Author: Patricia GossmanPublisher: Human Rights Watch
ISBN: 9781564320711
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 54
Book Description
3. The pattern of abuse
Police Killings and Rural Violence in Andhra Pradesh
Author: Patricia GossmanPublisher: Human Rights Watch
ISBN: 9781564320711
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 54
Book Description
3. The pattern of abuse
Police Abuse and Killings of Street Children in India
Author: Arvind GanesanPublisher: Human Rights Watch
ISBN: 9781564322050
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 206
Book Description
The laws of India
Is Killing Wrong?
Author: Mark CooneyPublisher: University of Virginia Press
ISBN: 0813928354
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 270
Book Description
"Thou shalt not kill" is arguably the most basic moral and legal principle in any society. Yet while some killers are pilloried and punished, others are absolved and acquitted, and still others are lauded and lionized. Why? The traditional answer is that how killers are treated depends on the nature of their killing, whether it was aggressive or defensive, intentional or accidental. But those factors cannot explain the enormous variation in legal officials' and citizens' responses to real-life homicides. Cooney argues that a radically new style of thought—pure sociology—can. Conceived by the sociologist Donald Black, pure sociology makes no reference to psychology, to any single person's intent, or even to individuals as such. Instead, pure sociology explains behavior in terms of its social geometry—its location and direction in a multidimensional social space. Is Killing Wrong? provides the most comprehensive assessment of pure sociology yet attempted. Drawing on data from well over one hundred societies, including the modern-day United States, it represents the most thorough account yet of case-level social control, or the response to conduct defined as wrong. In doing so, it demonstrates that the law and morality of homicide are neither universal nor relative but geometrical, as predicted by Black's theory.
Of Captivity and Resistance
Author: Sharmila PurkayasthaPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1009392751
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 338
Book Description
An intervention in the field of dissenting writings by women political detainees in India in the 1970s, and it straddles three interlinked areas: politics, prison and writing. It focuses on writings arising out of Bengal's Naxalite movement (1967–1975) and from the pan-Indian period of Emergency (1975–1977).
Broken People
Author: Smita NarulaPublisher: Human Rights Watch
ISBN: 9781564322289
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 340
Book Description
Women and the Law.
"Bound by Brotherhood"
Author: Jayshree BajoriaPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Civil rights
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
"The report, "'Bound by Brotherhood': India’s Failure to End Killings in Police Custody," examines police disregard for arrest regulations, custodial deaths from torture, and impunity for those responsible. It draws on in-depth investigations into 17 deaths in custody that occurred between 2009 and 2015, including more than 70 interviews with victims' family members, witnesses, justice experts, and police officials. In each of the 17 cases, the police did not follow proper arrest procedures, making the suspect more vulnerable to abuse"--Publisher's description.
State Violence and Punishment in India
Author: Taylor C. ShermanPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135224862
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 259
Book Description
Exploring violent confrontation between the state and the population in colonial and postcolonial India, this book is both a study of the ways in which governments in India used collective coercion and state violence against the population, and a cultural history of how acts of state violence were interpreted by the population.
Colonial Institutions and Civil War
Author: Shivaji MukherjeePublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108844995
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 415
Book Description
Shows how colonial indirect rule and land tenure institutions create state weakness, ethnic inequality and insurgency in India, and around the world.
India Country Study Guide Volume 1 Strategic Information and Developments
Author: IBP USAPublisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1438774605
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 284
Book Description
India Country Study Guide - Strategic Information and Developments Volume 1 Strategic Information and Developments
Author: