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  • - Gay People on Trial
    av Lisa Melinda Keen
    384,-

  • - Politics and Cultures of Legal Identities
    av Gad Barzilai
    376,-

  • - Capital Punishment and the Late Liberal State
    av Timothy V. Kaufman-Osborn
    376,-

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

  • - Law and Narrative in African American Life
    av Jon-Christian Suggs
    1 394,-

    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.'

  • - Prison and Politics in the Era of the Big House, 1920-1955
    av Charles Bright
    1 196,-

  • - The HIV/AIDS Ward at Limestone Prison
    av Benjamin Dov Fleury-Steiner
    670,-

    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.

  • - Same-sex Marriage and the Politics of Civil Rights
    av Jonathan Goldberg-Hiller
    336,-

  • - Fear and Citizenship in American Public Education
    av William (Bill) Thomas Lyons
    384,-

    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.

  • - Torture, Terror, and Sovereignty
    av Paul W. Kahn
    1 243,-

    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.

  • - Essays on Law, Narrative and the Family
    av Carol Weisbrod
    339,-

  • av Keally D. McBride
    324,-

    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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