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Youth crime and juvenile justice - Barry Goldson and John Muncie
Call Number: Law Ref KN 176 .Y68 2009
ISBN/ISSN: 1847870643
This three-volume set of original readings is designed to reveal how and why children and young people have been repeatedly the subject of adult concern, censure, and intervention. It conceptualizes notions of ‘childhood’, ‘youth’, and ‘adolescence’ while also tracing the complex history of adult intervention and juvenile justice. In the 21st century discourses of protection, restoration, punishment, responsibility, rehabilitation, welfare, retribution, diversion, human rights, and so on exist alongside each other in a perpetually uneasy and contradictory manner. Youth Crime and Juvenile Justice provides a lens through which to navigate this complex field.
The legacy of Nuremberg : civilising influence or institutionalised vengeance? - edited by David A. Blumenthal, Timothy L.H. McCormack
Call Number: Law KC 217.L44 2008
ISBN/ISSN: 9004156917
In this new collection of essays, the editors assess the legacy of the Nuremberg Trial asking whether the Trial really did have a civilising influence or if it constituted little more than institutionalised vengeance.
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Conflict of norms in public international law : how WTO law relates to other rules of international law - Joost Pauwelyn
ISBN/ISSN: 052110047X
How do trade agreements interact with agreements on human rights or the environment? In case of conflict, which agreement should prevail? Must trade disputes be examined only from the angle of trade rules or should account be taken also of non-trade values? Joost Pauwelyn considers these questions and reveals how the different rules of international law interact, with the aid of procedural guidelines when conflict occurs. This book interests trade diplomats, international civil servants, lawyers, NGOs and scholars of public international law and international trade law.
Waging Humanitarian War: the Ethics, Law, and Politics of Humanitarian Intervention - Eric A. Heinze
ISBN/ISSN: 0791476952
How severe must human suffering be before military intervention is considered? Can there be commensurate legal grounding for such an argument? Which actors are the most appropriate agents of intervention? In this reasonable and straightforward approach to the perplexing issue of humanitarian intervention, Eric A. Heinze incorporates insights from various strands of ethical, legal, and international relations theory. He identifies the conditions under which humanitarian intervention is morally permissible, establishes the extent to which such an ethical argument can be grounded in international law, and determines which actors are best equipped to undertake this task under prevailing political conditions. Heinze presents the reader with a number of empirical examples, including the 1999 Kosovo intervention, the 2003 Iraq war, and the ongoing humanitarian crisis in Darfur, Sudan. The result is a more theoretically consistent--and therefore more practically workable--approach to humanitarian intervention.
Legitimacy in international society - Ian Clark
ISBN/ISSN: 0199219192
Policy makers and publics alike regularly debate the legitimacy of international events, such as the war on terror, or war in Iraq. But what exactly does legitimacy mean in an international setting? This major new work provides the first historically and theoretically grounded analysis of this critical issue in contemporary society. Drawing on both historical and recent events, Clark provides a lucid demonstration of how legitimacy is a highly political condition, related in complex ways to consensus, other values, and balances of power.
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