Author: Alan William ClarkePublisher: UPNE
ISBN: 9781555536824
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
A study of the increasing international opposition to and growing domestic disaffection from the death penalty in America
The Bitter Fruit of American Justice
Author: Alan William ClarkePublisher: UPNE
ISBN: 9781555536824
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
A study of the increasing international opposition to and growing domestic disaffection from the death penalty in America
Bitter Fruit
Author: Stephen SchlesingerPublisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674260074
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 362
Book Description
Bitter Fruit is a comprehensive and insightful account of the CIA operation to overthrow the democratically elected government of Jacobo Arbenz of Guatemala in 1954. First published in 1982, this book has become a classic, a textbook case of the relationship between the United States and the Third World. The authors make extensive use of U.S. government documents and interviews with former CIA and other officials. It is a warning of what happens when the United States abuses its power.
North American Genocides
Author: Laurelyn WhittPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 110842550X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 267
Book Description
Argues that North American settler colonialism included episodes of genocide of Indigenous peoples as defined by the United Nations Genocide Convention.
Fundamentals of Criminal Justice: A Sociological View
Author: Steven E. BarkanPublisher: Jones & Bartlett Publishers
ISBN: 1449636012
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 623
Book Description
The criminal justice system is a key social institution pertinent to the lives of citizens everywhere. Fundamentals of Criminal Justice: A Sociological View, Second Edition provides a unique social context to explore and explain the nature, impact, and significance of the criminal justice system in everyday life. This introductory text examines important sociological issues including class, race, and gender inequality, social control, and organizational structure and function.
An American Dilemma
Author: M. AtwellPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 1137270373
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 189
Book Description
An American Dilemma examines the issue of capital punishment in the United States as it conflicts with the nation's obligations under the 1963 Vienna Convention on Consular Relations. In a number of high profile cases, foreign nationals have been executed after being denied their rights under the Vienna Convention. The International Court of Justice has ruled against the United States, but individual states have chosen to defy international law. The Supreme Court has not resolved the question of legal remedies for such breaches.
Bitter Fruit
Author: Keith Gordon FordPublisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN: 1666703494
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 274
Book Description
No church founder or planter likely intends to start a church with the stated goal of allowing abuse or abusing those within it. Yet sadly and too often, even in the best of churches abuse does occur. The bitter fruit of abuse does not appear from nowhere. Its origins, the soil in which it grows, and the structures that support it need be understood if we are to eradicate this fruit from within our churches and Christian organizations. Bitter Fruit: Dysfunction and Abuse in the Local Church describes those psychologies, social psychologies, and inadequate theologies that are frequently true in churches that enable abuse, regardless of the form the abuse may take. It is vital that you understand these things if you are a pastor, leader, or lay person seeking to maintain a healthy church environment.
Foreigners on America's Death Rows
Author: John QuigleyPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 110864225X
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 303
Book Description
Capital cases involving foreigners as defendants are a serious source of contention between the United States and foreign governments. By treaty, foreigner defendants must be informed upon arrest that they may contact a consul of their home country for assistance, yet police and judges in the United States are lax in complying. Foreigners on America's Death Row investigates the arbitrary way United States police departments, courts, and the Department of State implement well-established rights of foreigners arrested in the US. Foreign governments have taken the United States into international courts, which have ruled that the US must enforce the treaty. The United States has ignored these rulings. As a result, foreigners continue to be executed after a legal process that their home governments justifiably find to be flawed. When one country ignores the treaty rights of another as well as the decisions of international courts, the established order of international relations is threatened.
Controversies in American Federalism and Public Policy
Author: Christopher P. BanksPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351713388
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 371
Book Description
This interdisciplinary collection presents a scholarly treatment of how the constitutional politics of federalism affect governments and citizens, offering an accessible yet comprehensive analysis of the U.S. Supreme Court’s federalism jurisprudence and its effect on the development of national and state policies in key areas of constitutional jurisprudence. The contributors address the impact that Supreme Court federalism precedents have in setting the parameters of national law and policies that the states are often bound to respect under constitutional law, including those that relate to the scope and application of gun rights, LGBT freedoms, health care administration, anti-terrorism initiatives, capital punishment, immigration and environmental regulation, the legalization of marijuana and voting rights. Uniting scholarship in law, political science, criminology, and public administration, the chapters study the themes, principles, and politics that traditionally have been at the center of federalism research across different academic disciplines. They look at the origins, nature and effect of dual and cooperative federalism, presidential powers and administrative regulation, state sovereignty and states’ rights, judicial federalism and the advocacy of organized interests.
Laws and Societies in Global Contexts
Author: Eve Darian-SmithPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521113784
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 433
Book Description
This text promotes a more global sociolegal perspective that engages with multiple laws and societies and diverse sociolegal systems based on very different historical and cultural traditions, interacting on multiple local, national, and global levels. The approach to global legal pluralism seeks to provide a framework for envisioning new global governance regimes that move beyond state-based solutions to deal with trenchant transnational challenges.
The Inter-American Court of Human Rights
Author: Laurence Burgorgue-LarsenPublisher: OUP UK
ISBN: 0199588783
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 948
Book Description
This book provides a reference guide to the case law of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights. Structured in two parts, it covers the case law on jurisdiction and procedure before the Court and the case law on the scope of particular rights, drawing comparisons with the case law of the European Court of Human Rights.