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The formerly established medically-based idea of disability, with its charity-based approach to treatment and services, is being replaced by a human rights-based approach in which people with impairments are no longer considered medical problems, totally dependent on the beneficence of non-impaired people in society,...

This book places the current wave of religion-based terrorism in a historical perspective, explaining why religion is associated with terrorism, comparing religion-based terrorism to other forms of terrorism, and documenting how religion-based terrorism is a product of powerful political, socioeconomic, and psychological forces. Religion-based...

This work is the first interdisciplinary compilation of entries related to the crime victim to encompass the breadth of the 70-year-old discipline of victimology. The Praeger Handbook of Victimology is the first full-scale reference to encompass the full scope of the discipline of victim...

This is the first comprehensive bibliography that deals with comparative criminology and other signficant works in the field dating from the 1960s. The guide covers 500 studies on crime, law, and social control in two or more cultures. The volume is organized into three...

This is the first and only comprehensive bibliography of American judicial proceedings before 1801. It lists the exact title of everything that was printed before 1801, except in newspapers, about actual judicial proceedings within the 1801 territorial boundaries of the United States. It also...

This book introduces the reader to the critical issues, important trends, theories, and various subdisciplines in the current manifestation of radical and critical criminology and criminal justice, including postmodernism, left realism, feminism, and peacemaking. Since its articulation in the 1960s, radical and critical criminology...

Author: Karen SacksISBN-10: 0252010043ISBN-13: 9780252010040Publisher: University of Illinois PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 11/01/1982Pages: 288Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.70lbsSize: 7.99h x 5.51w x 0.62d

Karl N. Llewellyn was one of the founders and major figures of legal realism, and his many keen insights have a central place in American law and legal understanding. Key to Llewellyn's thinking was his conception of rules, put forward in his numerous writings...

Consider this court case: a defendant has traded a gun for drugs, and there is a criminal sentencing provision that stipulates an enhanced punishment if the defendant "uses" a firearm "during and in relation to a drug trafficking crime." Buying the drugs was obviously...

Alexis de Tocqueville was among the first to draw attention to Americans' propensity to form voluntary associations--and to join them with a fervor and frequency unmatched anywhere in the world. For nearly two centuries, we have sought to understand how and why early nineteenth-century...

The National Institutes of Health and the National Science Foundation together fund more than $40 billon of research annually in the United States and around the globe. These large public expenditures come with strings, including a complex set of laws and guidelines that regulate...

In 1989 the late Prof Michael Beesley and Prof David Hensher convened a workshop of an invitational group of academics, transport operators and government regulators to review and report on the recent reforms in the British bus sector. The workshop was held in Thredbo,...

This book aims to provide an introductory glance at the Australian legal system through a detailed analysis of criminal, contract, tort, equity, and administrative law. This is coupled with evaluation of the constitutional underpinnings, upon which, the overlying framework is built. The work may...

This book is available for free on my Academia and ResearchGate profiles. The book argues that the U.S. and other major nation-states of the world must abolish nuclear weapons urgently. Rather than becoming bogged down in deterrence theory and diplomacy--either of which have worked...

What is Democracy?What is Dictatorship?And, why is Democracy superior over Dictatorship? Why will Individuals defend a Democracy even in its darkest hour, but Individuals living in a Dictatorship will abandon the fight?The nature of Democracy - and that of Dictatorship - depends on the...

Provides a comprehensive analysis of macroeconomic issues in developing Asia, including economic growth projections and prospects by country and region. This year's theme chapter explores how to strengthen disaster resilience.Author: Asian Development BankISBN-10: 9292615602ISBN-13: 9789292615604Publisher: Asian Development BankLanguage: EnglishPublished: 07/30/2019Pages: 380Format: PaperbackWeight: 2.67lbsSize: 11.00h...

"Terrorism trials are an exceptional opportunity for better understanding and, hence, countering terrorism, since they are often the only place where most if not all of the actors of a terrorist incident meet again, and where the media report and broadcast their respective accounts....

This book offers an interdisciplinary and in-depth analysis of the relationship between intercultural dialogue and multi-level governance, seen from a human rights-based perspective. It brings together papers that were originally presented at international workshops organised by the Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence of the...

A criminal investigation encompasses the totality of police powers, measures, and activities undertaken when there is a premise for suspecting that a crime or misdemeanor is being arranged or committed, or when there is a suspicion that a certain phenomenon threatens or appears to...

The past three decades has been a period of intense and sustained debate about the wisdom of police continuing to rigorously apply laws that prohibit the use, possession and cultivation of cannabis. Given a large number of young adults have been exposed to the...

Translators, law students or legal professionals who begin to deal with legal language face a bewildering variety of legal writings. Even though legal language has been examined from a multitude of perspectives, there are virtually no studies explicitly addressing variation in legal English in...

The legal argumentation of constitutional courts, for instance on human dignity, has been in the centre of interest both from theoretical and practical perspectives. This book addresses the role of legal argumentation at first in general, covering empirical and comparative perspectives on constitutional argumentative...

Once considered a stepchild of social theory, legal criticism has recently received a great deal of attention, perpetuating what has always been an ambivalent relationship. On the one hand, law is praised for being a cultural achievement, on the other, it is criticized for...

The focus of this book is on the government of prisoners with mental health problems in England and Wales over the last twenty-five years. The wider context and backdrop to the book is the shift to 'late modernity', which, since the 1970s has seen...

There are more than 400 Commonwealth law schools, all having an entry within the latest edition of The Directory of Commonwealth Law Schools. Each entry includes full contact details, courses offered, law journals published and research centres. This edition has been thoroughly revised, updated...

Utilising literature as a serious source of challenges to questions in philosophy and law, this book provides a fresh perspective not only upon the inculcation of the legal subject, but also upon the relationship between modernism, postmodernism and how such concepts might evolve in...

This challenging book on jurisprudence begins by posing questions in the post-modern context, and then seeks to bridge the gap between our traditions and contemporary situation.It offers a narrative encompassing the birth of western philosophy in the Greeks and moves through medieval Christendom, Hobbes,...

Giving the reader an in-depth understanding of DNA evidence in criminal practice, this text explains in clear language how DNA evidence is obtained and how it can be successfully challenged in court to minimize its impact or even dismiss it completely. Since it first...

Cavendish lawcards are complete pocket sized guides to the key examinable areas of law. Their concise text, user-friendly layout and compact format makes them the ideal revision aid for identifying, understanding and memorizing the vital aspects of each area of law. Important features of...

This key text brings together a team of leading contributors to address the complex issues of security reconciliation and reconstruction in post conflict societies. Security, Reconstruction and Reconciliation is organized into four main sections: the social, political, and economic dimensions of conflict the impact...

To make a place is to create a location where its creators can feel they belong. Processes of place-making are still very much ongoing today. Geographers, sociologists, political scientists and philosophers of advanced capitalism have said that place is a localisation of the global....

Critiquing many areas of medical practice and research whilst making constructive suggestions about medical education, this book extends the scope of medical ethics beyond sole concern with regulation.Illustrating some humanistic ways of understanding patients, this volume explores the connections between medical ethics, healthcare and...

International Registration of Industrial Designs - Hague Agreement Implementation (US Patent and Trademark Office Regulation) (PTO) (2018 Edition) The Law Library presents the complete text of the International Registration of Industrial Designs - Hague Agreement Implementation (US Patent and Trademark Office Regulation) (PTO) (2018...

Proximity Detection Systems for Continuous Mining Machines in Underground Coal Mines (US Mine Safety and Health Administration Regulation) (MSHA) (2018 Edition) The Law Library presents the complete text of the Proximity Detection Systems for Continuous Mining Machines in Underground Coal Mines (US Mine Safety...

State Highway-Rail Grade Crossing Action Plans (US Federal Railroad Administration Regulation) (FRA) (2018 Edition) The Law Library presents the complete text of the State Highway-Rail Grade Crossing Action Plans (US Federal Railroad Administration Regulation) (FRA) (2018 Edition). Updated as of May 29, 2018 This...

Child Nutrition Programs - Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act - Nondiscretionary Amendments (US Food and Nutrition Service Regulation) (FNS) (2018 Edition) The Law Library presents the complete text of the Child Nutrition Programs - Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act - Nondiscretionary Amendments (US Food and Nutrition...

Procedures for Abatement of Highway Traffic Noise and Construction Noise (US Federal Highway Administration Regulation) (FHWA) (2018 Edition) The Law Library presents the complete text of the Procedures for Abatement of Highway Traffic Noise and Construction Noise (US Federal Highway Administration Regulation) (FHWA) (2018...

Regulation of Fuels and Fuel Additives - Modifications to Renewable Fuel Standard Program (US Environmental Protection Agency Regulation) (EPA) (2018 Edition) The Law Library presents the complete text of the Regulation of Fuels and Fuel Additives - Modifications to Renewable Fuel Standard Program (US...

2007-03-07 Energy Efficiency Program for Certain Commercial and Industrial Equipment - Efficiency Standards for Commercial Heating, Air-Conditioning (US Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy Office Regulation) (EERE) (2018 Edition) The Law Library presents the complete text of the 2007-03-07 Energy Efficiency Program for Certain Commercial...

Disposal of Controlled Substances (US Drug Enforcement Administration Regulation) (DEA) (2018 Edition) The Law Library presents the complete text of the Disposal of Controlled Substances (US Drug Enforcement Administration Regulation) (DEA) (2018 Edition). Updated as of May 29, 2018 This rule governs the secure...

An Address to the People of England: Being the Protest of a Private Person Against Every Suspension of Law That Is Liable to Injure or Endanger Personal Security (Classic Reprint) by Granville Sharp Excerpt from An Address to the People of England: Being the...

International Tax Agreements Act 1953 (Australia) (2018 Edition) The Law Library presents the complete text of the International Tax Agreements Act 1953 (Australia) (2018 Edition). Updated as of May 15, 2018 This book contains: - The complete text of the International Tax Agreements Act...

Christmas Island Act 1958 (Australia) (2018 Edition) The Law Library presents the complete text of the Christmas Island Act 1958 (Australia) (2018 Edition). Updated as of May 15, 2018 This book contains: - The complete text of the Christmas Island Act 1958 (Australia) (2018...

Examines what happens to the targets of Strategic Lawsuits Against Public Participation (SLAPPs) and what is happening to public participation in American politics. This book offers solutions for preventing, managing, and curing SLAPPs at various levels of government.Author: George PringISBN-10: 1566393698ISBN-13: 9781566393690Publisher: Temple University...

This eighth volume in the series on research in organizational change and development deals with such topics as practitioner attitudes to the field of organizational development and the effects of union status on employee involvement.Author: Richard W. WoodmanISBN-10: 1559388714ISBN-13: 9781559388719Publisher: Jai Press Inc.Language: EnglishPublished:...

This manual is designed to assist the graduating law student to successfully apply to the State Bar of Michigan. It covers the application process, the affidavit of personal history, and the process and procedure should your application require more formal procedures. This manual is...

As things stand, a commitment to weak democracy and strong constitutionalism ensures that a range of elite groups, actors, and institutions - political, economic, intellectual, and legal - hold considerable sway over constitutional matters, leaving less room for the participation of ordinary people. With...

Also Serving Time informs readers about the realities of provincial and territorial prison work in Canada. Exploring the nuances of the job, Rosemary Ricciardelli shows how officer orientations and attitudes toward prisoners are interconnected and foundational in shaping their own experiences as well as...

Niklas Luhmann wrote a number of works which have decisively shaped the recent development of legal science as a theoretical discipline. Some basic elements of his theory have been widely appropriated by other legal theorists, such that it is difficult to imagine contemporary reflection...

In the mid-1980s, the Abella Commission on Equality in Employment and the federal Employment Equity Act made Canada a policy leader in addressing systemic discrimination in the workplace. More than twenty-five years later, Employment Equity in Canada assembles a distinguished group of experts to...