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Series: Routledge Studies in Liberty and Security
This book examines the question of whether justice or security is the primary virtue of 21st-century society. The issue of enhancing security without undermining justice – managing risk without undermining the rule of law – has always been problematic. However, recent developments such as new...
To Be Published July 26th 2013 by Routledge
Series: Transitional Justice
What role do transitional justice processes play in determining the gender outcomes of transitions from conflict and authoritarianism? What is the impact of transitional justice processes on the human rights of women in states emerging from political violence? Gender Politics in Transitional...
To Be Published August 1st 2013 by Routledge
Series: Routledge Studies in Criminal Justice, Borders and Citizenship
This book examines the role of criminal law in the enforcement of immigration controls over the last two decades in Britain. The criminalization of immigration status has historically served functions of exclusion and control against those who defy the state’s powers over its territory and...
To Be Published August 4th 2013 by Routledge
Series: Discourses of Law
The criminal legal system defines and authoritatively enacts the boundaries of permissible and impermissible behaviour, with a focus on that which is prohibited or transgressive. Wickedness and Crime: Laws of Homicide and Malice seeks to expose the ways in which criminal law communicates and...
To Be Published August 12th 2013 by Routledge
Britain’s Hidden Role in the Rwandan Genocide examines the role of the United Kingdom as a global elite bystander to the crime of genocide, and its complicity - in violation of international criminal laws - in the Rwandan genocide of 1994. As prevailing accounts confine themselves to the role and...
To Be Published August 31st 2013 by Routledge
This book employs actor-network theory in order to examine how representations of crime are produced for contemporary prime-time television dramas. As a unique examination of the production of contemporary crime television dramas, particularly their writing process, Making Crime Television:...
To Be Published September 2nd 2013 by Routledge
Series: Transitional Justice
Transitional Justice Theories is the first volume to approach the politically sensitive subject of post-conflict or post-authoritarian justice from a theoretical perspective. It combines contributions from distinguished scholars and practitioners as well as from emerging academics from different...
To Be Published September 16th 2013 by Routledge
In recent years, legal studies have increased the focus on contemporary social issues involved in law and society. This volume discusses the traditional subjects covered in other law and society texts and eliminates the need for a separate reader by also including chapters on controversial legal...
To Be Published November 20th 2013 by CRC Press
Series: Routledge Contemporary Southeast Asia Series
The importance of the police in politics and the political significance of the police function in a democratic society in particular has been acknowledged in recent years. This book explains the changing position of the police in the post-Suharto era in Indonesia. It focuses on two key areas, the...
To Be Published November 30th 2013 by Routledge
This book investigates street art and graffiti as cultural practices at the borders of legality and illegality. Cities are engaged in a continual process of cultural production through which their self-image is developed and refined; a process that is sometimes legal – as with architecture,...
To Be Published December 11th 2013 by Routledge
