Development in Infancy reflects many new discoveries that have transformed our understanding of infants and their place in human development, with an emphasis on 21st century research.
Policing Women examines for the first time the changing historical landscape of women's experiences of their contact with the official state police between 1800 and 1950 in the Western world.
Policing Women examines for the first time the changing historical landscape of women's experiences of their contact with the official state police between 1800 and 1950 in the Western world.
Cada año, millones de personas en todo el mundo mueren por causas prevenibles relacionadas con afectaciones a la salud pública, entre ellas, los siniestros de tránsito.
Este libro es el resultado de un esfuerzo colectivo por parte de ex alumnos del Taller Global para Jóvenes Defensores de Derechos Humanos, organizado cada año por Dejusticia.
An indispensable resource for understanding religion's place in American schools and in matters concerning the separation of church and state in the United States.
"El reconocimiento de la salud como Derecho humano fundamental, tras la segunda guerra mundial del siglo XX, naturalizó, junto a otros efectos, que su protección alcanzase los niveles máximos que permite el ordenamiento jurídico a través de la intervención penal para las afectaciones más graves contra la misma.
This book points to an emerging set of ideas and practices being developed by activists, scholars, and courts from a range of countries that reveals the potential of human rights to resolve other radical injustices and to build more robust civil society movements against inequality and deregulation.
Esta guía recoge las principales reglas de derecho vigentes en el orden interamericano en materia de libertad de expresión y fue diseñada como un insumo básico y sintético para apoyar a los jueces y operadores jurídicos, a lo largo de las Américas, que deben aplicar las normas internacionales (especialmente las interamericanas) que consagran y protegen el derecho fundamental a la libertad de expresión.
The Handbook on Contemporary Issues in Health, Crime, and Punishment covers many topics on the numerous ways in which mental and physical health and criminal justice system contact influence one another and are intricately intertwined.
Collecting authoritative contributions, Psychoanalytic, Psychosocial, and Human Rights Perspectives on Enforced Disappearance combines the life experience of victims with the expertise of scholars and practitioners of human rights, psychoanalysis, and artists to compose a picture that renders the complexity of this crime in its legal, psychological, and social aspects.
This book provides a comprehensive analysis of the current directions in social rehabilitation scholarship and research by bringing together the voices of legal scholars, criminal justice professionals, social scientists, and people directly impacted by criminal justice in a comparative, international, and interdisciplinary fashion.
Bringing together cutting-edge theory and research that bridges academic disciplines from criminology and criminal justice, to developmental psychology, sociology, and political science, Thinking About Victimization offers an authoritative and refreshingly accessible overview of scholarship on the nature, sources, and consequences of victimization.
La alianza entre grupos religiosos y grupos conservadores se ha valido de la instrumentalización del concepto de laicidad y ha puesto en cuestión su utilidad en América Latina.
An indispensable resource for understanding religion's place in American schools and in matters concerning the separation of church and state in the United States.
A raíz de la propuesta de crear una oficina de país del Alto Comisionado de las Naciones Unidas para los Derechos Humanos (ACNUDH) en Venezuela, surge la necesidad de explorar diferentes experiencias que puedan dar luces a quienes, desde la sociedad civil en general y del movimiento de derechos humanos en particular, tienen interés en impulsar una mayor presencia y monitoreo del sistema internacional de derechos humanos en este país.
Abortion and Reproductive Rights in Slovenia: A Case of Resistance provides a detailed and in-depth analysis of the situation of sexual and reproductive rights in Slovenia.
In Judging Insanity, Punishing Difference, Chloe Deambrogio explores how developments in the field of forensic psychiatry shaped American courts' assessments of defendants' mental health and criminal responsibility over the course of the twentieth century.
Luego de décadas de una política de mano dura contra el delito, muchos Estados de América se enfrentan hoy a una paradoja: mientras han aumentado el uso del encarcelamiento a tal punto que el hacinamiento de sus cárceles se ha desbordado, Latinoamérica se ha convertido en el continente con las cifras más altas de homicidios en el mundo.
Activists, particularly those based in the global South, have accumulated a wealth of experience in dealing with a range of transnational networks operating in diverse issue areas.
Este libro además de mostrar en qué grado se implementan en el mundo las sentencias sobre los derechos sociales, estudia también factores causales y estrategias que han mostrado utilidad práctica.
The revised tenth edition of this core textbook provides an understanding of major world criminal justice systems by discussing and comparing the systems of six of the world's countries - each representative of a different type of legal system.
This book tells the story of the Lebanese Shi'a and their development from a marginalized, discriminated minority to a highly politicized community that has given birth to Hezbollah, one of the most powerful paramilitary forces in the contemporary Middle East.
Los siniestros viales se han convertido en uno de los mayores problemas para el país que conlleva graves consecuencias tanto para la economía y la salud, como para la estabilidad de las familias.
En las últimas décadas, los litigios civiles en contra de actores económicos por violaciones de los derechos humanos se han llevado a cabo en los tribunales estadounidenses utilizando el Alien Tort Statute, un estatuto promulgado en el siglo XVIII que estipula la responsabilidad civil de los infractores del derecho de gentes o de los tratados de Estados Unidos.
Bringing together cutting-edge theory and research that bridges academic disciplines from criminology and criminal justice, to developmental psychology, sociology, and political science, Thinking About Victimization offers an authoritative and refreshingly accessible overview of scholarship on the nature, sources, and consequences of victimization.
This book collects and analyzes a repertoire of responses by human rights organizations to the crackdown against civil society in the populist context.
Setting Relations Right in Restorative Practice is a practical guide to using restorative processes, both in justice systems, to provide a healing response to harm, and in broader community contexts, to help people co-exist peacefully.
