Evil, law and the state : perspectives on state power and violence

Evil, law and the state : perspectives on state power and violence / edited by John T. Parry.

The topic of "evil" means different things depending upon context. For some, it is an archaic term, while others view it as a central problem of ethics, psychology, or politics. Coupled with state power, the problem of evil takes on a special salience for most observers. When governments d...

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Other Authors: Parry, John T., 1964-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Amsterdam ; New York : Rodopi, 2006.
Series:At the interface/probing the boundaries ; v. 24.
Subjects:
State-sponsored terrorism.
Political violence > Government policy.
Political atrocities.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Globalization.
Political atrocities
State-sponsored terrorism
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Table of Contents:
  • Pain, interrogation, and the body : state violence and the law of torture / John T. Parry
  • "Too many foreigners for my taste" : law, race and ethnicity in California, 1848-1852 / Fernando Purcell
  • Protection, harm and social evil : the age of consent, c.1885-c.1940 / Shani D'Cruze
  • Sin, scandal, and disaster : politics and crime in contemporary Turkey / Ruth A. Miller
  • Adding injury to injury : the case of rape and prostitution in Turkey / İştar Göazydın
  • Exception as the norm and the fiction of sovereignty : the lack of the right to health care in the Occupied Territories / Dani Filc and Hadas Ziv
  • Mental health care during apartheid in South Africa : an illustration of how "science" can be abused / Alban Burke
  • Schistosomiasis and capital Marxism / Rui Zhu
  • The inevitable impunity of suicide terrorists / Elena A. Baylis
  • The lessons of Nuremberg and the trial of Saddam Hussein / Douglas J. Sylvester
  • Responsibility for atrocity : individual criminal agency and the International Criminal Court / Kirsten Ainley
  • Humanity and inhumanity : state power and the force of law in the prescription of juridical norms / Roberto Buonamano
  • New balance, evil, and the scales of justice / Vincent Luizzi
  • The execution as sacrifice / Jody Lyneé Madeira
  • Legitimacy and violence : on the relation between law and justice according to Rawls and Derrida / Bram Ieven.

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