Political control and freedoms

There is a growing acknowledgment amongst professionals and academics that we need to develop new responses to crime.

This volume in the series Sociology of Crime, Law, and Deviance edited by Mathieu Deflem addresses contemporary issues of policing with a focus on the characteristics of police power as a coercive force in society and its continued need for legitimacy in a democratic social order.

The 60th volume of Studies in Law, Politics, and Society edited by Austin Sarat, is an essential text for legal scholars with a unique focus on the disciplines of sociology, politics and the humanities.

Can religious individuals and communities learn from each other in ways that will lead them to collaborate in addressing the great ethical challenges of our time, including climate change and endless warfare?

In a fallen world, politics will be a brutal, at times violent, sport.

In 1956 Bayard Rustin taught Martin Luther King Jr.

Examines relationships between black and white Detroit residents through the lens of 1967, fifty years later.

For over four decades, events in Palestine-Israel have provoked raging conflicts within British universities around issues of free speech, 'extremism', antisemitism and Islamophobia.

This most thorough and contemporary examination of the religious features of the UK state and its monarchy argues that the long reign of Elizabeth has led to a widespread lack of awareness of the centuries old religious features of the state that are revealed at the accession and coronation of a new monarch.

In the wake of same-sex marriage legalization, most religious conservatives realize that they now share a minority viewpoint on many social issues.

The religion of Orange politics offers an in-depth anthropological account of the Orange Order in Scotland.

Religious liberty is often called "e;the first freedom.

Behind-the-scenes anecdotes and first-person recollections from forty-nine diverse people illuminate their personal relationships with Ronald Reagan.

The twenty-first century has seen violence thunder back onto the stage of history.

It is one thing to craft superb human rights tenets in a constitution and another to enforce such policies in practice.

Big Brother gets up close and personal.

Sick of the total BS of rampant PC?

Bodies of Truth offers an intimate account of how apartheid victims deal with the long-term effects of violence, focusing on the intertwined themes of embodiment, injury, victimhood, and memory.

Through its strength in numbers and remarkable presence in politics, Pentecostalism has become a force to reckon with in twenty-first-century Zambian society.

Justice VR Krishna Iyer, over 93, in his book, has highlighted empirical and path breaking judicial, legislative, executive, humanitarian, electoral and various humane episodes.

For over four decades, events in Palestine-Israel have provoked raging conflicts within British universities around issues of free speech, 'extremism', antisemitism and Islamophobia.

This book analyses the principle of equality from three perspectives: public international law, private international law and EU law.

This book critically examines how and why Eastern enlargement has impacted on EU human rights policy.

Nonie Darwish lived for thirty years in a majority Muslim nation.

The business of birth control is the first book-length study to examine contraceptives as commodities in Britain before the pill.

The new edition of Mark Lewis Taylors award-winning The Executed God is both a searing indictment of the structures of Lockdown America and a visionary statement of hope.

This book tells the story of the emergence of the concept of crimes against humanity.

More man a oecaoe aner me Taliban were ousted from power.

Is there life after death?

Everyone is paying attention to Pope Francis, and that includes the most unlikely of admirers: a female Baptist pastor.

This book critically examines how and why Eastern enlargement has impacted on EU human rights policy.

Brian Bantum says that race is not merely an intellectual category or a biological fact.

Immigration has long been associated with the urban landscape, from accounts of inner-city racial tension and discrimination during the 1960s and 1970s and studies of minority communities of the 1980s and 1990s, to the increased focus on cities amongst contemporary scholars of migration and diaspora.

Quality interrogation is an essential ingredient of any investigation.

The book addresses authoritarian legacies of politically motivated justice and its unwritten practices that have re-emerged in the recent trials related to both political and ordinary criminal charges against prominent opposition leaders in many former Soviet republics.

This study is an attempt at explaining the social structure of India with reference to untouchability.

In this collection of essays, interviews, and speeches, the renowned activist examines today's issues-from Black Lives Matter to prison abolition and more.

Encyclopaedia of Human Rights covers the vast field of human rights at all levels, i.

Combining a historical perspective that traces lines of continuity and change in Arab liberalism, an integrative discussion of cross-sectional themes, and a comparative analysis of the West, Turkey and Iran, this book seeks to enrich our knowledge of liberal thought in the Arab Middle East.

Can reading make us better citizens?

The introduction of FOI in Ireland was a watershed moment in Irish democracy.

';I worked in a trailer that ICE had set aside for conversations between the women and the attorneys.

This book provides a profound exploration of the concept of a "e;human minimum"e; as articulated by the renowned African philosopher H.

The 1948 war that led to the creation of the State of Israel also resulted in the destruction of Palestinian society when some 80 per cent of the Palestinians who lived in the major part of Palestine upon which Israel was established became refugees.

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How differing forms of repression shape the outcomes of democratic transitionsIn the wake of the Arab Spring, newly empowered factions in Tunisia and Egypt vowed to work together to establish democracy.

An intimate and moving portrait of daily life in New York's oldest institution of traditional rabbinic learningNew York City's Lower East Side has witnessed a severe decline in its Jewish population in recent decades, yet every morning in the big room of the city's oldest yeshiva, students still gather to study the Talmud beneath the great arched windows facing out onto East Broadway.

In the summer of 1964, the turmoil of the civil rights movement reached its peak in Mississippi, with activists across the political spectrum claiming that God was on their side in the struggle over racial justice.

A compelling account of the threat immigration control poses to the citizens of free societies Immigration is often seen as a danger to western liberal democracies because it threatens to undermine their fundamental values, most notably freedom and national self-determination.

A groundbreaking look at how the interrogation rooms of the Korean War set the stage for a new kind of battle-not over land but over human subjectsTraditional histories of the Korean War have long focused on violations of the thirty-eighth parallel, the line drawn by American and Soviet officials in 1945 dividing the Korean peninsula.