Evil, law and the state
Subtitle: perspectives on state power and violence
By: edited by John T. Parry.
Contributors: Parry, John T., 1964-
Series: At the interface/probing the boundaries -- v. 24.
Publisher: Rodopi
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Amsterdam; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 213
Subjects: State-sponsored terrorism; Political violence -- Government policy; Political atrocities
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Pain, interrogation, and the body : state violence and the law of torture / John T. Parry; title: "Too many foreigners for my taste" : law, race and ethnicity in California, 1848-1852 / Fernando Purcell; title: Protection, harm and social evil : the age of consent, c.1885-c.1940 / Shani D'Cruze; title: Sin, scandal, and disaster : politics and crime in contemporary Turkey / Ruth A. Miller; title: Adding injury to injury : the case of rape and prostitution in Turkey / İştar Göazydın; title: 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; title: Mental health care during apartheid in South Africa : an illustration of how "science" can be abused / Alban Burke; title: Schistosomiasis and capital Marxism / Rui Zhu; title: The inevitable impunity of suicide terrorists / Elena A. Baylis; title: The lessons of Nuremberg and the trial of Saddam Hussein / Douglas J. Sylvester; title: Responsibility for atrocity : individual criminal agency and the International Criminal Court / Kirsten Ainley; title: Humanity and inhumanity : state power and the force of law in the prescription of juridical norms / Roberto Buonamano; title: New balance, evil, and the scales of justice / Vincent Luizzi; title: The execution as sacrifice / Jody Lyneé Madeira; title: Legitimacy and violence : on the relation between law and justice according to Rawls and Derrida / Bram Ieven.