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Strategies for Compliance - Tools, Techniques and Challenges in Financial Services (Paperback): Alan Brener Strategies for Compliance - Tools, Techniques and Challenges in Financial Services (Paperback)
Alan Brener
R1,437 Discovery Miles 14 370 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

Compliance is a fundamental control function within regulated industries globally. This book provides an expert introduction to corporate compliance using cases, examples and insights from the financial services sector and beyond. The author, an experienced compliance practitioner and academic, highlights compliance challenges, using examples such as Wells Fargo, whistleblowing in the financial services and the mis-selling of payment protection insurance in the UK banking sector. The book explores strategies for creating compliant cultures and fostering regulatory trust, whilst practical guidance is provided on anticipating regulatory changes. Addressing organisational obstruction and delay, the author presents a series of valuable tools and techniques for real-world practice. An essential professional development resource for board directors, compliance officers and other senior managers, the book also provides a unique learning and development resource for students of corporate compliance globally.

Sea Level Change and Maritime Boundaries - Shifting Baselines and Maritime Spaces (Hardcover): Antoine Grima Sea Level Change and Maritime Boundaries - Shifting Baselines and Maritime Spaces (Hardcover)
Antoine Grima
R3,761 Discovery Miles 37 610 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Climate change is modifying, in varying measure, the coastal geography of States. The phenomenon is not temporary but is expected to carry on during the 21st century and beyond. A distinctive feature of modern international law is the concept of maritime zones. Each maritime area is subject to an intricate scheme of States’ rights and obligations. Coastal geography is a fundamental component of a long-standing method, developed and agreed upon between States, to establish the outward limits of these areas. A feature of this method is the baseline. In international law it is the only reference line from where the outward limits of maritime zones are measured. There are clear rules on how this is established along a coast. There is a concern amongst a number of States that rising sea water levels as a result of climate change may compel them to shift their baselines inward thus affecting the outward limits of their maritime zones. It is clear that the stability of maritime boundaries is put into question and this may bring about serious political, legal and economic repercussions. This concern may also affect the outcome of dispute settlement procedures before a competent international court or tribunal the purpose of which is to resolve overlapping maritime claims. Key questions emerge. What is the role played by coastal geography in the legal regime determining the outward limits of maritime zones? What are the consequences of changes to coastal geography? To what extent are dispute settlement procedures before a Court or Tribunal immune from this concern? Is international law able to address this? If so, in what way and what are its limits? What can be done to resolve this?

Alcohol, Crime and Public Health (Hardcover): Dorothy Newbury-Birch, Jennifer Ferguson Alcohol, Crime and Public Health (Hardcover)
Dorothy Newbury-Birch, Jennifer Ferguson
R4,036 Discovery Miles 40 360 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Alcohol, Crime and Public Health explores the issue of drinking in the criminal justice system, providing an overview of the topic from both a criminal justice and public health perspective. The majority of prisoners in the UK (70%) have an alcohol use disorder, and evidence tells us that risky drinking is high amongst those in contact with all areas of the criminal justice system. Uniquely, this book brings both a criminal justice and public health perspective to the topic. The book opens by exploring the levels of crime attributed to alcohol, the policy context of alcohol and crime, and the prevalence of risky alcohol consumption in the criminal justice system. The following chapters examine risky drinking amongst men, women and young people in the criminal justice system. The final chapters look at the efficacy of psychosocial interventions for risky drinking in the criminal justice system, and look forward to how researchers and practitioners can work together to produce research in the criminal justice system. Written in an accessible and concise style, Alcohol, Crime and Public Health will be of great use to students of Criminology, Criminal Justice, and Public Health as well as the wider area of Public and Social Policy in relation to alcohol and crime.

A Cultural Interpretation of the Genocide Convention (Paperback): Kurt Mundorff A Cultural Interpretation of the Genocide Convention (Paperback)
Kurt Mundorff
R1,250 Discovery Miles 12 500 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

This book critiques the dominant physical and biological interpretation of the Genocide Convention and argues that the idea of "culture" is central to properly understanding the crime of genocide. Using Raphael Lemkin's personal papers, archival materials from the State Department and the UN, as well as the mid-century secondary literature, it situates the convention in the longstanding debate between Enlightenment notions of universality and individualism, and Romantic notions of particularism and holism. The author conducts a thorough review of the treaty and its preparatory work to show that the drafters brought strong culturalist ideas to the debate and that Lemkin's ideas were held widely in the immediate postwar period. Reconstructing the mid-century conversation on genocide and situating it in the much broader mid-century discourse on justice and society he demonstrates that culture is not a distraction to be read out of the Genocide Convention; it is the very reason it exists. This volume poses a forceful challenge to the materialist interpretation and calls into question decades of international case law. It will be of interest to scholars of genocide, human rights, international law, the history of international law and human rights, and treaty interpretation.

Critical Criminology - Issues, Debates, Challenges (Hardcover): Russell Hogg, Kerry Carrington Critical Criminology - Issues, Debates, Challenges (Hardcover)
Russell Hogg, Kerry Carrington
R3,928 Discovery Miles 39 280 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This book explores the key issues and future prospects facing critical criminology, bringing together a set of leading authorities in the field from the UK, Australasia and the US. A key concern of the book is to review the possibilities and strategies of pursuing critical criminological scholarship in the context of an increasingly dominant administrative criminology paradigm, reflected in the rise of neo-liberalism, a "governmentalized" criminology of risk, crime control and situational crime prevention. The book is organized around three key themes: the first addresses the historical and genealogical context of the rise and demise of critical criminology in the liberal democracies; the second considers the possibility of re-envisioning critical criminological projects in the 21st century, given critiques of "rational" western thought, the impact of globalization and shifting modes of "social control" in criminal justice; while the third sets out a number of challenges and achievemen

Captive Audience - Media, Masculinity and Power in Prisons (Paperback): Yvonne Jewkes Captive Audience - Media, Masculinity and Power in Prisons (Paperback)
Yvonne Jewkes
R1,177 Discovery Miles 11 770 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This book is concerned with the media's role in everyday life, power relations and the construction of masculine identities in the context of prisons. It is based upon unique research into the nature, impact and consequences of a situation where most prisoners in English prisons have access to some media resource, whether radio or television, or with communal or individual access to it. Captive Audience charts for the first time the way in which prisons use media in coping - or failing to cope - with the pressures of prison life, exploring the impact of the media in terms of prisoner identities, shaping power relations between prisoners and other prisoners, and in helping prisoners 'get through' a prison sentence. At the same time this book raises a range of broader issues of theory and practice on the nature of the relationship between prisons, criminal justice systems and society more generally, and on the ways in which the media are conceived in everyday life. It will be of interest to all those concerned with prisons, criminology and the criminal justice system, the social role of the media, and the construction of identity.

Ecological Law and the Planetary Crisis - A Legal Guide for Harmony on Earth (Paperback): Geoffrey Garver Ecological Law and the Planetary Crisis - A Legal Guide for Harmony on Earth (Paperback)
Geoffrey Garver
R1,248 Discovery Miles 12 480 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

This book uses a transdisciplinary systems approach to examine how Earth's human-caused ecological crisis arose and presents a new legal approach for overcoming it. Ecological Law and the Planetary Crisis first examines how the history of humanity's social metabolism, along with the history of human inventions and ideas, led to the human-Earth dilemma we see today and explains why contemporary law is inadequate for confronting this dilemma. The book goes on to propose ecological law-law that maintains human activity within ecological limits such as planetary boundaries while ensuring social justice and equity-as an essential element of an urgently needed radical pathway of change toward a perpetual, mutually enhancing human-Earth relationship. Finally, it offers a systems-based analytical tool for organizing actions to promote the transition from environmental to ecological law. Increasing the visibility, clarity and development of ecological law, this book will be of great interest to students and scholars of ecological and environmental law and governance.

Rethinking What Works with Offenders - Probation, Social Context and Desistance from Crime (Hardcover): Stephen Farrall Rethinking What Works with Offenders - Probation, Social Context and Desistance from Crime (Hardcover)
Stephen Farrall
R4,002 Discovery Miles 40 020 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

1. In a time when the probation service is looking to reverse its privatisation, it is a good time to look back at the importance and legacy of past studies. 2. Rather than a straight new edition, this critical edition offers a wealth of new content, including a new chapter from the author, a new preface and four critical essays from key international figures in the field.

Law and Society in England (Hardcover): Bob Roshier, Harvey Teff Law and Society in England (Hardcover)
Bob Roshier, Harvey Teff
R5,370 Discovery Miles 53 700 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Tavistock Press was established as a co-operative venture between the Tavistock Institute and Routledge & Kegan Paul (RKP) in the 1950s to produce a series of major contributions across the social sciences. This volume is part of a 2001 reissue of a selection of those important works which have since gone out of print, or are difficult to locate. Published by Routledge, 112 volumes in total are being brought together under the name The International Behavioural and Social Sciences Library: Classics from the Tavistock Press. Reproduced here in facsimile, this volume was originally published in 1980 and is available individually. The collection is also available in a number of themed mini-sets of between 5 and 13 volumes, or as a complete collection.

Policing: A short history - A short history (Hardcover): Philip Rawlings Policing: A short history - A short history (Hardcover)
Philip Rawlings
R3,045 Discovery Miles 30 450 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This book provides an overview of the history of policing in the UK. Its primary aim is to investigate the shifting nature of policing over time, and to provide a historical foundation to today's debates. Policing: a short history moves away from a focus on the origins of the 'new police', and concentrates rather on broader (but much neglected) patterns of policing. How was there a shift from communal responsibility to policing? What has been expected of the police by the public and vice versa? How have the police come to dominate modern thinking on policing? The book shows how policing - in the sense of crime control and order maintenance - has come to be seen as the work which the police do, even though the bulk of policing is undertaken by people and organisations other than the police. This book will be essential reading for anybody interested in the history of policing, on how differing perceptions emerged on the function of policing on the part of the public, the state and the police, and in today's intense debates on what the police do.

Crypto Wars - The Fight for Privacy in the Digital Age: A Political History of Digital Encryption (Paperback): Craig Jarvis Crypto Wars - The Fight for Privacy in the Digital Age: A Political History of Digital Encryption (Paperback)
Craig Jarvis
R931 Discovery Miles 9 310 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

The crypto wars have raged for half a century. In the 1970s, digital privacy activists prophesied the emergence of an Orwellian State, made possible by computer-mediated mass surveillance. The antidote: digital encryption. The U.S. government warned encryption would not only prevent surveillance of law-abiding citizens, but of criminals, terrorists, and foreign spies, ushering in a rival dystopian future. Both parties fought to defend the citizenry from what they believed the most perilous threats. The government tried to control encryption to preserve its surveillance capabilities; privacy activists armed citizens with cryptographic tools and challenged encryption regulations in the courts. No clear victor has emerged from the crypto wars. Governments have failed to forge a framework to govern the, at times conflicting, civil liberties of privacy and security in the digital age-an age when such liberties have an outsized influence on the citizen-State power balance. Solving this problem is more urgent than ever. Digital privacy will be one of the most important factors in how we architect twenty-first century societies-its management is paramount to our stewardship of democracy for future generations. We must elevate the quality of debate on cryptography, on how we govern security and privacy in our technology-infused world. Failure to end the crypto wars will result in societies sleepwalking into a future where the citizen-State power balance is determined by a twentieth-century status quo unfit for this century, endangering both our privacy and security. This book provides a history of the crypto wars, with the hope its chronicling sets a foundation for peace.

The Routledge International Handbook of Femicide and Feminicide (Hardcover): Myrna Dawson, Saide Mobayed Vega The Routledge International Handbook of Femicide and Feminicide (Hardcover)
Myrna Dawson, Saide Mobayed Vega
R5,853 Discovery Miles 58 530 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This volume explores in depth femicide and feminicide, bringing together our current knowledge on this phenomenon and its prevention. No country is free from femicide/feminicide, which represents the tip of the iceberg in male violence against women and girls. Therefore, it is crucial and timely to better understand how states and their citizens are experiencing and responding to femicide/feminicide globally. Through the work of internationally recognised feminist and grassroots activists, researchers, and academics from around the world, this handbook offers the first in-depth, global examination of the growing social movement to address femicide and feminicide. It includes the current state of knowledge and the prevalence of femicide/feminicide and its characteristics across countries and world regions, as well as the social and legal responses to these killings. The contributions contained here look at the accomplishments of the past four decades, ongoing challenges, and current and future priorities to identify where we need to go from here to prevent femicide/feminicide specifically and male violence against women and girls overall. This transnational, multidisciplinary, cross-sectoral handbook will contribute to research, policy, and practice globally at a time when it is needed the most. It brings a visible, global focus to the growing concern about femicide/feminicide, underscoring the importance of adopting a human rights framework in working towards its prevention, in an increasingly unstable global world for women and girls.

Children, the Law and the Welfare Principle - Perspectives from North America (Hardcover): Kerry O'Halloran Children, the Law and the Welfare Principle - Perspectives from North America (Hardcover)
Kerry O'Halloran
R3,764 Discovery Miles 37 640 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This book continues the themes addressed by its two predecessors in this mini-series by examining the role of the principle of the welfare interests of the child in the law of the U.S. and Canada. It provides a record of the key milestones in its development in each country and conducts a comparative analysis of the contemporary law relating to children in both. In doing so, it focuses also on the Indigenous communities - the AN/AI and the First Nations - of the U.S. and Canada respectively. By identifying and analysing the functions of the principle in the public (care, protection and control etc), in the private (matrimonial, adoption etc), and in the hybrid (adoption from care, surrogacy etc) sectors of family law, it builds a picture of the law relating to children in the two countries and reveals significant jurisdictional differences. By examining the legislation and related caselaw it assesses the differential effect of the same legal framework on the welfare of Indigenous and other children. In addition to a digest of cases and legislation that identifies and tracks the role of this legal principle, lawyers, academics and other researchers will find a wealth of information on how it has evolved to reflect corresponding changes in social mores. For those interested in politics and social policy, there is much illuminating evidence on how the law has balanced this principle relative to others within both civil and criminal contexts.

Juristische Methoden fur Dummies (German, Paperback): W. Koenig Juristische Methoden fur Dummies (German, Paperback)
W. Koenig
R426 Discovery Miles 4 260 Ships in 7 - 13 working days

Stehen Sie gerade am Anfang eines Jura-Studiums? Oder mA1/4ssen Sie sich als Nicht-Jurist im Nebenfach mit Jura beschAftigen? Ist Ihnen die juristische Methodik noch fremd und fA1/4hlt sie sich fA1/4r Sie gewAhnungsbedA1/4rftig an? Das muss nicht so bleiben! Dieses Buch fA1/4hrt Sie in die Logik der Juristerei ein und erklArt Ihnen in gewohnt verstAndlicher und anschaulicher Dummies-Manier die Welt der NormengefA1/4ge, Sachverhalte und Fallfragen, Auslegung und Fallbearbeitung. Und ganz nebenbei erfahren Sie auch, welche juristischen TodsA1/4nden Sie auf keinen Fall begehen sollten.

Policing Images - Policing, communication and legitimacy (Hardcover): Rob Mawby Policing Images - Policing, communication and legitimacy (Hardcover)
Rob Mawby
R4,063 Discovery Miles 40 630 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

In recent years the police have become one of the most watched and most visible organisations, and across the media there has been constant interest in the police. In such a situation the police themselves have been intensely concerned with promoting, projecting and protecting the police image. This book is concerned to document and to explain this image work, the activities in which the police engage that construct and project images of policing. Drawing upon first-hand research with the police themselves (including such examples as the way the South Yorkshire Police handled the Miners Strike and the Hillsborough stadium disaster), the book includes a detailed look at police press and public relations officers at work, and at operational policing and police work. Its broader argument is that image work has the capacity to both legitimate policing and to mask problems of legitimation. At a time of intense debate about the future role and nature of the police this book makes a key contribution, and raises important questions about the implications of police image work for both democratically accountable policing and the wider transformations in society being brought about by the media and its management.

Bedouin Justice (Hardcover, New Ed): Kennett Bedouin Justice (Hardcover, New Ed)
Kennett
R4,640 R1,654 Discovery Miles 16 540 Save R2,986 (64%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Published in 1925, this is an absolute gem of a book. From the author's preface: "In the following chapters I have tried, by quoting lawsuits of all kinds, and explaining the means employed to dispose of them, to show first the conditions under which the Bedouin live, and secondly their mentality and point of view. Although the reader may possibly gather from the pages that follow that I have a real affection for the Bedou himself and admiration for most of his laws and customs, I have tried to represent his character in full, with all his faults and failings. Descriptions of particular cases have been purposely introduced, showing unmistakably that Bedouin Law is no more infallible than any other law, and that in some cases justice is not done. But in the aggregate, it will be found that the Bedou with all his faults is a very loveable person, and his code of laws and customs is remarkable for its practical common sense."

Crime, Risk and Justice - The politics of crime control in liberal democracies (Paperback): Kevin Stenson, Robert Sullivan Crime, Risk and Justice - The politics of crime control in liberal democracies (Paperback)
Kevin Stenson, Robert Sullivan
R1,175 Discovery Miles 11 750 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Crime control has risen rapidly up the social and political agendas to become a central feature of western societies. As inequalities in society have increased, so the actual and perceived risks of crime and other social ills have grown rapidly for all sections of society. Crime has become a central issue to governments, and no longer just a technical operation of law enforcement and adjudication. This book is concerned with issues arising from these developments. Top criminologists from Britain, the USA and Australia explore the links between crime and risk through a range of themes, from the depiction of crime in the media to the dilemmas of policing, to the new punitiveness of criminal justice systems and the custodial warehousing of the poor and excluded. Crime, Risk and Justice will be of interest to students, academics and practitioners with an interest in crime and crime control and the place they have in modern society.

Integrated Offender Management and the Policing of Prolific Offenders (Hardcover): Frederick Cram Integrated Offender Management and the Policing of Prolific Offenders (Hardcover)
Frederick Cram
R4,050 Discovery Miles 40 500 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This book analyses the impact of Integrated Offender Management (IOM) on contemporary policing and separates the rhetoric from the reality. Drawing on a qualitative study within an English police force over two years, this book examines the experiences of prolific offenders, subject to IOM, and sheds light on the culture and practice of the police and staff from other criminal justice agencies, working within the scheme. While IOM has been judged to have had initial successes in reducing the criminal activities of prolific offenders, this book tests the validity of such claims, and considers the apparent disjuncture between policy statements made about the workings of IOM and how IOM policing operations are realized on the ground. It makes a unique contribution to research on police culture and practice, and multi-agency working in the criminal justice system. An accessible and compelling read, this book will appeal to policy makers, as well as students and scholars of criminology, sociology policing, and politics.

Sexual Abuse Litigation - A Practical Resource for Attorneys, Clinicians, and Advocates (Paperback): Rebecca A. Rix Sexual Abuse Litigation - A Practical Resource for Attorneys, Clinicians, and Advocates (Paperback)
Rebecca A. Rix
R2,085 Discovery Miles 20 850 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Prepare a solid case with advice from successful litigators!Ideal for use as a legal guide or a practical reference, Sexual Abuse Litigation examines how professionals can responsibly and effectively advocate on behalf of adult survivors of child sexual abuse (CSA) in the midst of the controversies surrounding recovered memories. This comprehensive book places the current recovered-memory controversy in historical context and examines how various psychological and medical conceptions of trauma have shaped public opinion and the construction of delayed discovery statutes of limitations. For lawyers, advocates, clinicians, and CSA survivors, Sexual Abuse Litigation offers practical advice in clear prose and an easy-to-use format. Summaries, charts, legal practice tips, and samples of actual testimony make this book an invaluable reference tool. It also tabulates the statutes of limitations for sexual abuse cases in all fifty states. In Sexual Abuse Litigation, experienced litigators will guide you through the phases of the legal process, offering practical suggestions on: case evaluation and development the pitfalls and opportunities of professional cooperation between therapists and lawyers the effective use of plaintiff expert witnesses strategies for countering the "false memories" defense the identification of insurance benefits for injuries related to CSA techniques for cross-examining expert witnesses for the defense vital networking information, including resource referrals for adult survivors, help with appellate cases, and information on abuse by clergy and other professionalsOffering strategies for sustaining the admissibility of the CSA survivor's testimony and how to maintain focus on the question of whether abuse occurred, Sexual Abuse Litigation will give you or your client the necessary information on how to successfully prepare for a CSA case and face the challenges of such cases in the courtroom.

International Insolvency and Finance Law - Legal Constants in Times of Crises (Hardcover): Daniele D'Alvia International Insolvency and Finance Law - Legal Constants in Times of Crises (Hardcover)
Daniele D'Alvia
R1,495 Discovery Miles 14 950 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

Focusing on the Global Financial Crisis 2007-2010 and the new emerging Covid-19 crisis in 2020, this book examines the discourse on risk and uncertainty in the markets through the lens of financial crises. Such crises represent a failure of the law to regulate, and constitute the basis through which a new theory of legal constants can be introduced in comparative law. Crisis impose a dramatic reformulation of the law, the Covid-19 confirms this trend, and new out-of-law instances are appearing beyond a paternalistic approach of direct State regulation. Restructuring procedures are playing a vital role in businesses' survival, and new out-of-law mechanisms such as moratorium agreements and private workouts have become essential to preserve businesses. It is clear that the role of the law has completely changed, and this book argues that constants outside of the law are new ways to promote an "uncodified-codification" of the law. The case for uncodified uncertainty in the Covid-19 crisis is a primary example of how no codification process can ignore the importance of out-of-law instances in the act of making law. This book explores how this approach influences the harmonisation process of international economic law between national insolvency regimes and international agreed frameworks, demonstrating the role of comparative law in formulating legal constants using Covid-19 and the complexity of modern financial markets as the criterion to introduce the reader to this new theory, which claims a new role for comparative law in policy making processes within the framework of international economic law.

Sexual Abuse Litigation - A Practical Resource for Attorneys, Clinicians, and Advocates (Hardcover): Rebecca A. Rix Sexual Abuse Litigation - A Practical Resource for Attorneys, Clinicians, and Advocates (Hardcover)
Rebecca A. Rix
R5,264 Discovery Miles 52 640 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Prepare a solid case with advice from successful litigators Ideal for use as a legal guide or a practical reference, Sexual Abuse Litigation examines how professionals can responsibly and effectively advocate on behalf of adult survivors of child sexual abuse (CSA) in the midst of the controversies surrounding recovered memories. This comprehensive book places the current recovered-memory controversy in historical context and examines how various psychological and medical conceptions of trauma have shaped public opinion and the construction of delayed discovery statutes of limitations. For lawyers, advocates, clinicians, and CSA survivors, Sexual Abuse Litigation offers practical advice in clear prose and an easy-to-use format. Summaries, charts, legal practice tips, and samples of actual testimony make this book an invaluable reference tool. It also tabulates the statutes of limitations for sexual abuse cases in all fifty states. In Sexual Abuse Litigation, experienced litigators will guide you through the phases of the legal process, offering practical suggestions on: case evaluation and development the pitfalls and opportunities of professional cooperation between therapists and lawyers the effective use of plaintiff expert witnesses strategies for countering the "false memories" defense the identification of insurance benefits for injuries related to CSA techniques for cross-examining expert witnesses for the defense vital networking information, including resource referrals for adult survivors, help with appellate cases, and information on abuse by clergy and other professionalsOffering strategies for sustaining the admissibility of the CSA survivor's testimony and how to maintain focus on the question of whether abuse occurred, Sexual Abuse Litigation will give you or your client the necessary information on how to successfully prepare for a CSA case and face the challenges of such cases in the courtroom.

A History of Victims of Crime - How they Reclaimed their Rights (Hardcover): Stephen Strauss-Walsh A History of Victims of Crime - How they Reclaimed their Rights (Hardcover)
Stephen Strauss-Walsh
R4,053 Discovery Miles 40 530 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This book examines the evolution of the contemporary crime victim's procedural place within modern western societies. Taking the history of the Irish crime victim as a case study, the work charts the place of victims within criminal justice over time. This evolves from the expansive latitude that they had during the eighteenth century, to their major relegation to witness and informer in the nineteenth, and back to a more contemporary recapturing of some of their previous centrality. The book also studies what this has meant for the position of suspects and offenders as well as the population more generally. Therefore, some analysis is devoted to examining its impact on an offender's right to fair trial and social forms. It is held that the modern crime victim has transcended its position of marginality. This happened not only in law, but as the consequence of the victim's new role as a key socio-political stakeholder. This work flags the importance of victim rights conferrals, and the social transformations that engendered such trends. In this way victim re-emergence is evidenced as being not just a legal change, but a consequence of several more recent socio-cultural transformations in our societies. The book will be of interest to researchers, academics and policy makers in criminal law, human rights law, criminology and legal history.

Women, Trauma, and Journeys towards Desistance - Navigating the Labyrinth (Hardcover): Madeline Petrillo Women, Trauma, and Journeys towards Desistance - Navigating the Labyrinth (Hardcover)
Madeline Petrillo
R4,045 Discovery Miles 40 450 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Women, Trauma, and Journeys towards Desistance: Navigating the Labyrinth provides an examination of women's desistance from crime from a gender-responsive, trauma-informed perspective. The book is based on the reflections of fifty-six women over a three-year period as they transition from custody to the community. With the women, the author examines how experiences of trauma, victimisation, and intersectional oppression constrain access to traditional desistance supporting processes, including supportive relationships, identity construction, the exercise of agency, and engagement with treatment and interventions, reframing these processes from trauma-informed perspective. The book joins together the women's insights and experiences with principles of gender-responsive, trauma-informed principles in a framework through which criminal justice practitioners can support women in their efforts to leave crime behind. The framework for practice is a fusion of concepts from desistance theory, principles of gender-responsivity, and trauma-informed practice designed to help women understand the root causes of the problems they face in the present whilst building on their resilience and strengths to achieve their goals for their futures. This book is ideal reading for scholars and students of criminology and criminal justice, particularly rehabilitation, gender and crime, and feminist criminology. It will also be of interest to academics and practitioners of forensic psychology and social work, as well as probation officers, social workers and prison officers.

Upstream Oil and Gas in Ghana - Legal Frameworks and Emerging Practice (Hardcover): Thomas Kojo Stephens Upstream Oil and Gas in Ghana - Legal Frameworks and Emerging Practice (Hardcover)
Thomas Kojo Stephens
R4,059 Discovery Miles 40 590 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This book explores the myriad issues that play out in the upstream petroleum industry of Ghana from a legal perspective. Focusing on Ghana as an emerging petroleum country, Thomas Kojo Stephens begins by examining whether the existing constitutional framework will be effective in governing the expanding oil and gas sector. Drawing on various approaches proffered by other experts in the field, Stephens looks at possible institutional structures that could be put in place and juxtaposes these ideas with the experience of Ghana to test the efficacy of these proposals. He also explores the types of contractual frameworks currently implemented in Ghana for comparison with other emerging petroleum economies, examining the barriers to effectiveness, novel provisions that must be incorporated and lessons learned from other regions. Finally, the book highlights how vital it is for the Ghanaian State to monitor the use of petroleum revenue and make ethical investment decisions that prioritise the interests of Ghanaian citizens. Upstream Oil and Gas in Ghana will be of great interest to students and scholars of energy law and policy, oil and gas management and African Studies more broadly, as well as those working in the upstream petroleum industry.

Cultural Expertise, Law and Rights - A Comprehensive Guide (Hardcover): Livia Holden Cultural Expertise, Law and Rights - A Comprehensive Guide (Hardcover)
Livia Holden
R4,059 Discovery Miles 40 590 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Cultural Expertise, Law and Rights introduces readers to the theory and practice of cultural expertise in the resolution of conflicts and the claim of rights in diverse societies. Combining theory and case-studies of the use of cultural expertise in real situations, and in a great variety of fields, this is the first book to offer a comprehensive examination of the field of cultural expertise: its intellectual orientations, practical applications, and ethical implications. This book engages an extensive and interdisciplinary variety of topics - ranging from race, language, sexuality, Indigenous rights, and women's rights to immigration and asylum laws, international commercial arbitration, and criminal law. It also offers a truly global perspective covering cultural expertise in Africa, Asia, Australia, Europe, Latin America, Middle East and North America. Finally, the book offers theoretical and practical guidance for the ethical use of cultural expert knowledge. This is an essential volume for teachers and students in the social sciences - especially law, anthropology, and sociology - and members of the legal professions who engage in cross-cultural dispute resolution, asylum and migration, private international law, and other fields of law in which cultural arguments play a role.

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