Bücher der Reihe Law, Justice and Power

Examining the relationship between law and social change in the context of employees' problems with sexual harassment, this book elaborates a framework for studying the role of law in everyday acts of resistance. Following the stages of a dispute, it then examines the way that people use frames to make sense of their experiences.

Presents an anthropological perspective on the hidden continuities between corruption and law. This book argues that the two opposites, corruption and law, are inextricably linked - with the possibility of the former already inscribed into the latter. It is suitable for students, researchers and policy-makers working in this area.

Argues that prisoners converting to Islam seek an alternative form of redemption, one that poses a powerful epistemological as well as ideological challenge to American penology. This study makes an argument for the objective examination of the rehabilitative potentials of faith-based organizations in prisons.

Presents a cultural history of the global commons: those domains, including the atmosphere, the oceans, the radio frequency spectrum, the earth's biodiversity, and its outer space, designated by international law as belonging to no single individual or nation state but rather to all humankind.

The Logic of Consent analyzes the varied nature of consent arguments in criminal law and examines the confusions that commonly arise from the failure of legislatures, courts and commentators to understand them.

Brings together scholars on the death penalty within international, regional and municipal law. This title considers the intrinsic elements of both the promotion and demise of the punishment around the world, and provides analysis which contributes to the abolitionist discourse.

Historically the death penalty was mandatory for the crime of murder and other violent felonies, in accordance with English common law. Over the last three decades many former British colonies have reformed their capital punishment regimes to permit judicial sentencing discretion, including consideration of mitigating factors.