In Coercion and Responsibility in Islam, Mairaj Syed explores how classical Muslim theologians and jurists from four intellectual traditions argue about the thorny issues that coercion raises about responsibility for one's action.
Loss of biodiversity is one of the great environmental challenges facing humanity but unfortunately efforts to reduce the rate of loss have so far failed.
Arising from Soviet prison camps in the 1930s, career criminals known as 'thieves-in-law' exist in one form or another throughout post-Soviet countries and have evolved into major transnational organized criminal networks since the dissolution of the USSR.
Over the past few years, opposition to the privatisation in public services in the United Kingdom and elsewhere has grown, especially in areas related to criminal justice.
With expert evidence used more and more often in criminal jury cases, evaluation of its admissibility and presentation is being increasingly thrust into the spotlight.
Widely considered the most important Orthodox theologian of the twentieth century, Dumitru Staniloae (1903-1993) contributed significantly to an ecumenical understanding of these themes.
This book investigates the impact of Approved Document M-introduced to address accessibility and usability issues for people with disabilities in newly constructed facilities-on different university buildings in the United Kingdom.
This comparative study deals with the important social phenomenon of sectarianism in four medium-sized cotton towns of northwest England -- Bolton, Preston, Stockport, and Blackburn -- between 1832 and 1870.
Die Europäische Union wird in wenigen Jahren einen neuen Erweiterungsschub durch Länder auf dem Westbalkan und in Südosteuropa erleben, denen bereits eine konkrete Beitrittsperspektive eingeräumt wurde.
This, the first of two volumes of Liberty and Union, is a comprehensive constitutional history of the United States from the Anglo-American origins of the Constitution through the colonial and antebellum periods, to the Civil War and the consequent restructuring of the nation.
Esta obra presenta un estudio completo y clarificador de una de las corrientes que concurren en el planteamiento y explicación de la metodología jurídica: la tópica.
"e;Polygraphy;' "e;lie detection;' and the "e;detection of deception"e; are all terms that refer to an application of the science of psychophysiology, which itself employs physiological measures to study and differentiate between psychological processes.
A data-driven explanation of when successful religious parties reduce the civil liberties of their citizens in Muslim-majority countries and when they don't.
Die Gerichtsentscheidungen im Fall Ramstein zeigen, dass deutsche Gericht oftmals zögern, außenpolitische Sachverhalte am Maßstab des Völkerrechts zu messen.
First published in 1998, this volume examines risk in probation practice through consideration of the context, the risk differences and how to reconcile them.
Emerging traits of late global modernity such as transnationalism, multiculturalism, individualization and supranational contexts of action raise the question of what holds society together.
