Terrorism On Trial

Author : Beatrice de Graaf,Alex Peter Schmid
Publisher : Leiden University Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Law
ISBN : 9087282400

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Terrorists on Trial by Beatrice de Graaf,Alex Peter Schmid Pdf

Terrorists on Trial offers an unexpected--and productive--new perspective on terrorism trials, viewing them as a form of theater, in which the "show" that a trial offers can develop its own unexpected dynamics, aspects that occasionally inconvenience the prosecuting government and interfere with its aims. As a political construct, the crime of terrorism is an essentially contested act, and interpreting trials through this lens enables us to see their performative aspects more clearly than ever. With close analyses of trials in the United States, Spain, Russia, Germany, and the Netherlands, Terrorists on Trial breaks new ground for our understanding of a crucial contemporary problem.

Author : Nicole Nguyen
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
Page : 513 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2023-09-26
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781452969794

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Terrorism on Trial by Nicole Nguyen Pdf

A landmark sociological examination of terrorism prosecution in United States courts Rather than functioning as a final arbiter of justice, U.S. domestic courts are increasingly seen as counterterrorism tools that can incapacitate terrorists, maintain national security operations domestically, and produce certain narratives of conflict. Terrorism on Trial examines the contemporary role that these courts play in the global war on terror and their use as a weapon of war: hunting, criminalizing, and punishing entire communities in the name of national security. Nicole Nguyen advocates for a rethinking of popular understandings of political violence and its root causes, encouraging readers to consider anti-imperial abolitionist alternatives to the criminalization, prosecution, and incarceration of individuals marked as real or perceived terrorists. She exposes how dominant academic discourses, geographical imaginations, and social processes have shaped terrorism prosecutions, as well as how our fundamental misunderstanding of terrorism has led to punitive responses that do little to address the true sources of violence, such as military interventions, colonial occupations, and tyrannical regimes. Nguyen also explores how these criminal proceedings bear on the lives of defendants and families, seeking to understand how legal processes unevenly criminalize and disempower communities of color. A retheorization of terrorism as political violence, Terrorism on Trial invites readers to carefully consider the role of power and politics in the making of armed resistance, addressing the root causes of political violence, with a goal of building toward a less violent and more liberatory world.

Author : Beatrice de Graaf,Alex Peter Schmid
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Law
ISBN : 9087283288

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Terrorists on Trial by Beatrice de Graaf,Alex Peter Schmid Pdf

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. Seeing terrorism trials as a stage where legal instruments are used (and abused) to argue the validity of contested political constructs, this study presents a performative perspective to draw attention to the mechanisms and effects of terrorism trials in and outside the courtroom. With a special focus on how the power of these performances may in turn shape new narratives of justice and/or injustice, it offers vital insights into terrorism trials directed involving different types of terrorism suspects, from left-wing to ethno-nationalist and jihadist terrorists, in Spain, Russia, Germany, the Netherlands, and the US.

Author : Mark S. Hamm
Publisher : DIANE Publishing
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781437929591

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Crimes Committed by Terrorist Groups by Mark S. Hamm Pdf

This is a print on demand edition of a hard to find publication. Examines terrorists¿ involvement in a variety of crimes ranging from motor vehicle violations, immigration fraud, and mfg. illegal firearms to counterfeiting, armed bank robbery, and smuggling weapons of mass destruction. There are 3 parts: (1) Compares the criminality of internat. jihad groups with domestic right-wing groups. (2) Six case studies of crimes includes trial transcripts, official reports, previous scholarship, and interviews with law enforce. officials and former terrorists are used to explore skills that made crimes possible; or events and lack of skill that the prevented crimes. Includes brief bio. of the terrorists along with descriptions of their org., strategies, and plots. (3) Analysis of the themes in closing arguments of the transcripts in Part 2. Illus.

Author : Mayur R. Suresh
Publisher : Fordham Univ Press
Page : 173 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2023-01-17
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781531501785

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Terror Trials by Mayur R. Suresh Pdf

An ethnography of terrorism trials in Delhi, India, this book explores what modes of life are made possible in the everyday experience of the courtroom. Mayur Suresh shows how legal procedures and technicalities become the modes through which courtrooms are made habitable. Where India’s terror trials have come to be understood by way of the expansion of the security state and displays of Hindu nationalism, Suresh elaborates how they are experienced by defendants in a quite different way, through a minute engagement with legal technicalities. Amidst the grinding terror trials—which are replete with stories of torture, illegal detention and fabricated charges—defendants school themselves in legal procedures, became adept petition writers, build friendships with police officials, cultivate cautious faith in the courts and express a deep sense of betrayal when this trust is belied. Though seemingly mundane, legal technicalities are fraught and highly contested, and acquire urgent ethical qualities in the life of a trial: the file becomes a space in which the world can be made or unmade, the petition a way of imagining a future, and investigative and courtroom procedures enable the unexpected formation of close relationships between police and terror-accused. In attending to the ways in which legal technicalities are made to work in everyday interactions among lawyers, judges, accused terrorists, and police, Suresh shows how human expressiveness, creativity and vulnerability emerge through the law.

Author : Jean Sénat Fleury
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2019-03-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9781796020311

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The Trial of Osama Bin Laden by Jean Sénat Fleury Pdf

Judge, teacher, and writer Jean Sénat Fleury grew up in Saint-Marc, Haiti. He has been a trainer at the National Police Academy (1995–1996) and director of studies at the magistracy school in Pétion-Ville (2000–2004). He is the author of the books Jean-Jacques Dessalines: Words Beyond the Grave, Toussaint Louverture: The Trial of the Slave Trafficking, and Adolf Hitler: Trial in Absentia in Nuremberg. Mr. Fleury immigrated to Boston in the United States in 2007. He obtained a master’s degree in public administration and another degree in political science at Suffolk University. In 2014, he became director of the Caribbean Arts Gallery and a charitable organization called Art-For-Change. His latest book, The Trial of Osama bin Laden, is a narrative with historical facts, of course, but written in a novelistic style. This book is a book of information and training, a reference book that should be read as an educational tool on the attacks of September 11, 2001, while allowing a better understanding of the thought and philosophy of the leader of al-Qaeda. Through the play of fiction, the author hides behind the New York prosecutor to present the elements of the prosecution and asks the court to convict bin Laden, FBI one of the most wanted terrorists.

Author : Jonathan Hafetz
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 203 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2018-04-19
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781107094550

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Punishing Atrocities Through a Fair Trial by Jonathan Hafetz Pdf

Punishing Atrocities through a Fair Trial examines the tension between punishing mass atrocity and ensuring a fair trial for defendants.

Author : Michael Nesbitt,Kent Roach,David C. Hofmann
Publisher : Manitoba Law Journal
Page : 509 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2021-07-13
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9798536810941

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Manitoba Law Journal Volume 44 Issue 1 (Special Issue) by Michael Nesbitt,Kent Roach,David C. Hofmann Pdf

The Manitoba Law Journal (MLJ) is a peer-reviewed journal founded in 1961. The MLJ's current mission is to provide lively, independent and high calibre commentary on legal events in Manitoba or events of special interest to our community.The MLJ aims to bring diverse and multidisciplinary perspectives to the issues it studies, drawing on authors from Manitoba, Canada and beyond. Its studies are intended to contribute to understanding and reform not only in our community, but around the world. As part of our commitment to you, our team is pleased to announce the release of Canada’s premier publication on “Project Osage,” an inter-agency security operation that executed the largest terrorism-related sting in Canadian history. Canadian Terror: Multi-Disciplinary Perspectives on the Toronto 18 Terrorism Trials engages a multidisciplinary perspective that unites criminological, legal, and security analyses to consider the processes, as well as the shortcomings, involved in investigating and prosecuting terrorism in Canada. We are honoured that Canadian Terror is edited and co-authored by prominent Canadian academics

Author : T. Messer-Kruse
Publisher : Springer
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2011-08-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9780230339293

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The Trial of the Haymarket Anarchists by T. Messer-Kruse Pdf

The Trial of the Haymarket Anarchists is the culmination of seven years of research into the 1886 Haymarket bombing and subsequent trial. It not only overturns the prevailing consensus on this event, it documents in detail how the basic facts, as far as they can be determined, have been distorted, obscured, or suppressed for seventy years.

Author : Nicholas A. Ferraro
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 161728713X

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Legal and Trial Issues Stemming from the War on Terror by Nicholas A. Ferraro Pdf

Author : Wadie E. Said
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2015-04-08
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780190234164

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Crimes of Terror by Wadie E. Said Pdf

The U.S. government's power to categorize individuals as terrorist suspects and therefore ineligible for certain long-standing constitutional protections has expanded exponentially since 9/11, all the while remaining resistant to oversight. Crimes of Terror: The Legal and Political Implications of Federal Terrorism Prosecutions provides a comprehensive and uniquely up-to-date dissection of the government's advantages over suspects in criminal prosecutions of terrorism, which are driven by a preventive mindset that purports to stop plots before they can come to fruition. It establishes the background for these controversial policies and practices and then demonstrates how they have impeded the normal goals of criminal prosecution, even in light of a competing military tribunal model. Proceeding in a linear manner from the investigatory stage of a prosecution on through to sentencing, the book documents the emergence of a "terrorist exceptionalism" to normal rules of criminal law and procedure and questions whether the government has overstated the threat posed by the individuals it charges with these crimes. Included is a discussion of the large-scale spying and use of informants rooted in the questionable "radicalization" theory; the material support statute--the government's chief legal tool in bringing criminal prosecutions; the new rules regarding generation of evidence and the broad construction of that evidence as relevant at trial; and a look at the special sentencing and confinement regimes for those convicted of terrorist crimes. In this critical examination of terrorism prosecutions in federal court, Professor Said reveals a phenomenon at odds with basic constitutional protections for criminal defendants.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1885
Category : Law
ISBN : UCAL:B4001700

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The Manitoba Law Journal by Anonim Pdf

Author : Sebastian Brett
Publisher : Human Rights Watch
Page : 65 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Human rights
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Chile, Undue Process by Sebastian Brett Pdf

Author : Richard B. Zabel,James J. Benjamin,Human Rights First (Organization)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Law
ISBN : UOM:39015082713127

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In Pursuit of Justice by Richard B. Zabel,James J. Benjamin,Human Rights First (Organization) Pdf

In recent years, there has been much controversy about the proper forum in which to prosecute and punish suspected terrorists. Some have endorsed aggressive use of military commissions; others have proposed an entirely new "national security court." However, as the nation strives for a vigorous and effective response to terrorism, we should not lose sight of the important tools that are already at our disposal, nor should we forget the costs and risks of seeking to break new ground by departing from established institutions and practices. As this White Paper shows, the existing criminal justice system has proved successful at handling a large number of important and challenging terrorism prosecutions over the past fifteen years-without sacrificing national security interests, rigorous standards of fairness and due process, or just punishment for those guilty of terrorism-related crimes.

Author : David M. Haugen,Susan Musser
Publisher : Greenhaven Publishing
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Young Adult Nonfiction
ISBN : 0737739827

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Terrorism by David M. Haugen,Susan Musser Pdf

Contentious issues such as the death penalty, civil liberties, and reproductive rights touch on people's deeply held beliefs. Greenhaven Press's Issues on Trial series captures the passion and depth of those debates, examining how the courts have helped to shape each issue through their rulings. Each volume focuses on a specific issue and includes primary sources like the text of court rulings and dissenting opinions, as well as secondary sources such as analyses and views of the rulings. Offering both historical and contemporary material, each Issues on Trial volume offers a wealth of information on issues currently confronting society. Book jacket.