This book is a reflection on the nature of confinement, experienced by some people as everyday life. It explores the meanings, purposes, and consequences involved with spending every day inside prison. Female Imprisonment results from an ethnographic study carried out in a small prison facility located in the south of Portugal, and Frois uses the data to analyze how incarcerated women talk abou…
This book offers a comparison of the differences between the ‘public’ and ‘private’ spheres, and questions the need for law enforcement to intrude upon both. Beginning with the origins of the concept of privacy, before addressing more current thinking, the authors examine the notion of privacy and policing, using both direct (e.g. 'stop and search' methods) and technological intervent…
This comprehensive volume analyzes dual markets for regulated substances and services, and aims to provide a framework for their effective regulation. A “dual market” refers to the existence of both a legal and an illegal market for a regulated product or service (for example, prescription drugs). These regulations exist in various countries for a mix of public health, historical, politica…
Chapter 1. The Hidden Corner of the Prison -- Chapter 2. An Adjudicative Framework: Morality and the Punishments Clause -- Chapter 3. The Eighth Amendment’s Evolution -- Chapter 4. National Consensus by State Counting -- Chapter 5. Proportionate Penology -- Chapter 6. Transnational Law -- Chapter 7. Professional Consensus.This book examines American solitary confinement – in which around 10…
Introduction -- Part I: Evolution of UN Sanctions Policies -- Sanctions Reinvented -- Creating the UN Security Council & its Sanctions System -- Designing and Applying Chapter VII of the UN Charter -- Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) -- Part II: Smarter Sanctions Against Asymmetric Threats -- From Comprehensive to Smart and Fairer Sanctions -- Backlash Against the Backlash -- UN Sanctions Measures --…
1. Introduction -- PART I. SOCIOLOGICAL ANALYSES OF THE THEFT OF NATURE -- 2. The Environmental Damages and Liabilities of Collective Suicide -- 3. The Archipelago of Chiloé and the Uncertain Contours of its Future -- 4. Understanding Environmental Harm and Justice Claims in the Global South -- 5. Mining in Colombia -- PART II. THE TAKE OVER OF LAND AND THE PLUNDERING OF ITS PRODUCTS -- 6. Glo…
This book offers a comparative exploration of how journalists across different newsrooms around the world access and interpret statistics when producing stories related to crime. Looking at the nature of news sources regularly used by journalists, Lugo-Ocando analyses how these numbers are used to report crime. As the author argues, far from being straightforward, the relationship between num…
Introduction: The International Criminal Court – Old Wine in a New Bottle? -- The Historical Concepts of Colonialism and Neo-colonialism -- Introduction Part I -- European Colonialism and Neo-colonialism -- Legal Colonialism by European States -- Imposition of Laws and Western Values in the Field of International Criminal Law -- Introduction Part II -- The Universalisation of Western Values s…
Section 1: The Offenders’ Perspective on Crime Prevention.- Section 2: Crime Script Analysis -- Section 3: Crime Mapping and Spatial Analysis -- Section 4: Social Network Analysis.- Section 5. Agent-Based Modelling.- Section 6: Crime-Proofing Legislations.- Section 7: Technologies.This volume brings together a series of original contributions made by international experts dedicated to gui…
1. The Problem of Judicial Independence -- 2. Judicial Independence in Malaysia -- 3. Judicial Independence in Pakistan -- 4. Conclusion.This book examines the legal principle of judicial independence in comparative perspective with the goal of advancing a better understanding of the idea of an independent judiciary more generally. From an initial survey of judicial systems in different countri…