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This cutting-edge book critically reviews the field of attempted
legal control and regulation of delinquent conduct by business
actors in the form of exploitative, collusive and corrupt
behaviour. It explores key topics including victimhood,
accountability, theories of trading and shared responsibility.
Christopher Harding and Alison Cronin reflect on the attempts that
have been made globally to use criminal law and other methods of
formal legal control, as well as more flexible and innovative
approaches under the heading of 'regulation', to address the
problem of bad business practice. The book argues for a return to
first principles and that the possibility of a reconfiguration of
economic ordering and market and trading culture should be
considered; as business malpractice is largely inherent in the
dominant capitalist model, that model is in need of repurposing and
reform. Taking an interdisciplinary approach, this book will be a
valuable resource for scholars and students of law with a focus on
business, commercial law and criminal law, in addition to
researchers of corporate governance and public administration and
management. Its critical arguments will also benefit NGOs, business
professionals and campaign groups.
From the time of the ancient Greeks onwards the West's relationship
with Asia consisted for the most part in outrageous tales of
monsters and giants, of silk and spices trans-shipped over vast
distances and an uneasy sense of unknowable empires fantastically
far away. By the 20th century much of Asia may have come under
Western rule after centuries of warfare, but its intellectual,
artistic and spiritual influence was fighting back. The Light of
Asia is a wonderfully varied and entertaining history of this
vexed, confused but centrally important relationship. From Marco
Polo onwards Asia has been both a source of genuine fascination and
equally genuine failures of comprehension. China, India and Japan
were all acknowledged to be both great civilizations and in crude
ways superseded by the West. Christopher Harding's captivating
gallery of geniuses, adventurers and con-men celebrates Asia's
impact on the West in all its variety.
Originally published in 1985, Imprisonment in England and Wales is
an account of the changing functions and conditions of imprisonment
in England and Wales from the Medieval period to the present day.
It is designed both as a text for students and teachers of history,
law and social science and as an introduction to the subject for
more general readers and is one of the few attempts to provide an
overall view of the institution of imprisonment in this country
over a period of several centuries. The authors have made use of
original sources and other research to provide an accessible
account of the subject, combining essential factual detail with an
analysis of the use of imprisonment. It is therefore particularly
of interest to those approaching the subject for the first time and
is also intended to provide guidance for further research into
particular areas of the subject. The authors draw upon their
respective knowledge of four main periods to show how imprisonment
has performed a number of different functions: the punishment and
reform of convicted offenders, the coercion of debtors, the custody
of persons awaiting trial and more generally the containment of
society’s undesirables. At the same time, the institution of
imprisonment is put into the context of wider social, political and
economic forces, and related to the development of an increasingly
centralised and incursive system of criminal law, as well as to the
use and disuse of other forms of punishment and legal control. This
discussion is supported by an account of the characteristics of
prisons, the problems of administration and the implementation of
penal and reformative policy.
First published in 1989, Punishment examines the practice of
punishment, not simply as a typical sanction employed by the state
but as a pervasive feature of social organisation in both past and
contemporary societies. With depth and rigour, they consider penal
practice in a variety of historical and cultural contexts, such as
the family, kinship and tribal groupings, small communities,
educational institutions, the workplace and the commercial
environment, criminal organisations, and the wider international
community, as well as that of the state. In this way they widen the
scope of the debate about the use of punishment as an instrument of
human organisation, presenting different perspectives on the
phenomenon of punishment and questioning the boundaries between
different disciplines - juridical, philosophical, sociological,
psychological and historical - within which the subject has been
considered in the past. This book will be of interest to students
and teachers of history, sociology, criminology, law, philosophy
and psychology.
This book looks at the interplay between criminal and other
branches of public law pursuing similar objectives (referred to as
'quasi-criminal law'). The need for clarifying the concepts and the
interlink between criminal and quasi-criminal enforcement is a
topic attracting a lot of discussion and debate both in academia
and practice across Europe (and beyond). This volume adds to this
debate by bringing to light the substantive and procedural problems
stemming from the current parallel or dual use of the different
enforcement systems. The collection draws on expertise from
academia, practice and policy; its high-quality analysis will
appeal to scholars, practitioners and policymakers alike.
The EU now possesses a clear legal basis for taking action on
criminal law matters and steering the policy and practice of Member
States in relation to crime and criminal law. However, for what is
now an important area of law, there remains a striking absence or
uncertainty regarding its theoretical basis, its legitimacy and its
conceptual vocabulary. This book offers a review of the
significance of EU criminal law and crime policy as a rapidly
emerging phenomenon in European law and governance. Bringing
together an international set of contributors, the book questions
the nature, role and objectives of such 'criminal law', its
relationship with other areas of EU policy and law, and the
established rules of criminal law and criminal justice at the
Member State level. Taking up such subjects as the application of
criminal law across national boundaries and in the broader European
context, effective enforcement, and the working out of a new
European policy, the book helps to structure an increasingly
significant subject in law which is still finding its direction.
The book will be of great use and interest to researchers and
students of EU law, criminal justice, and criminology.
Since the late nineteenth century, religious ideas and practices in
Japan have become increasingly intertwined with those associated
with mental health and healing. This relationship developed against
the backdrop of a far broader, and deeply consequential meeting:
between Japan's long-standing, Chinese-influenced intellectual and
institutional forms, and the politics, science, philosophy, and
religion of the post-Enlightenment West. In striving to craft a
modern society and culture that could exist on terms with - rather
than be subsumed by - western power and influence, Japan became
home to a religion--psy dialogue informed by pressing political
priorities and rapidly shifting cultural concerns. This book
provides a historically contextualized introduction to the dialogue
between religion and psychotherapy in modern Japan. In doing so, it
draws out connections between developments in medicine, government
policy, Japanese religion and spirituality, social and cultural
criticism, regional dynamics, and gender relations. The chapters
all focus on the meeting and intermingling of religious with
psychotherapeutic ideas and draw on a wide range of case studies
including: how temple and shrine 'cures' of early modern Japan
fared in the light of German neuropsychiatry; how Japanese Buddhist
theories of mind, body, and self-cultivation negotiated with the
findings of western medicine; how Buddhists, Christians, and other
organizations and groups drew and redrew the lines between
religious praxis and psychological healing; how major European
therapies such as Freud's fed into self-consciously Japanese
analyses of and treatments for the ills of the age; and how
distress, suffering, and individuality came to be reinterpreted
across the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries, from the
southern islands of Okinawa to the devastated northern
neighbourhoods of the Tohoku region after the earthquake, tsunami,
and nuclear disasters of March 2011. Religion and Psychotherapy in
Modern Japan will be welcomed by students and scholars working
across a broad range of subjects, including Japanese culture and
society, religious studies, psychology and psychotherapy, mental
health, and international history.
The ideology of human rights protection has gained considerable
momentum during the second half of the twentieth century at both
national and international level and appears to be an effective
lever for bringing about legal change. This book analyzes this
strategy in economic and commercial policy and considers the
transportation of the 'public law' discourse of basic human rights
protection into the 'commercial law' context of economic policy,
business activity and corporate behaviour. The volume will prove
indispensable for anyone interested in human rights, international
law, and business and commercial law.
The EU now possesses a clear legal basis for taking action on
criminal law matters and steering the policy and practice of Member
States in relation to crime and criminal law. However, for what is
now an important area of law, there remains a striking absence or
uncertainty regarding its theoretical basis, its legitimacy and its
conceptual vocabulary. This book offers a review of the
significance of EU criminal law and crime policy as a rapidly
emerging phenomenon in European law and governance. Bringing
together an international set of contributors, the book questions
the nature, role and objectives of such 'criminal law', its
relationship with other areas of EU policy and law, and the
established rules of criminal law and criminal justice at the
Member State level. Taking up such subjects as the application of
criminal law across national boundaries and in the broader European
context, effective enforcement, and the working out of a new
European policy, the book helps to structure an increasingly
significant subject in law which is still finding its direction.
The book will be of great use and interest to researchers and
students of EU law, criminal justice, and criminology.
Anti-competitive business cartels, engaging in practices such as
price fixing, market sharing, bid rigging and restrictions on
output, are now subject to strong official censure and rigorous
legal control in a large number of jurisdictions across the world.
The longstanding condemnation under the US Sherman Act of 1890 has
been taken up (although in a rather different form) during the last
thirty years in the EC/EU and in European national jurisdictions in
particular, but also in a range of countries outside North America
and Europe. Legal control has not only extended geographically but
has intensified, as a number of jurisdictions have moved beyond
administrative regulation and penalties to embrace enforcement
through civil liability and (most significantly in terms of policy
and rhetoric) the methods of criminal law. It is therefore timely
to consider critically this development of legal control and assess
its achievement to date and its future prospects. But such an
exercise requires an understanding of the reasons and need for such
regulation, based on a clear appreciation of the nature and extent
of the economic and social malaise which is its subject. What, more
exactly, are such business cartels, why do they come into existence
and persist, why are they regarded as being so bad, and what are
the objectives within this increasingly complex and multi-level
phenomenon of legal control? By seeking to answer such fundamental
questions, this book sets a research agenda for a pathology,
aetiology and criminology of business cartels, and probes more
accurately their nature, operation, endurance and perceived
delinquency.
This is a study of agency in the field of criminal liability,
considering the respective roles of individuals and organisations
and the allocation of criminal responsibility to these different
kinds of actor. The issue of criminal responsibility, which is
informed by both the sociological analysis of conduct and by
ethical considerations of responsibility, provides an important and
revealing focus for discussion. Criminal Enterprise analyses
criminal responsibility through three main types of organisation:
corporate actors in the field of business activity, states and
governments, and delinquent or criminal organisations; each of
which is of contemporary significance. This analysis focuses on
three particular issues:
- the theory of individual and corporate (or organisational)
responsibility
- the attribution of legal personality, as a particular form of
identity, in theory and across jurisdictions and legal orders
- the internal practice and operation of complex organisations
and corporate actors and how an understanding of this sociology of
organisations should be used in the construction of legal agency in
the field of criminal law.
This comprehensive volume explores histories and modern reworkings
of the ideas of mind, soul and consciousness in South Asia. It
focuses on the burgeoning 'psy-disciplines' - psychology,
psychiatry, psychotherapy - and their links with religion, science,
philosophy, and modern notions of the mystical and spiritual, not
just in South Asia, but around the world. The authors explore the
global flows of ideas that gathered pace during the late nineteenth
and twentieth centuries, including: the idea(s) of self within
'Hindu modernities'; the history of relativity of consciousness in
Jaina epistemology; Jungian critiques of Cartesian rationalism;
Islamic reform vis-a-vis Sufi mysticism; and the re-examination and
invocations of key strands of the fields of 'Indian philosophy' and
the 'psy-disciplines' in modern India. Together these chapters
stoke a critical engagement with existing conceptual boundaries and
categories of mind, soul, consciousness, and body-mind relationship
in modern Asian and European spiritual and intellectual traditions.
This book will interest scholars and students of cross-cultural
philosophy, intellectual history, history of religion, religious
studies, and history of the mind sciences. It was originally
published as a special issue of the journal South Asian History and
Culture.
Anti-competitive business cartels, engaging in practices such as
price fixing, market sharing, bid rigging and restrictions on
output, are now subject to strong official censure and rigorous
legal control in a large number of jurisdictions across the world.
The longstanding condemnation under the US Sherman Act of 1890 has
been taken up (although in a rather different form) during the last
thirty years in the EC/EU and in European national jurisdictions in
particular, but also in a range of countries outside North America
and Europe. Legal control has not only extended geographically but
has intensified, as a number of jurisdictions have moved beyond
administrative regulation and penalties to embrace enforcement
through civil liability and (most significantly in terms of policy
and rhetoric) the methods of criminal law. It is therefore timely
to consider critically this development of legal control and assess
its achievement to date and its future prospects. But such an
exercise requires an understanding of the reasons and need for such
regulation, based on a clear appreciation of the nature and extent
of the economic and social malaise which is its subject. What, more
exactly, are such business cartels, why do they come into existence
and persist, why are they regarded as being so bad, and what are
the objectives within this increasingly complex and multi-level
phenomenon of legal control? By seeking to answer such fundamental
questions, this book sets a research agenda for a pathology,
aetiology and criminology of business cartels, and probes more
accurately their nature, operation, endurance and perceived
delinquency.
"Lucid and lyrical...a vivid history of Japan's turbocharged (and
painful) modernization." --The Daily Telegraph In A History of
Modern Japan, cultural historian Christopher Harding delves into
the untold stories of Japan's recent history--from a pop star's
nuclear power protest song in 2011, to Japanese feminists who
fought for an equal political voice in the 1890s. Though highly
successful, and typically portrayed as a unified effort, Japan's
rebuilding throughout the 20th century faced a lot of domestic
criticism. This story-led account gives a voice to those who felt
they didn't fit in with what Japan was becoming. It's that push and
pull that made the country what it is today. This book will be a
fascinating read for anyone interested in Japanese culture--whether
film and literature, or pop culture and manga--as big shifts in
Japanese ideology and society tend to come from culture and the
arts, rather than being politically-driven. It will also be of
interest to those traveling to Japan who want a better sense of the
place, or anyone seeking to better understand Japan's role on the
global stage. With over 100 photographs, maps and prints, A History
of Modern Japan showcases the compelling story of Japan's amazing
growth and its resulting struggles. For all the country's
advancement, the Japanese people continue to wrestle with the
notion of what it means to be Japanese in a changing world.
The ideology of human rights protection has gained considerable
momentum during the second half of the twentieth century at both
national and international level and appears to be an effective
lever for bringing about legal change. This book analyzes this
strategy in economic and commercial policy and considers the
transportation of the 'public law' discourse of basic human rights
protection into the 'commercial law' context of economic policy,
business activity and corporate behaviour. The volume will prove
indispensable for anyone interested in human rights, international
law, and business and commercial law.
This is a study of agency in the field of criminal liability,
considering the respective roles of individuals and organisations
and the allocation of criminal responsibility to these different
kinds of actor. The issue of criminal responsibility, which is
informed by both the sociological analysis of conduct and by
ethical considerations of responsibility, provides an important and
revealing focus for discussion. Criminal Enterprise analyses
criminal responsibility through three main types of organisation:
corporate actors in the field of business activity, states and
governments, and delinquent or criminal organisations; each of
which is of contemporary significance. This analysis focuses on
three particular issues: the theory of individual and corporate (or
organisational) responsibility the attribution of legal
personality, as a particular form of identity, in theory and across
jurisdictions and legal orders the internal practice and operation
of complex organisations and corporate actors and how an
understanding of this sociology of organisations should be used in
the construction of legal agency in the field of criminal law.
This comprehensive volume explores histories and modern reworkings
of the ideas of mind, soul and consciousness in South Asia. It
focuses on the burgeoning 'psy-disciplines' - psychology,
psychiatry, psychotherapy - and their links with religion, science,
philosophy, and modern notions of the mystical and spiritual, not
just in South Asia, but around the world. The authors explore the
global flows of ideas that gathered pace during the late nineteenth
and twentieth centuries, including: the idea(s) of self within
'Hindu modernities'; the history of relativity of consciousness in
Jaina epistemology; Jungian critiques of Cartesian rationalism;
Islamic reform vis-a-vis Sufi mysticism; and the re-examination and
invocations of key strands of the fields of 'Indian philosophy' and
the 'psy-disciplines' in modern India. Together these chapters
stoke a critical engagement with existing conceptual boundaries and
categories of mind, soul, consciousness, and body-mind relationship
in modern Asian and European spiritual and intellectual traditions.
This book will interest scholars and students of cross-cultural
philosophy, intellectual history, history of religion, religious
studies, and history of the mind sciences. It was originally
published as a special issue of the journal South Asian History and
Culture.
A SUNDAY TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR 2020 'Mightily impressive ... a
marvellous read' Sunday Times From the acclaimed author of Japan
Story, this is the history of Japan, distilled into the stories of
twenty remarkable individuals. The vivid and entertaining portraits
in Chris Harding's enormously enjoyable new book take the reader
from the earliest written accounts of Japan right through to the
life of the current empress, Masako. We encounter shamans and
warlords, poets and revolutionaries, scientists, artists and
adventurers - each offering insights of their own into this
extraordinary place. For anyone new to Japan, this book is the
ideal introduction. For anyone already deeply involved with it,
this is a book filled with surprises and pleasures.
Since the late nineteenth century, religious ideas and practices in
Japan have become increasingly intertwined with those associated
with mental health and healing. This relationship developed against
the backdrop of a far broader, and deeply consequential meeting:
between Japan's long-standing, Chinese-influenced intellectual and
institutional forms, and the politics, science, philosophy, and
religion of the post-Enlightenment West. In striving to craft a
modern society and culture that could exist on terms with - rather
than be subsumed by - western power and influence, Japan became
home to a religion--psy dialogue informed by pressing political
priorities and rapidly shifting cultural concerns. This book
provides a historically contextualized introduction to the dialogue
between religion and psychotherapy in modern Japan. In doing so, it
draws out connections between developments in medicine, government
policy, Japanese religion and spirituality, social and cultural
criticism, regional dynamics, and gender relations. The chapters
all focus on the meeting and intermingling of religious with
psychotherapeutic ideas and draw on a wide range of case studies
including: how temple and shrine 'cures' of early modern Japan
fared in the light of German neuropsychiatry; how Japanese Buddhist
theories of mind, body, and self-cultivation negotiated with the
findings of western medicine; how Buddhists, Christians, and other
organizations and groups drew and redrew the lines between
religious praxis and psychological healing; how major European
therapies such as Freud's fed into self-consciously Japanese
analyses of and treatments for the ills of the age; and how
distress, suffering, and individuality came to be reinterpreted
across the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries, from the
southern islands of Okinawa to the devastated northern
neighbourhoods of the Tohoku region after the earthquake, tsunami,
and nuclear disasters of March 2011. Religion and Psychotherapy in
Modern Japan will be welcomed by students and scholars working
across a broad range of subjects, including Japanese culture and
society, religious studies, psychology and psychotherapy, mental
health, and international history.
This is a fresh and surprising account of Japan's culture from the
'opening up' of the country in the mid-nineteenth century to the
present. 'How much I admired it, what a lot I learned from it and,
above all, how very much I enjoyed it ... Masterly.' Neil MacGregor
It is told through the eyes of people who greeted this change not
with the confidence and grasping ambition of Japan's modernizers
and nationalists, but with resistance, conflict, distress. We
encounter writers of dramas, ghost stories and crime novels where
modernity itself is the tragedy, the ghoul and the bad guy;
surrealist and avant-garde artists sketching their escape; rebel
kamikaze pilots and the put-upon urban poor; hypnotists and
gangsters; men in desperate search of the eternal feminine and
feminists in search of something more than state-sanctioned
subservience; Buddhists without morals; Marxist terror groups;
couches full to bursting with the psychological fall-out of
breakneck modernization. These people all sprang from the soil of
modern Japan, but their personalities and projects failed to fit.
They were 'dark blossoms': both East-West hybrids and home-grown
varieties that wreathed, probed and sometimes penetrated the new
structures of mainstream Japan.
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Mozart - Six Viennese Sonatinas (Book)
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart; Created by Christopher Harding; Edited by Christopher Harding
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(Schirmer Performance Editions). The engaging yet simple Viennese
sonatinas have been part of standard piano literature since soon
after Mozart's death. This new edition provides helpful, practical
direction for playing in the Classical style and an excellent
recording by the editor. Intermediate Level.
Slightly less offensive than the previous volumes, Percy Gets
Probed and Percy Already Got Probed. Some of these could even be
children's stories, albeit sweary children's stories. As with the
previous volumes, we have here a mixture of fantasy, horror, comedy
and coming-of-age, all told through the the lens of the author's
myopic lazy eye. Praise for Percy Gets Probed Volumes One and Two:
"The words start at the beginning and don't stop until the very end
" "If you like marks on paper then these are the books for you."
"Like no other books I've ever read. And thank goodness for that."
"Percy Gets Probed makes Baby Jesus cry. I mean cry even more than
usual. Jesus was a colicky baby. Not many people know that." "After
the first volume, I didn't think it could possibly get any worse.
But then it did. Please tell me there won't be a third." "Is this
what passes for writing these days?" "I didn't read them so I
should really have no opinion but I hate them anyway." "I love the
smell of fresh ink. I could sniff these books all day "
If you managed to make it through the first volume of short
stories, Percy Gets Probed, and somehow find yourself yearning for
more- perhaps you enjoy self abuse? -then you might be keen on this
second volume, appropriately titled Percy Already Got Probed. Here
you'll find peculiar stories about unpleasant characters you've
probably never seen the likes of before, and may not care to see
the likes of again. There are doomed young lovers, doomed old
lovers, coming of age, coming of rage. Things are rarely as they
seem or first appear. There is comedy, there is drama, there is
horror and there is fantasy. Not for the easily offended. Customer
reviews for the first volume include the following: "Mr. Harding
has burst onto the literary scene with a collection of astonishing
- and, yes, frankly bizarre - stories that are sure to make the
reader sit up and take notice, though the more conservative among
us may sit up and take offense - but who needs them, anyway? He has
a keen ear for naturalistic dialogue and an utterly twisted
imagination, which combined with his own subversive psyche, has
resulted in the birth of, if not a modern classic, then at least an
underground masterstroke. The illustrations are perfect and the
author made an excellent choice in the artist. Roll on, volume the
second " - J.T. "It won't be far into this volume before you
realise that the author doesn't really do taboos No subject, be it
however sexual, scatological or socially awkward, is forbidden here
- in fact, they are the central pillars of many of the tales. So, a
potty-mouthed iconoclast? Well, strangely, no - not at all Chris
Harding manages to counter his disregard with the sensibilities of
the easily offended with... his obvious regard for those very
sensibilities - even going so far, on occasion, as to apologise for
the previous sentence within a tale His choice of language
engenders the feeling in the reader that he is more than a little
embarrassed by the things he is writing but, hey ho, that's just
the way the story goes and I am only the blushing conduit for what
must be told Harding is one of those writers that allows his own
personality to shine through in his writing. Halfway through the
book you will feel that you know him via his characters and their
various neuroses and obsessions. One might almost assume the work
was autobiographical were it not for the thoroughly bizarre plots.
Almost all of the stories in this collection could be described as
fantasy but you can't help but feel that the actions and reactions
of the protagonists are precisely those that the author might make,
were he faced with such an absurd version of reality - in fact, you
would probably assume, as I did, that he actually lives in a world
that is almost as odd and peopled with equally gauche and inept
characters - as do we all most of the time. Above all, the feeling
that I came away with was one of a warm, caring author that was
genuinely upset by many of the things that his creations had to
suffer at his hands. A cracking read." - Xamonas
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