Civil Rights category: 2079 books
Victims in the War on Crime
The Use and Abuse of Victims' Rights
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2006
Two phenomena have shaped American criminal law for the past thirty years: the war on crime and the victims' rights movement. As incapacitation has replaced rehabilitation as the dominant ideology of punishment, reflecting a shift from an identification with defendants to an identification with victims,...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2017
Since its inception in 1998 the Human Rights Act (HRA) has come in for a wide variety of criticism on legal, constitutional, political and cultural grounds. More recently, this criticism escalated significantly as politicians have seriously considered proposals for its abolition. This book examines...
Civil Societies and Social Movements
Potentials and Problems
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2007
This volume examines and contributes to debates surrounding social capital, social movements and the role of civil society in emerging forms of governance.
The authors adopt a broad range of research approaches, from testing hypotheses drawn from rationale choice theory against available statistics...
Normative Pluralism and Human Rights
Social Normativities in Conflict
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2018
The complex legal situations arising from the coexistence of international law, state law, and social and religious norms in different parts of the world often include scenarios of conflict between them. These conflicting norms issued from different categories of ‘laws’ result in difficulties...
Human Rights, Constitutional Law and Belonging
The Right to Equal Belonging in a Democratic Society
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2018
While every constitution includes a provision over the right to equal protection of the laws, perhaps with different terminology, this book interprets this right in a new way. Theories of the right to equal protection of the laws as the right to anti-subordination are the most influential theories...
Freedom of Artistic Expression
Essays on Culture and Legal Censure
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2014
This book presents a unique and comprehensive examination of the human and moral rights of artists. In what is arguably the first exhaustive book-length account of artists' rights, Paul Kearns explores the problems associated with censorship, both from philosophical and legal perspectives, and focuses...
by Kerry O'Halloran
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2018
In this book Kerry O’Halloran analyses a subject of international interest – religion – and examines related contemporary issues from a human rights perspective. The book takes the view that while the impact of Islamic State violence has dramatically demonstrated the destructive power of religious...
American Presidents, Deportations, and Human Rights Violations
From Carter to Trump
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2018
Of the many issues polarizing societies today, immigration is one of the most contentious. In the United States, as in Europe, immigration was a defining issue in recent national elections. Immigration not only involves government policies but also the human rights of millions of people. American...
Civil Disobedience & Other Essays - Premium Collection: 26 Political, Philosophical & Historical Essays
Slavery in Massachusetts, Life Without Principle, The Landlord, Walking, Sir Walter Raleigh, Paradise (to be) Regained, Herald of Freedom, A Plea for Captain John Brown, The Highland Light, Dark Ages…
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2017
This carefully crafted ebook: "Civil Disobedience & Other Essays - Premium Collection: 26 Political, Philosophical & Historical Essays" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents: Introduction: Thoreau by Ralph Waldo Emerson Essays: Civil Disobedience...
by Henry David Thoreau
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2016
First published in 1849, “On the Duty of Civil Disobedience” is an essay by American transcendentalist Henry David Thoreau. Within it, he presents the argument that people should not allow governments to supplant their consciences, and that everyone has an important duty to avoid being pawns for...
by Ramón Herrera de las Heras
Language: Spanish
Release Date: January 1, 2017
Language: Spanish
Release Date: January 1, 2017
¿Vale todo en las redes sociales? Esta monografía realiza un análisis crítico sobre la responsabilidad civil cuando se produce la vulneración del derecho al honor. ¿Existen particularidades en este ámbito? La monografía comienza con un estudio del derecho al honor así como su protección...
The Law is (Not) for Kids
A Legal Rights Guide for Canadian Children and Teens
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2019
In this practical guide to the law for young people of Canada, Ned Lecic and Marvin Zuker provide an all-encompassing manual meant to empower and educate children and youth and those that serve them. The authors address questions about how rights and laws affect the lives of young people at home,...
Stonewall
The Definitive Story of the LGBT Rights Uprising that Changed America
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2019
The definitive account of the Stonewall Riots, the first gay rights march, and the LGBTQ activists at the center of the movement.
“Martin Duberman is a national treasure.”—Masha Gessen, The New Yorker
On June 28, 1969, the Stonewall Inn, a gay bar in New York's Greenwich Village,...
A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
Penguin Classics
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2004
Writing in an age when the call for the rights of man had brought revolution to America and France, Mary Wollstonecraft produced her own declaration of female independence in 1792. Passionate and forthright, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman attacked the prevailing view of docile, decorative femininity,...