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publisher: Springer
year: 2018
description:This edited volume examines the role of local civil society in shaping understandings and processes of transitional justice in Africa – a nursery of transitional justice ideas for well over two decades. It brings together practitioners and scholars w...

publisher: Springer
year: 2017
description:In the aftermath of recent multiple leaks such as the Panama Papers, the Swiss leaks, the Luxleaks, and the Bahama leaks, this book offers an interesting view on the underlying conflictinginterests that impede the adoption of more effective legislati...

publisher: Springer
year: 2017
description:This edited collection speaks to and expands on existing debates around incarceration. Rather than focusing on the bricks and mortar of institutional spaces, this volume’s inventive engagements in ‘thinking through carcerality’ touch on more elusive ...

publisher: Springer
year: 2017
description:This book deals with child soldiers’ involvement in crimes under international law. Child soldiers are often victims of grave human rights abuses, and yet, in some cases, they also participate actively in inflicting violence upon others. Nonetheless,...

publisher: Springer
year: 2018
description:Globalization has increased the number of individuals in criminal proceedings who are unable to understand the language of the courtroom, and as a result the number of court interpreters has also increased. But unsupervised interpreters can severely ...

publisher: Springer
year: 2017
description:This book offers a comparative exploration of how journalists across different newsrooms around the world access and interpret statistics when producing stories related to crime. Looking at the nature of news sources regularly used by journalists, Lu...

publisher: Springer
year: 2018
description:This book develops a more nuanced, and technically rigorous, account of persons and groups in the context of intentional action and responsibility. Until now criminologists have taken groups as fairly straightforward associations and neglected the te...

publisher: Springer
year: 2017
description:This book is an attempt to approach the issue of defining international terrorism, proposing that the most workable way to do so is to achieve due balance between the two principal driving forces of international law developments: State sovereignty i...

publisher: Springer
year: 2018
description:Hannu Turba untersucht, wie unterschiedliche Logiken in hybriden Berufswelten deutend und handelnd verarbeitet werden – und mit welchem Ergebnis. Am Beispiel spezialisierter Polizeibeamter im Handlungsfeld Kinderschutz wird gezeigt, dass im Rahmen vo...

publisher: Springer
year: 2018
description:This book uses an Australian case study to shine a much-needed spotlight on discretionary police powers to punish, and their implications for justice and human rights. It offers a revealing analysis of the problematic rationales that secured the legi...

publisher: Springer
year: 2017
description:This book is a reflection on the nature of confinement, experienced by prison inmates as everyday life. It explores the meanings, purposes, and consequences involved with spending every day inside prison. Female Imprisonment results from an ethnograp...

publisher: Springer
year: 2018
description:This collection considers human rights and incarceration in relation to the liberal-democratic states of Australia, New Zealand and the UK. It presents original case-study material on groups that are disproportionately affected by incarceration, incl...