public at large, criminal injury and loss are a source of constant concern and anxiety. Criminologists and media analysts have studied much of this concern…
This book applies libertarian property rights theory to a vexing controversy, abortion. This book offers a compromise solution that will not fully please either of the two sides of this debate, but, is the only possible reconciliation between the two. Nor are its benefits limite…
This book explores the conundrum that political fortune is dependent both on social order and big, constitutive crime. An act of outrageous harm depends on rules and protocols of crime scene discovery and forensic recovery, but political authorities review events for a social ag…
"Joining theories of states and state formation with theories of illegal practices, this pioneering book traces the unholy alliance of official practices with criminality. Criminal subcultures, mafias and gangs have been the subject of a great deal of attention, as have formal p…
Joining theories of states and state formation with theories of illegal practices, this pioneering book traces the unholy alliance of official practices with criminality.
"The rule of law is a political ideal today endorsed and promoted worldwide. Or is it? In a significant contribution to the field, Nick Cheesman argues that Myanmar is a country in which the rule of law is 'lexically present but semantically absent'. Charting ideas and practices…
"This is a necessary and utterly compelling book which shines a light on disabled people's experiences of 'everyday hate'. Rich in theoretical insight, methodological innovation and candid reflection, it places victims' lived realities front and centre of its analysis. In so doi…
Sex, culpability and the defence of provocation
Sex, culpability, and the defence of provocation
"The partial defence of provocation is one of the most controversial doctrines within the criminal law. It has now been abolished in a number of international jurisdictions. Addressing the trajectory of debates about reform of the provocation defence across different jurisdictio…
Relations between societal values and legal doctrine are inevitably complex given the time lag between law and social reality, and the sociological space between legal communities involved in the development and application of the law and non-legal communities affected by it. It…
