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Evil, law and the state : perspectives on state power and violence /
The topic of "evil" means different things depending upon context. For some, it is an archaic term, while others view it as a central problem of ethics, psychology, or politics. Coupled with state power, the problem of evil takes on a special salience for most observers. When governments d...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Amsterdam ; New York :
Rodopi,
2006.
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| Colección: | At the interface/probing the boundaries ;
v. 24. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Pain, interrogation, and the body : state violence and the law of torture / John T. Parry
- "Too many foreigners for my taste" : law, race and ethnicity in California, 1848-1852 / Fernando Purcell
- Protection, harm and social evil : the age of consent, c.1885-c.1940 / Shani D'Cruze
- Sin, scandal, and disaster : politics and crime in contemporary Turkey / Ruth A. Miller
- Adding injury to injury : the case of rape and prostitution in Turkey / İştar Göazydın
- Exception as the norm and the fiction of sovereignty : the lack of the right to health care in the Occupied Territories / Dani Filc and Hadas Ziv
- Mental health care during apartheid in South Africa : an illustration of how "science" can be abused / Alban Burke
- Schistosomiasis and capital Marxism / Rui Zhu
- The inevitable impunity of suicide terrorists / Elena A. Baylis
- The lessons of Nuremberg and the trial of Saddam Hussein / Douglas J. Sylvester
- Responsibility for atrocity : individual criminal agency and the International Criminal Court / Kirsten Ainley
- Humanity and inhumanity : state power and the force of law in the prescription of juridical norms / Roberto Buonamano
- New balance, evil, and the scales of justice / Vincent Luizzi
- The execution as sacrifice / Jody Lyneé Madeira
- Legitimacy and violence : on the relation between law and justice according to Rawls and Derrida / Bram Ieven.