Political control and freedoms

This book offers the first book-length explanation of the UN's politics of selective humanitarian intervention.

This book provides an insightful analysis of recent developments in immigration, asylum and citizenship law in the broader social and political context.

This book addresses the challenges within teaching Criminology and Criminal Justice, for students studying and academics involved in designing and delivering courses at an undergraduate and postgraduate level.

This book tackles the question of why the United States is so resistant to radical change towards economic justice and peace.

This book examines why press freedom has not become part of the established international human rights debate, despite its centrality to democratic theory.

This volume offers an empirical perspective on the so-called first generation of human rights.

This book critically examines the making and persistence of impoverished areas at the margins of Romanian cities since the late 1980s.

This book analyses Chile's "e;truth and justice"e; policies implemented between 1990 and 2013.

This edited volume demonstrates how an educational linguistics approach to inquiry is well positioned to identify, examine, and theorize the language and literacy dimensions of refugee-background learners' experiences.

This book explores the complexity of the Syrian question and its effects on the foreign policies of Russia, Iran, and Turkey.

Writing Constitutions intends to serve as a practical manual for those writing constitutions or interested in their design.

This book sheds new light on the emergence and fluctuation of Iran's connections with non-state entities in the Middle East.

This book is the first to systematically examine the connection between religion and transitional justice in post-communism.

This textbook provides a greater understanding of the lived effect that social policies have on service users and carers.

This first study of faith-based development NGOs' (FBOs) political roles focuses on how U.

This interdisciplinary volume offers a range of studies spanning the various historical, political, legal, and cultural features of social justice in Iran, and proposes that the present-day realities of life in Iran could not be farther from the promises of the Iranian Revolution.

This book argues that homophobia plays a fundamental role in disputes for hegemony between antagonists during political transitions.

This book explores how Nostra Aetate, the Declaration on the Relation of the Church with Non-Christian Religions of the Second Vatican Council, can influence inter-religious dialogue and understanding in the modern world.

This book introduces "e;biolaw"e; as an integrated and distinct field in contemporary legal studies.

This book focuses on the tension between the protection of human rights recognised as jus cogens (peremptory) norms, on the one hand, and the bestowal of immunity on the state and its representatives, on the other, to ascertain how these immunities can be eroded, if not fully abolished, to maintain full protection of jus cogens human rights under international law.

This book critically explores the world of older prisoners to provide a more nuanced understanding of imprisonment at old age.

In this book, Lopez proposes the 'political imaginary' model as a tool to better understand what human rights are in practice, and what they might, or might not, be able to achieve.

This edited volume concerns childhood throughout South America after the 1990s, a period and territory of special complexity marked by the beginning-or intensification of-political neoliberalisation throughout the region.

This book offers a systematic analysis of how the interaction between language of security and language of rights produces policies which not only affect everyday functioning of democracy, but also redefine the understanding of sovereignty.

This textbook provides a thorough and systematic overview of human rights law, including the most relevant practice and case law, but also dealing with theoretical issues.

This book provides a novel exploration of time and temporality in relation to punishment and criminal sanctioning.

High levels of police corruption have been a persistent historical tendency in police services throughout the world.

As globalization processes and related neoliberal agendas promote privatization through state action, people's struggles for rights to water have intensified.

There is an emerging consensus that what is projected as democratic governance and justice in Africa requires a re-calibration, in particular, in relation to the constitutive demos, human rights, the realisation of commitments at various governance levels and the convergence between these ideations.

This book challenges readers to imagine social entrepreneurship as an innovative, creative model for building justice and sustainability.

This book asks whether the decision to lock down the world was justified in proportion to the potential harms and risks generated by the Covid-19 virus.

The book rethinks the means of harmonization of prima facie norm conflicts in light of the multitude of international agreements across regimes.

This interdisciplinary volume represents the first comprehensive English-language analysis of the development of Protestant Christianity in Xiamen from the nineteenth century to the present.

This book critically looks at the tensions between the promise to transform education through the use of digital technology and the tendency to utilize digital technology in instrumental and technical ways.

This book examines the management of migratory flows in the Mediterranean within an international security perspective.

This book examines the global campaign to end hunger and malnutrition.

This book offers a unique and powerful critique of the quest for international criminal justice.

This book contends that the impasse of the Left today is in part, a result of an anarchist 'common sense' among activists.

This book critically examines transitional justice in Mexico.

At a moment when both think tanks and experts are being questioned, significant policy and technology disruptions have called into question the value and efficacy of policy advice.

The book subjects the largely hidden phenomenon of benefit sanctions in the UK to sustained examination and critique.

This book seeks to break new ground in the way in which adolescent-to-parent violence and abuse is understood.

This book applies the dynamic field of transitional justice to conflict resolution in Israel/Palestine.

This handbook engages key debates in Australian and New Zealand criminology over the last 50 years.

This book provides a unique perspective on addressing issues of various forms of violence against children from scholars within their own country.

This innovative edited collection provides a comprehensive analysis of modern secularism across Asia which contests and expands prevailing accounts that have predominantly focused on the West.

This book contains the full research papers presented at  the 20th AGILE Conference on Geographic Information Science, held in 2017 at Wageningen University &  Research  in Wageningen, the Netherlands.

This book draws upon empirical data to offer a fresh and unique perspective on hate crime victimisation, using transphobic hate crime as a case study.

This book offers vivid insights into policies of religious education in schools since the series of wars in former Yugoslavia in the 1990's.

This edited collection analyses the prison through the most fundamental challenge it faces: escapes.