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.
ARABS & ISRAEL FOR BEGINNERS covers the Middle East from ancient times to the present, tells the truth in plain English, and is one of the few non-scholarly books that is relentlessly fair to both Jews and Arabs.
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.
American Heresy uncovers the complex legacy of America's founding principles, demonstrating how the very same values have produced both good fruit and the bitter harvest of white Christian nationalism.
Bringing together 17 authors from diverse perspectives, Insights on Journalism and Human Rights offers an accessible introduction to the characteristics and complexities of reporting human rights issues in a changing media environment.
This book provides an analysis of how penal discourses are used to legitimate post-Cold War military interventions through three main case studies: Kosovo, Iraq and Libya.
This book provides an analysis of how penal discourses are used to legitimate post-Cold War military interventions through three main case studies: Kosovo, Iraq and Libya.
In diesem Sammelband werden die historischen, politischen und gesellschaftlichen Facetten der politischen Systeme der einzelnen Länder des Mittleren Ostens analysiert.
Addressing a dearth of literature in this area, this book provides a comprehensive overview and framework of study of the politics of religious tourism.
Addressing a dearth of literature in this area, this book provides a comprehensive overview and framework of study of the politics of religious tourism.
In diesem Sammelband werden die historischen, politischen und gesellschaftlichen Facetten der politischen Systeme der einzelnen Länder des Mittleren Ostens analysiert.
This book introduces readers to Catholic social teaching, the Church's long tradition of reflection on the meaning of social justice and how to enact it.
