Taking The Law Into Their Own Hands

Author : Bruce Baker
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2017-03-02
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781351896382

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Taking the Law into their Own Hands by Bruce Baker Pdf

Over much of Africa, crime and insurgency are a serious problem and one in which the distinction between the two is being eroded. Left without state protection people have sought to preserve their lives and property through vigilante groups and militias that pay scant attention to the law or human rights. Likewise, the state security forces, under pressure to cut crime and rebel activity, readily discard lawful procedures. Torture provides them with vital information, whilst extra-judicial executions save the need to go through the prolonged criminal justice system. After a general overview of the role of the rule of law in a democratic society, Bruce Baker provides five case studies that capture the current complex realities and their impact on the new democracies. The citizen responses considered are vigilantes in East African pastoral economies, The Bakassi Boys an anti-crime group in Nigeria and private policing initiatives in South Africa. The state responses are those of the Ugandan Defence Forces towards the Lords Resistance Army, the Senegalese army towards the Casamance secessionists and the Mozambique Police response towards criminals.

Author : Roxanne Lynn Doty
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2009-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0816527709

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The Law Into Their Own Hands by Roxanne Lynn Doty Pdf

Border security and illegal immigration along the U.S.–Mexico border are hotly debated issues in contemporary society. The emergence of civilian vigilante groups, such as the Minutemen, at the border is the most recent social phenomenon to contribute new controversy to the discussion. The Law Into Their Own Hands looks at the contemporary nativist, anti-immigrant movement in the United States today. Doty examines the social and political contexts that have enabled these civilian groups to flourish and gain legitimacy amongst policy makers and the public. The sentiments underlying the vigilante movement both draw upon and are channeled through a diverse range of organizations whose messages are often reinforced by the media. Taking action when they believe official policy is lacking, groups ranging from elements of the religious right to anti-immigrant groups to white supremacists have created a social movement. Doty seeks to alert us to the consequences related to this growing movement and to the restructuring of our society. She maintains that with immigrants being considered as enemies and denied basic human rights, it is irresponsible of both citizens and policy makers to treat this complicated issue as a simple black or white reality. In this solid and theoretically grounded look at contemporary, post-9/11 border vigilantism, the author observes the dangerous and unproductive manner in which private citizens seek to draw firm and uncompromising lines between who is worthy of inclusion in our society and who is not.

Author : Bruce Baker
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2016-11-10
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1138277800

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Taking the Law Into Their Own Hands by Bruce Baker Pdf

Over much of Africa, crime and insurgency are a serious problem and one in which the distinction between the two is being eroded. Left without state protection people have sought to preserve their lives and property through vigilante groups and militias that pay scant attention to the law or human rights. Likewise, the state security forces, under pressure to cut crime and rebel activity, readily discard lawful procedures. Torture provides them with vital information, whilst extra-judicial executions save the need to go through the prolonged criminal justice system. After a general overview of the role of the rule of law in a democratic society, Bruce Baker provides five case studies that capture the current complex realities and their impact on the new democracies. The citizen responses considered are vigilantes in East African pastoral economies, The Bakassi Boys an anti-crime group in Nigeria and private policing initiatives in South Africa. The state responses are those of the Ugandan Defence Forces towards the Lords Resistance Army, the Senegalese army towards the Casamance secessionists and the Mozambique Police response towards criminals.

Author : United States. Congress Senate
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 2800 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1940
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UOM:35112104251881

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Hearings by United States. Congress Senate Pdf

Author : Ruth N. Sandberg
Publisher : University Press of America
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0761821651

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Development and Discontinuity in Jewish Law by Ruth N. Sandberg Pdf

Sandberg (rabbinics, Gratz College), ordained by the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College, analyzes two divergent paths that Jewish law took as it proceeded from classical to medieval rabbinic sources in regard to such mitzvot (commandments/ good deed) as obeying Prophets, preserving trees, and corporeal punishment. Tables summarize the continuity/discontinuity development process of halakhic rulings on each mitzvah discussed. Indexed by biblical and rabbinic reference as well as subject. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Author : Emanuel B. Quint,Neil S. Hecht
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2023-08-11
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781000963786

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Jewish Jurisprudence by Emanuel B. Quint,Neil S. Hecht Pdf

First published in 1986, Jewish Jurisprudence is the second volume of an important series analysing and setting forth the substantive principles of Jewish jurisprudence. It encompasses the applicable sources of Jewish law from the original transmission to Moses on Sinai of the terse written law and its accompanying oral elaboration through its development to the present day. Each topic concludes with the authors’ view of the present status of the law. In former years, the public teaching and discussion of law occupied a prominent place in Jewish culture. Today, estrangement from the language of Halacha has made it less accessible to the general public. This series is an attempt to open the world of Jewish law to the layperson, general scholars and specialists in jurisprudence.

Author : John Gardner
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780198818755

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From Personal Life to Private Law by John Gardner Pdf

"This book ... is a descendant of my eponymous Quain Lectures, delivered at University College London in 2014"--Preface.

Author : H. Gould
Publisher : Springer
Page : 201 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2010-09-27
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780230113077

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The Legacy of Punishment in International Law by H. Gould Pdf

This book explores the evolution of international punishment from a natural law-based ground for the use of force and conquest to a series of jurisdictional and disciplinary practices in international law not previously seen as being conceptually related.

Author : United States. Congress
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1398 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1965
Category : Law
ISBN : IND:30000126169618

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Congressional Record by United States. Congress Pdf

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Education and Labor
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 2082 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1967
Category : Educational law and legislation
ISBN : UCAL:B4437660

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Hearings, Reports, Public Laws by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Education and Labor Pdf

Author : United States. Congress Senate
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1580 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2024-06-26
Category : United States
ISBN : UOM:35112102270883

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Report by United States. Congress Senate Pdf

Author : Péter Nádas
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Page : 592 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2023-11-21
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780374715342

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Shimmering Details, Volume I by Péter Nádas Pdf

The magnum opus of one of Europe's greatest living writers. “Instead of a chronicle, a person tends to manufacture legends when he relates the story of his life for others,” Péter Nádas writes in his fiction masterpiece, Parallel Stories. Now, in his illuminating memoir, Shimmering Details, the renowned author investigates what it means to reconstruct a life without recourse to the techniques and embellishments of traditional storytelling. Taking his firmly imbedded memories—the “shimmering details” that give this work its title—as his starting point, Nádas dissects them using a method inspired by Freudian dream interpretation. Sounds, scenes, smells, feelings—all are probed for details that might allow him to reconstruct what happened, and when and where. In order to avoid conscious or unconscious distortions, he deconstructs the stories of others, too—moving in concentric circles toward cause and effect, until their meaning and significance come to light. In Shimmering Details, Volume I, Nádas probes the history of his family from the late 19th century to his birth in 1942 and beyond. In a work that encompasses World War II and the Hungarian Revolution, Nádas traces the hidden connections between the seemingly random events of a life and assembles them into a memoir like no other.

Author : Gary Provost
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Victims of crimes
ISBN : OCLC:868017931

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Into Their Own Hands by Gary Provost Pdf

They are battered women, grieving parents, and burglarized homeowners who responded to criminal violence by taking the law into their own hands. Their cases have struck a deep chord in American society. Are they victims of a failing judicial system or criminals themselves? Gary Provost examines stories of ordinary citizens who have taken on the roles of judge, jury and--sometimes--executioner

Author : Yuri Dolgopolov
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 406 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2016-02-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780786459957

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A Dictionary of Confusable Phrases by Yuri Dolgopolov Pdf

Covering over 10,000 idioms and collocations characterized by similarity in their wording or metaphorical idea which do not show corresponding similarity in their meanings, this dictionary presents a unique cross-section of the English language. Though it is designed specifically to assist readers in avoiding the use of inappropriate or erroneous phrases, the book can also be used as a regular phraseological dictionary providing definitions to individual idioms, cliches, and set expressions. Most phrases included in the dictionary are in active current use, making information about their meanings and usage essential to language learners at all levels of proficiency.

Author : Gary Provost
Publisher : Crossroad Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2015-12-17
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Shocking True Stories of Citizens Who Took the Law Into Their Own Hands by Gary Provost Pdf

AN EYE FOR AN EYE They are battered women, grieving parents, and burglarized homeowners who responded to criminal violence by taking the law into their own hands. Their cases have struck a deep chord in American society. Are they victims of a failing judicial system or criminals themselves? True crime writer Gary Provost examines the stories of ordinary citizens who have taken on the roles of judge, jury and — sometimes — executioner. Are their acts a higher form of justice...or merely revenge? You decide: * Bernhard Goetz, who shot four teenagers when they approached him on a subway train and demanded money * The young man who gunned down his own friend for killing his teenaged sister in a drunk-driving accident * The mother who risked her life to track down and apprehend her daughter's rapist * "Grambo," the Dallas grandmother who held a burglar at gunpoint for forty-five minutes while waiting for the police * The battered wife who hired a hit man to murder her husband after seventeen years of abuse Fascinating, penetrating, and chilling, Into Their Own Hands is a controversial and thought-provoking look at what's wrong with crime and punishment in America today and what happens when victims don't just get mad — they get even.