Challenging the rule(s) of law : colonialism, criminology and human rights in India /
This book re-examines the field of criminology through an interdisciplinary lens, challenging in the process unproblematic assumptions of the rule of law and opening out avenues for a renewed and radical restatement of the contexts of criminal law in India.
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Thousand Oaks, Calif. :
SAGE Publications,
2008.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Laws of metamorphosis : from nomad to offender / Meena Radhakrishna
- Victims and villains : the construction of female criminality in colonial Calcutta / Sumanta Banerjee
- 'That despicable specimen of humanity' : policing of homosexuality in India / Arvind Narrain
- Sexual assault and the law / Kalpana Kannabiran
- Social exclusion and criminal law / S.R. Sankaran
- Building a subaltern women's perspective / Jayshree P. Mangubhai and Aloysius Irudayam S.J.
- Whose life is it anyway? : Adivasi communities and entitlements to life / Seema Misra
- Preserving wellness and personhood : a psychosocial approach to the child / Shekhar P. Seshadri and Kaveri I. Haritas
- Penal strategies and political resistance in colonial and independent India / Ujjwal Kumar Singh
- Communities, gender and the border : a legal narrative on India's North East / Paula Banerjee
- Parens Patriae : exercising patriarchal prerogative in post-partition India / Ritu Menon
- Law and life in the state of nature : archiving stories from legal literacy / Abha Singhal Joshi
- Revisiting impunity and criminality : of corruption, collusion, consequences and victims / Vijay K. Nagaraj
- Khap Panchayats in Haryana : sites of legal pluralism / K.S. Sangwan
- Crimes, passion and detachment : colonial foundations of rule of law / Ranabir Samaddar
- Conspiracies of association : associational offences, associational freedoms and the rule of law / K.G. Kannabiran
- Of strong medicine and weak stomachs : the resort to enhanced punishment in criminal law in India / Bikram Jeet Batra
- The contexts of criminology : a brief restatement / Kalpana Kannabiran.