Criminal Legalities In The Global South

Author : George B. Radics,Pablo Ciocchini
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 303 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2023-01-24
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783031179181

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Criminal Legalities and Minorities in the Global South by George B. Radics,Pablo Ciocchini Pdf

This book explores how the law and the institutions of the criminal justice system expose minorities to different types of violence, either directly, through discrimination and harassment, or indirectly, by creating the conditions that make them vulnerable to violence from other groups of society. It draws on empirical insights across a broad array of communities and locales including Afghanistan, Colombia, Pakistan, India, Malawi, Turkey, Brazil, Singapore, Puerto Rico, and the Philippines. It examines the challenges of protecting those at the margins of power, especially those whom the law is often used to oppress. The chapters explore intersecting, marginal identities influenced by four factors: rebuilding after violent regimes, economic interest behind the violence, entrenched cultural biases, and criminalisation of diversity. It provides scholars from the Global North with important lessons when attempting to impose their own solutions onto nations with a different history and context, or when applying their own laws to migrants from the Global South nations explored in this book. It speaks to legal and social science scholars in the fields of law, sociology, criminology, and social work.

Author : Pablo Ciocchini,George Radics
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 211 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2019-08-22
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780429861680

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Criminal Legalities in the Global South by Pablo Ciocchini,George Radics Pdf

This edited volume presents the work of academics from the Global South and explores, from local and regional settings, how the legal order and people’s perceptions of it translates into an understanding of what constitutes "criminal" behaviors or activities. This book aims to address the gap between criminal law in theory and practice in the Global South by assembling 11 chapters from established and emerging scholars from various underrepresented regions of the world. Drawing on research from Singapore, the Philippines, Peru, Indonesia, India, the Dominican Republic, Burma, Brazil, Bangladesh, and Argentina, this book explores a range of issues that straddle the line between social deviance and legal crimes in such societies, including extramarital affairs, gender-based violence, gambling, LGBT issues, and corruption. Issues of inclusivity versus exclusivity, modernity versus tradition, globalization of capital versus cultural revivalism are explored. The contributions critically analyze the role politics and institutions play in shaping these issues. There is an urgent need for empirical studies and new theoretical approaches that can capture the complexity of crime phenomena that occur in the Global South. This book will provide essential material to facilitate the development of new approaches more suitable to understanding the social phenomena related to crime in these societies. This book will make an important contribution in the development of Southern criminology. It will be of interest to students and researchers of criminology and sociology engaged in studies of sentencing and punishment, theories of crime, law and practice, and postcolonialism.

Author : Nergis Canefe
Publisher : University of Wales Press
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2021-04-15
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781786837035

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Crimes Against Humanity by Nergis Canefe Pdf

This volume considers how, based on the examination of cases pertaining to transitional justice settings that resort to local interpretations of crimes against humanity jurisprudence, fragmentation of international law and circumscribed applications of universal jurisdiction are necessary aspects of the grand enterprise to overcome the impasse of the tainted legacy of international criminal law in the Global South. If we are to proceed with adjudication of the most egregious and heinous crimes involving state criminality without facing the charge of neo-colonialist plotting, then we must reckon with localised and domesticated interpretations of international criminal law, rather than pursuing strict forms of legislative dictation of international criminal law.

Author : Philipp Dann,Michael Riegner,Maxim Bönnemann
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2020-10-29
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780198850403

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The Global South and Comparative Constitutional Law by Philipp Dann,Michael Riegner,Maxim Bönnemann Pdf

Although the Global South represents 'most of the world' in terms of constitutions and population, it is underrepresented in comparative constitutional discourse. This book fills the gap in this scholarship by tackling the most important aspects of comparative law from the Southern perspective.

Author : Valsamis Mitsilegas,Peter Alldridge,Leonidas Cheliotis
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2015-01-22
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781782252726

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Globalisation, Criminal Law and Criminal Justice by Valsamis Mitsilegas,Peter Alldridge,Leonidas Cheliotis Pdf

The book consists of the keynote papers delivered at the 2012 WG Hart Workshop on Globalisation, Criminal Law and Criminal Justice organised by the Queen Mary Criminal Justice Centre. The volume addresses, from a cross-disciplinary perspective, the multifarious relationship between globalisation on the one hand, and criminal law and justice on the other hand. At a time when economic, political and cultural systems across different jurisdictions are increasingly becoming or are perceived to be parts of a coherent global whole, it appears that the study of crime and criminal justice policies and practices can no longer be restricted within the boundaries of individual nation-states or even particular transnational regions. But in which specific fields, to what extent, and in what ways does globalisation influence crime and criminal justice in disparate jurisdictions? Which are the factors that facilitate or prevent such influence at a domestic and/or regional level? And how does or should scholarly inquiry explore these themes? These are all key questions which are addressed by the contributors to the volume. In addition to contributions focusing on theoretical and comparative dimensions of globalisation in criminal law and justice, the volume includes sections focusing on the role of evidence in the development of criminal justice policy, the development of European criminal law and its relationship with national and transnational legal orders, and the influence of globalisation on the interplay between criminal and administrative law.

Author : Raul Zaffaroni,Cristina Caamaño,Valeria Vegh Weis
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 163 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2023-02-27
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789004535152

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Lawfare: The Criminalization of Democratic Politics in the Global South by Raul Zaffaroni,Cristina Caamaño,Valeria Vegh Weis Pdf

In The Criminalization of Democratic Politics in the Global South, Zaffaroni, Caamaño and Vegh Weis offer an account of the misuse of the law to criminalize progressive political leaders in Latin America.

Author : Richard J. Goldstone
Publisher : Torkel Opsahl Academic EPublisher
Page : 23 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2011-09-27
Category : Law
ISBN : 9788293081388

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South-East Asia and International Criminal Law by Richard J. Goldstone Pdf

Author : Emma Charlene Lubaale,Ntombizozuko Dyani-Mhango
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 652 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2022-02-07
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783030880446

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National Accountability for International Crimes in Africa by Emma Charlene Lubaale,Ntombizozuko Dyani-Mhango Pdf

This book critically examines the issues pertaining to the Rome Statute’s complementarity principle. The focus lies on the primacy of African states to prosecute alleged perpetrators of international crimes in their respective jurisdictions. The chapters explore states’ international and domestic obligations to hold perpetrators of international crimes to account before the national courts, and demonstrate the complexity of enforcing national accountability of alleged perpetrators of international crimes while also ensuring that post-conflict African states achieve national healing, reconciliation, and sustainable peace. The contributions reject impunity for international crimes whilst also considering these complexities. Emphasis further lies on the meaning of accountability in the context of the politics of selective international criminal justice for crimes committed before the establishment of the International Criminal Court.

Author : Emily Haslam
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 197 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2024-02-22
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781509973743

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The Subjects and Subjectivities of International Criminal Law by Emily Haslam Pdf

This book provides a critical introduction to the core elements of international criminal law. It does so by provoking thought on what international criminal law is, or could be, by contrasting the practice of widely recognised state-based actors and institutions such as the International Criminal Court with practices associated with non-state actors in particular citizens' tribunals. International criminal law is now established as an essential legal and institutional response to atrocity. However, it faces a series of political and practical challenges. It is vital to consider its limits and potential, as well as the ways and extent to which those limitations might be addressed. Many actors with very different visions of its nature and parameters play a role in shaping the meaning of international criminal law whether that be in official or unofficial spaces. This book explores the principles and institutions of international criminal law alongside the alternative visions of it put forward by citizens' tribunals. In so doing it encourages reflection on that law's multiple meanings and usages in order to provoke consideration of what it means, and might mean, to deploy international criminal law today.

Author : David R. Goyes
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2023-06-24
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783031277542

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Green Crime in the Global South by David R. Goyes Pdf

This book presents a socio-criminological study of environmental crime in the global South. It gathers contributors from all the regions of the geographical global South (Africa, Asia, Oceania, and Latin America) to discuss instances of environmental crime and conflict. Overall, it seeks to further decolonise the knowledge production of green criminology. It considers the legacy of colonisation, North-South and the core-periphery divides in the production of environmental crime, the epistemological contributions of the marginalised, impoverished, and oppressed, and the unique contexts of the global South. This book has three sections: drivers of green crime in the global South; responses to environmental harm in the global South; and global dialogues about crime and destruction in the global South. The first two sections represent the breadth of the topics that green criminologists have historically studied but from unique perspectives. The third section explores ethical and decolonial ways for Southern green criminology to collaborate with Western academia. This book speaks to scholars in criminology, political ecology, decolonial theory, along with the many readers interested in the interactions between humans and nature.

Author : Gerhard Werle,Lovell Fernandez,Moritz Vormbaum
Publisher : Springer
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2014-09-09
Category : Law
ISBN : 9789462650299

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Africa and the International Criminal Court by Gerhard Werle,Lovell Fernandez,Moritz Vormbaum Pdf

The book deals with the controversial relationship between African states, represented by the African Union, and the International Criminal Court. This relationship started promisingly but has been in crisis in recent years. The overarching aim of the book is to analyze and discuss the achievements and shortcomings of interventions in Africa by the International Criminal Court as well as to develop proposals for cooperation between international courts, domestic courts outside Africa and courts within Africa. For this purpose, the book compiles contributions by practitioners of the International Criminal Court and by role players of the judiciary of African countries as well as by academic experts.

Author : Kerry Carrington,Russell Hogg,John Scott,Máximo Sozzo,Reece Walters
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2018-10-08
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781351761482

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Southern Criminology by Kerry Carrington,Russell Hogg,John Scott,Máximo Sozzo,Reece Walters Pdf

Criminology has focused mainly on problems of crime and violence in the large population centres of the Global North to the exclusion of the global countryside, peripheries and antipodes. Southern criminology is an innovative new approach that seeks to correct this bias. This book turns the origin stories of criminology, which simply assumed a global universality, on their head. It draws on a range of case studies to illustrate this point: tracing criminology’s long fascination with dangerous masculinities back to Lombroso’s theory of atavism, itself based on an orientalist interpretation of men of colour from the Global South; uncovering criminology’s colonial legacy, perhaps best exemplified by the over-representation of Indigenous peoples in settler societies drawn into the criminal justice system; analysing the ways in which the sociology of punishment literature has also been based on Northern theories, which assume that forms of penalty roll out from the Global North to the rest of the world; and making the case that the harmful effects of eco-crimes and global warming are impacting more significantly on the Global South. The book also explores how the coloniality of gender shapes patterns of violence in the Global South. Southern criminology is not a new sub-discipline within criminology, but rather a journey toward cognitive justice. It promotes a perspective that aims to invent methods and concepts that bridge global divides and enhance the democratisation of knowledge, more befitting of global criminology in the twenty-first century.

Author : Christine Schwöbel-Patel
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 331 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2021-05-06
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781108482752

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Marketing Global Justice by Christine Schwöbel-Patel Pdf

A political economy analysis that explains international criminal law's hegemonic status in the understanding of global justice.

Author : David Luban,Julie R. O'Sullivan,David P. Stewart,Neha Jain
Publisher : Aspen Publishing
Page : 1288 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2023-09
Category : Criminal jurisdiction
ISBN : 9781543847093

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International and Transnational Criminal Law by David Luban,Julie R. O'Sullivan,David P. Stewart,Neha Jain Pdf

"Casebook on international and transnational criminal law"--

Author : Gerhard Werle,Florian Jeßberger
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 721 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780198826859

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Principles of International Criminal Law by Gerhard Werle,Florian Jeßberger Pdf

Principles of International Criminal Law is one of the leading textbooks in the field of international criminal justice. This fourth edition retains the detailed and systematic approach of previous editions, whist adding substantial new material on new theories, laws, and prosecutions.