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State Crime and Civil Activism explores the work of non-government
organisations (NGOs) challenging state violence and corruption in
six countries - Colombia, Tunisia, Kenya, Turkey, Myanmar and Papua
New Guinea. It discusses the motives and methods of activists, and
how they document and criticise wrongdoing by governments. It
documents the dialectical process by which repression stimulates
and shapes the forces of resistance against it. Drawing on over 350
interviews with activists, this book discusses their motives; the
tactics they use to withstand and challenge repression; and the
legal and other norms they draw upon to challenge the state,
including various forms of law and religious teaching. It analyses
the relation between political activism and charitable work, and
the often ambivalent views of civil society organisations towards
violence. It highlights struggles over land as one of the key areas
of state and corporate crime and civil resistance. The interviews
illustrate and enrich the theoretical premise that civil society
plays a vital part in defining, documenting and denouncing state
crime. They show the diverse and vibrant forms that civil society
takes in a widely varied group of countries. This book will be of
much interest to undergraduate and postgraduate social science
students studying criminology, international relations, political
science, anthropology and development studies. It will also be of
interest to human rights defenders, NGOs and civil society.
The looting of antiquities happens routinely and many countries
have rich deposits of cultural material. The list of source
countries is long, but the most high profile cases of looting have
been in Egypt, Italy, Peru, Mexico, Greece, Turkey, and China.
Antiquities are highly collectable, and there are several prominent
international centers for trade - most notably London, New York,
Paris, Brussels, Hong Kong, Geneva, and Bangkok - but the market
operates across national borders. It is within the complex
international and local regulatory context that the essays
presented here emerge, focusing upon three areas in particular: the
demand for looted antiquities, the supply of cultural artifacts
which originate in source countries, and regulation of the
international market in antiquities. Criminology has long been
interested in transnational crime and its regulation, while
archaeology has been interested in the pedagogical consequences of
antiquities looting. In these essays, both disciplines present new
data and analysis to forge a more coherent understanding of the
nature and failings of the regulatory framework currently in place
to combat the criminal market in antiquities. The book examines the
state of regulation in the antiquities market, with a particular
focus on the UK's position, but also with reference to the
international context more generally. It is an invaluable guide
which gives advice on combating the trade in illicit antiquities
and will be of interest to criminologists, policy makers, and
regulators. (Series: Onati International Series in Law and Society)
Criminal Policy in Transition comes along at a time when the
literature in criminology is desperately short of "global"
perspectives. It helps fill that gap while it presents important
new insights into changing penal policy and practice. That it
raises as many questions as it seems to answer is one of its great
strengths. The authors write knowledgeably about their home
societies without being prematurely bounded by comparative
criteria. As a result,they develop a complex and uneven image of
similarities and differences, of divergence and convergence through
time. In this sense the collection offers a model of how
international collaborative work should proceed. The book is the
product of a workshop held at the International Institute for the
Sociology of Law (IISL) in Onati, Spain. The IISL is a partnership
between the Research Committee on the Sociology of Law and the
Basque Government
State Crime and Civil Activism explores the work of non-government
organisations (NGOs) challenging state violence and corruption in
six countries - Colombia, Tunisia, Kenya, Turkey, Myanmar and Papua
New Guinea. It discusses the motives and methods of activists, and
how they document and criticise wrongdoing by governments. It
documents the dialectical process by which repression stimulates
and shapes the forces of resistance against it. Drawing on over 350
interviews with activists, this book discusses their motives; the
tactics they use to withstand and challenge repression; and the
legal and other norms they draw upon to challenge the state,
including various forms of law and religious teaching. It analyses
the relation between political activism and charitable work, and
the often ambivalent views of civil society organisations towards
violence. It highlights struggles over land as one of the key areas
of state and corporate crime and civil resistance. The interviews
illustrate and enrich the theoretical premise that civil society
plays a vital part in defining, documenting and denouncing state
crime. They show the diverse and vibrant forms that civil society
takes in a widely varied group of countries. This book will be of
much interest to undergraduate and postgraduate social science
students studying criminology, international relations, political
science, anthropology and development studies. It will also be of
interest to human rights defenders, NGOs and civil society.
What is state crime? This book sets out the parameters of state
crime and highlights the complex issues involved. The authors
provide a clear chapter-by -chapter assessment of state violence,
corruption, state involvement in organised and corporate crime,
avoidable 'natural' disasters, torture, criminal policing, war
crimes and genocide.Penny Green and Tony Ward put forward a
powerful argument drawing from a range of disciplines including
law, criminology, human rights, international relations and
political science. They develop a theoretical approach to
understanding the boundaries of state crime, employing the concepts
of deviance and human rights. Making distinctive use of original
research and using a variety of international case-studies, this
compelling book offers a fresh and sophisticated approach to this
controversial and difficult subject.
Law and Outsiders is a collection of essays examining cutting edge
developments in law. Thirteen essays from leading young scholars
cover five important areas of legal scholarship: adjudication,
European law and politics, migration, vulnerable minorities, and
legal values. The recurring theme in the volume is the way in which
rules and processes are contributing to the creation of 21st
Century 'others' in areas such as domestic constitutional systems,
international security and migration, and global human rights
discourses. The essays are drawn from the second International
Graduate Legal Research Conference, held at King's College, London
in June 2008.
Criminal Policy in Transition comes along at a time when the
literature in criminology is desperately short of "global"
perspectives. It helps fill that gap while it presents important
new insights into changing penal policy and practice. That it
raises as many questions as it seems to answer is one of its great
strengths. The authors write knowledgeably about their home
societies without being prematurely bounded by comparative
criteria. As a result,they develop a complex and uneven image of
similarities and differences, of divergence and convergence through
time. In this sense the collection offers a model of how
international collaborative work should proceed. The book is the
product of a workshop held at the International Institute for the
Sociology of Law (IISL) in Onati, Spain. The IISL is a partnership
between the Research Committee on the Sociology of Law and the
Basque Government
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