Violence and Punishment

In June 2015, Canada's Truth and Reconciliation Commission released 94 Calls to Action that urged reform of policies and programs to repair the har...

In a compelling tale of two families and an act of violence with far-reaching consequences, Oates compares the divisions in American society that r...

DescriptionDescription: Does God use violence to redeem us? What is the relationship between divine love and violence in regard to the saving signi...

Based on the author's popular Times Online column 'Weird Cases', this book draws on extraordinary cases from many countries. The chapters are: Comp...

Reducere. The award-winning "radically original" (The Atlantic) restorative justice leader, whose work the Washington Post has called "totally sensible and t...

In the decades after Irish independence, 292 women were prosecuted for murder, facing the threat of conviction and death sentencing. Within a risin...

Reducere. DescriptionIn the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries imprisoned black women faced wrenching forms of gendered racial terror and heinous ...

Reducere. A punishment may not be an act of violence, of one or of many, against a private member of society, it should be public, immediate and necessary; t...

Reducere. A challenge to the cultural tradition of corporal punishment in Black homes and its connections to racial violence in America Why do so many Africa...

Reducere. Poverty-stricken and cut off from society, former law student Rodion Romanovich Raskolnikov leads a desolate life in a dreary little room in St Pet...

Reducere. Delving behind Canada's veneer of multiculturalism and tolerance, Policing Black Lives traces the violent realities of anti-blackness from the slav...

Reducere. One of Latin America's most important and prolific writers, Griselda Gambaro has focused on the dynamics of repression, complicity, and violence--s...

Reducere. DescriptionDescription: Why did Jesus have to die? Was it to appease a wrathful God's demand for punishment? Does that mean Jesus died to save us f...

Description Powerful tools for spreading peace in your community Unfounded beliefs and hateful political and social divisions that can cascade into...

DescriptionWhat happens to migrants after they are deported from the United States and dropped off at the Mexican border, often hundreds if not tho...

DescriptionServing Time Too: A Memoir of My Son's Prison Years is the universally accessible story of a mother and son: what she knew about him; wh...

Reducere. "The prose is fresh and energetic, the story-telling superb, and the writing comes out as raw and terrifying as an exposed nerve." New York Times A...

Understanding Children's Development is the UK's best-selling developmental psychology textbook and has been widely acclaimed for its international...

DescriptionThe collection investigates the role of international criminal law at different stages of mass atrocities, shifting away from its narrow...

Reducere. What is a Buddhist response to political oppression and economic exploitation? Does Buddhism encourage passivity and victimization? Can violent per...

Long before people identified as transgender or lesbian, there were female husbands and the women who loved them. Female husbands - people assigned...

Reducere. Although most young offenders have experienced some form of trauma, the juvenile justice system in the United States is ill-equipped to deal with t...

Reducere. Long before people identified as transgender or lesbian, there were female husbands and the women who loved them. Female husbands - people assigned...

Two decades before the Civil War, Elijah P. Lovejoy used his newspaper to demand an end to slavery - dangerous beliefs that turned deadly as mobs r...

Reducere. This is a marvellous contribution by Chris Owen to the understanding of the role the Western Australian police force played in the colonial expansi...

This incisive study takes on one of the grimmest secrets in America's national life-the history of lynching and, more generally, the public punishm...

Reducere. The gasps and murmuring grew. Though some were hardly more than whispers, clear words reached Jace's ears--dangerous, monster, animal, soulless. He...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Kenneth E. HartmanThe fierce and affecting memoir of a convicted murderer, whose growing self-awareness enables him to unde...