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  • - Torture, Terror, and Sovereignty
    af Paul W. Kahn
    1.001,95 kr.

    The terrorist attacks of 9/11, followed by the expose of torture in US detainment camps, dampened hopes for a peaceful world in the 21st century and challenged the belief that humanity was on a course of progress toward rational deliberation, the rule of law, and human rights. This book investigates the reasons for the resort to violence.

  • - Colonialism and the Rule of Law
    af Nasser Hussain
    1.223,95 kr.

    Focuses on British colonialism in India from the late eighteenth to the early twentieth century to demonstrate how questions of law and emergency shaped colonial rule, which in turn affected the place of colonialism in modern law, depicting the colonies not as passive recipients but as agents in the delineation of Western ideas and practices.

  • af Robin West
    1.343,95 kr.

    Challenges the moral basis for the authority of law.

  • - The Essays of Robert Cover
    af Robert Cover
    488,95 kr.

  • - Public Schools in the Making of Black Masculinity
    af Ann Arnett Ferguson
    329,95 kr.

    How do schools identify African American males as "bad boys"?

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    1.057,95 kr.

  • af Keally D. McBride
    269,95 kr.

    What is the role of punishment in a just society? What is the connection between social control and social order? This book offers a study of punishment's place in utopian political thought, mapping out the road that leads from Thomas More's ""Utopia"" to the cell blocks of Abu Ghraib.

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    1.056,95 kr.

  • - Essays on Law, Narrative and the Family
    af Carol Weisbrod
    282,95 kr.

  • - Gay People on Trial
    af Lisa Keen
    341,95 kr.

  • - Fear and Citizenship in American Public Education
    af William Lyons
    321,95 kr.

    Presents an argument that the educational system is the subject of legislative punishment and the instrument of punishment for children. This book analyzes the connections between a culture of economic punishment of schools and the imposition of punitive controls as a vicious cycle that creates fear and develops passive and dependent citizens.

  • - Same-sex Marriage and the Politics of Civil Rights
    af Jonathan Goldberg-Hiller
    299,95 kr.

  • - The HIV/AIDS Ward at Limestone Prison
    af Benjamin Fleury-Steiner
    533,95 kr.

    At Limestone Prison, the Alabama State Department of Corrections reserves Dorm 16 exclusively for inmates infected with HIV. This book takes readers for a visit to the Limestone infirmary where patients lie chained to beds while insects and rodents run freely through filthy, drafty rooms.

  • - Prison and Politics in the Era of the Big House, 1920-1955
    af Charles Bright
    999,95 kr.

  • - Law and Narrative in African American Life
    af Jon-Christian Suggs
    1.111,95 kr.

    Examines the traditions of American law as it appears in African-American literary life. The study reads the canonical works of 19th and 20th century black literature in the context of its responses to and critiques of American legal history.'

  • - Capital Punishment and the Late Liberal State
    af Timothy V. Kaufman-Osborn
    321,95 kr.

    Discusses the dilemmas of the relationship between the liberal state and capital punishment

  • - Politics and Cultures of Legal Identities
    af Gad Barzilai
    354,95 kr.

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