Social law and Medical law

Written opinions are the primary means by which judges communicate with external actors.

Using novel, bioethical framing alongside critical and comprehensive analysis of harm reduction approaches, this cutting-edge book addresses the multifaceted and transdisciplinary issue of drug addiction in society, exploring how addiction can be conceptualized from various disciplinary perspectives for positive policy outcomes.

This title was first published in 2001.

This book examines administrative law in Asia, exploring the profound changes in the legal regimes of many Asian states that have taken place in recent years.

This book provides a comprehensive analysis of the illicit practice of football trafficking, focusing on the exploitation of underage African players being transferred to Europe.

This volume cross-examines mainstream approaches to studying legal culture (e.

This volume draws together essays from leading scholars on the challenges that arise for health, law, policy and ethics at the intersections of health, rights and globalization.

In the early 1970s, the problem of abuse within the family unit began to surface on a large scale and 1975 was a particularly significant year for the recognition of interfamilial violence.

This book explores the Care Trust concept promoted by central government for improving partnership working between health and social care.

The entanglement of law and religion is reiterated on a daily basis in India.

The Scene of the Mass Crime takes up the unwritten history of the peculiar yet highly visible form of war crimes trials.

Women, Reentry and Employment: Criminalized and Employable?

In the post-2001 context of economic and political conflict, this book presents a timely and detailed examination of the role of the criminal law in the protection of the existing order from political dissent and destabilization.

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.

Tackling juvenile offending has become a key part of crime reduction strategies.

This book addresses the criminalisation of sexually explicit material depicting or describing fictitious characters who appear to be children.

'In this important contribution to the analysis and construction of European Union citizenship, Charlotte O'Brien provides her characteristic blend of rigorous legal scholarship and compelling social vision.

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Gender equality and the importance of the law in combating discrimination are issues explored by this insightful work.

Multistakeholder governance is proposed as the way forward in global governance.

Understanding Victimology: An Active Learning Approach is the only textbook with extensive discussion of both online and offline victimization reinforced by group and individual learning activities.

In defiance of the refugee abyss, this book presents the flesh of pained bodies and the breath of displaced voices, contributing to the thread of traces yet to be forged and the politics yet to emerge, in a world where Relation takes precedence.

This book offers a multi-discursive analysis of the constitutional foundations for peaceful coexistence, the constitutional background for discontent and the impact of discontent, and the consequences of conflict and revolution on the constitutional order of a democratic society which may lead to its implosion.

In contrast to other figures generated within social theory for thinking about outsiders, such as Rene Girard's 'scapegoat' and Zygmunt Bauman's 'stranger', Foucault's Monsters and the Challenge of Law suggests that the figure of 'the monster' offers greater analytical precision and explanatory power in relation to understanding the processes whereby outsiders are constituted.

This book explores the human rights consequences of recent and ongoing revisions of mental health legislation in England and Ireland.

Applying a legal pluralist framework, this study examines the complex interrelationships between religion, law and politics in contemporary Ghana, a professedly secular State characterised by high levels of religiosity.

This title was first published in 2002.

Following on from her previous nine books on discrimination law, Anne-Marie Mooney Cotter now focuses on the goal of child equality.

Focusing on a matter of continuing contemporary significance, this book is the first work to offer an in-depth exploration of exploitation in the doctor-patient relationship.

Incarceration severely affects the health and wellbeing of women both during their incarceration and following release, further complicating the health disparities they already experience as a consequence of gender, race and social class.

Emerging medical technologies are changing our views on human nature and what it means to be alive, healthy, and leading a good life.

It has been claimed by fertility experts that embryos can be screened for 6,000 diseases, thereby the risk of x-linked diseases can be minimised by 'cherry-picking' male embryos that do not carry the abnormal gene.

Examines emerging assisted reproductive technologies that will revolutionise the future of human reproduction and their regulation.

The Augustan Age (1962) examines the writing of the time, and the critical theory that supported it.

Restorative justice is the policy of eschewing traditional punishments in favour of group counselling involving both victims and perpetrators.

Through a comparative analysis involving 13 countries from Africa, America, Asia and Europe, this book provides an invaluable assessment of women's equality at the global level.

The recent mass shooting of 22 innocent people in El Paso by a lone White gunman looking to "e;Kill Mexicans"e; is not new.

A practical guide to reform of the regulatory environment for access to government held data for research.

Linking critical legal thinking to constitutional scholarship and a practical tradition of US lawyering that is orientated around anti-poverty activism, this book offers an original, revisionist account of contemporary jurisprudence, legal theory and legal activism.

Analyses the limitations of respect for autonomy and consent in human research ethics and explores alternative ethical approaches.

Sammelband mit Beiträgen von 28 Expertinnen und Experten aus dem Bereich der assistierten Reproduktion.

This book shows how the legal systems of individual European countries protect patient autonomy.

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With contributions from international policing experts, this book is the first of its kind to bring together a broad range of scholarship on translational criminology and policing.