Social law and Medical law

Homicide: Towards a Deeper Understanding offers an in-depth analysis into the phenomenon of homicide, examining different types of homicide and how these types have changed over time.

This volume offers a rare mix of interpretive chapters and primary sources that will be of value to anyone interested in learning about important disability-related issues and exploring the perspectives of disabled people.

This concise updated collection of essential EU primary and secondary law effectively guides students to the material they need during exams.

The Taiwan issue has always been a core national interest of mainland China, which has steadfastly vowed to fulfill national reunification.

The Nordic countries are well known globally for their high human rights standards and, at the same time, high degree of internet freedom.

How have national identities changed, developed and reacted in the wake of transition from communism to democracy in Central and Eastern Europe?

Grundlagen der KriseninterventionDas Standardwerk stellt die sozialwissenschaftlichen Grundlagen der Krisenintervention durch die Kinder- und Jugendhilfe dar, gibt einen differenzierten Überblick über die derzeitige Praxis und erläutert umfassend die rechtlichen Regelungen der sozialpädagogischen Krisenintervention.

Research on sexual violence has been a growing area of academic study since the 1970s.

During the last decade in particular the levels of critical engagement with the challenges posed for privacy by the new technologies have been on the rise.

A collection on cultural law that demonstrates efficacy of comparative, international, and indigenous law in the context of culture-related issues.

In a world in which media images of crime and deviance proliferate, where every facet of offending is reflected in a 'vast hall of mirrors', Framing Crime: Cultural Criminology and the Image makes sense of the increasingly blurred line between the real and the virtual.

Text, Cases and Materials on Medical Law combines detailed commentary and analysis of the law with excerpts from a range of sources, both legal and non-legal, to help set the law in context and deepen your knowledge of this contentious and highly emotive area of law.

Why the Police Should be Trained by Black People aligns scholarly and community efforts to address how Black people are policed.

This book is an essential introduction to the complex issues and debates in the field of law and film.

Analysing the strategies people use to resist, accept and respond to laws that attempt to shape not just their behaviour, but also their identity, this book pursues a critical engagement with legal gender transition.

Society is obsessed with categorising and treating individuals and groups according to their physical and non-physical differences, such as sex, gender, disability and race.

The Routledge Handbook of Heritage and the Law sheds light on the relationship between the two fields and analyses how the law shapes heritage and heritage practice in both expected and unexpected ways.

Now more than ever, the criminal justice system, and the programs, policies, and practices within it, are subject to increased public scrutiny, due to well-founded concerns over effectiveness, fairness, and potential unintended consequences.

This book points to a crisis at the heart of modern family law's treatment of "e;collaborative family-making"e;: gamete contributions, surrogate motherhood, adoption, functional parenthood, foster care, and kin caregiving.

This book presents an ethnography of dispute processing by non-state forums and actors in rural India.

This book provides a theory-to-practice breakdown of the Mental Capacity Act 2005 and what its implications are for health and social care workers.

Traditionally, consumer law has played an instrumental role in the EU as a tool for market integration.

Circumcision is a cultural phenomenon that affects 15.

This edited volume presents the work of academics from the Global South and explores, from local and regional settings, how the legal order and people's perceptions of it translates into an understanding of what constitutes "e;criminal"e; behaviors or activities.

A stirring account of the years that the leftist Jewish lawyer Ernst Fraenkel spent in Nazi Germany resisting the regime.

This title was first published in 2003.

This book provides an anthropological exploration of the ways in which crime is perceived and defined, focusing on notions of truth, intentionality, and evidence.

This interdisciplinary volume presents a nuanced critique of the prison experience in diverse detention facilities across Africa.

Crime is undergoing a metamorphosis.

This volume brings together leading research articles in to the theory, research findings and applications of modern dispute resolution.

This book demonstrates the utility of healthcare law, policy and professional standards in analysing the ethical issues that arise in the provision of health services.

This book addresses emerging questions concerning who should bear responsibility for shouldering risk, as well as the viability of existing and experimental governance mechanisms in connection with new technologies.

The drug control regime established by the international community has not succeeded in curbing either the demand for, or the offer of, narcotics.

Canvassing the socio-legal context for youth detention in Australia with a focus on international human rights law and legal frameworks within Australian states and territories, this book examines the recurring children's rights-violations of recent years, and puts forward strategies for reform.

In a critical engagement with the function of public law and with constitutionalism in its political dimensions, this volume brings together the reflections of three leading constitutionalists: Martin Loughlin, James Tully and Frank Michelman.

Drawing on empirical data from women who pay for sexual services and those who provide services to women, this ground-breaking study is the first of its kind in the UK, detailing the experiences of women who pay for sex in an explicit, direct, prearranged way.

Why is it that some countries comply with international laws, while others disregard them?

In this book, Laurence Armand French frames the emergence of medical, clinical, and legal ethical standards within the long history of institutional and systemic racial and gender biases in the United States.

Accusing someone of committing a crime arrests everyday social relations and unfurls processes that decide on who to admit to criminal justice networks.

Through interdisciplinary research, this book explores the continued cause of the significant gender pay gap that still exists in many countries today.

The Land is the Source of Law brings an inter-jurisdictional dimension to the field of indigenous jurisprudence: comparing Indigenous legal regimes in New Zealand, the USA and Australia, it offers a 'dialogical encounter with an Indigenous jurisprudence' in which individuals are characterised by their rights and responsibilities into the Land.

First published in 1999, this volume examines how the challenge of defining and developing an effective structure of fundamental social rights for workers has long been a focus for debate at European level.

Globalisation, and the vast migrations of capital and labour that have accompanied it in recent decades, has transformed family law in once unimaginable ways.

Utilizing a model derived from literature on environmental justice overlaid with multiple scales of agriculture, Environmental Justice and Farm Labor provides key insights about laborers in agriculture in the United States.