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America’s drug laws have always exerted an unequal and unfair toll on Blacks and Latinos, who are arrested more often than Whites for the possession of illegal drugs and given harsher sentences. In this volume, contributors ask how would marijuana legalization affect communities of color? Is...
To Be Published August 18th 2013 by Routledge
Historiography, Empire and the Rule of Law considers the intersection of these terms in the historical development of what has come to be known as the ‘rule of law’. The separation of governmental powers, checks and balances, and judicial independence signified something entirely new in the way in...
To Be Published August 19th 2013 by Routledge
Set against the backdrop of the recurring waves of financial scandal and crisis to hit Canada, the US, the UK, and Europe over the last decade, this book examines the struggles of securities enforcement agencies to police the financial markets. While allegations of regulatory failure in this realm...
To Be Published August 19th 2013 by Routledge
Series: Transitional Justice
Corporate Accountability in the Context of Transitional Justice explores how corporations can be held accountable for their role in past human rights violations when a country is making a transition from conflict or repression to peace and democracy. It breaks new ground in theorizing the linkages...
To Be Published August 21st 2013 by Routledge
Series: Routledge Advances in European Politics
This book considers whether the democratic promise of 1989 lost out to a technocratic, judicial control of politics in the new democracies of Central and Eastern Europe. It explores the complexities and drawbacks of modern constitutionalism by offering a comprehensive theoretical and...
To Be Published August 27th 2013 by Routledge
Series: Routledge Research in Human Rights
This book provides the first detailed reconstruction and assessment of the EU’s responses to human rights violations in China from 1995 to the present day. It provides new insights into the EU’s internal debate on the merits of its quiet human rights diplomacy and, where relevant, also compares the...
To Be Published August 29th 2013 by Routledge
Britain’s Hidden Role in the Rwandan Genocide examines the role of the United Kingdom as a global elite bystander to the crime of genocide, and its complicity - in violation of international criminal laws - in the Rwandan genocide of 1994. As prevailing accounts confine themselves to the role and...
To Be Published August 31st 2013 by Routledge
Series: Law, Development and Globalization
Policing and Human Rights analyses the implementation of human rights standards, tracing them from the nodal points of their production in Geneva, through the board rooms of national police management and training facilities, to the streets of downtown Johannesburg. This book deals with how...
To Be Published August 31st 2013 by Routledge
This book employs actor-network theory in order to examine how representations of crime are produced for contemporary prime-time television dramas. As a unique examination of the production of contemporary crime television dramas, particularly their writing process, Making Crime Television:...
To Be Published September 2nd 2013 by Routledge
The Judicial Politics of Economic Integration analyses development strategies and regional integration in the Andean Community (the former Andean Pact), focusing on the establishment of the Andean Court of Justice and its case law, as well as the intellectual underpinnings that made such an...
To Be Published September 5th 2013 by Routledge
