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Recherches sur l'origine du despotisme oriental
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ISBN: 2849670405 Year: 2007 Publisher: Checy : Coda,

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Horse behaviour and welfare
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ISBN: 9086860338 908686614X Year: 2007 Publisher: Wageningen, The Netherlands : Wageningen Academic Publishers,

Torture and democracy
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ISBN: 9780691114224 9780691143330 0691143331 0691114226 Year: 2007 Publisher: Princeton, N.J. Princeton University Press

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Issues in green criminology : confronting harms against environments, humanity and other animals
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ISBN: 9781843922209 1843922207 9781843926344 9781134017430 9781134017508 9781134017577 9781843922193 Year: 2007 Publisher: Cullompton : Willan Pub.,


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L'humanité perdue : essai sur le XXe siècle
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ISBN: 9782020914260 2020914263 Year: 2007 Volume: 557 Publisher: Paris : Seuil,

The phenomenon of torture : readings and commentary
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ISBN: 9780812219821 0812219821 9780812291827 0812291824 132251111X 0812203399 Year: 2007 Publisher: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press,

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Torture is the most widespread human rights crime in the modern world, practiced in more than one hundred countries, including the United States. How could something so brutal, almost unthinkable, be so prevalent? The Phenomenon of Torture: Readings and Commentary is designed to answer that question and many others. Beginning with a sweeping view of torture in Western history, the book examines questions such as these: Can anyone be turned into a torturer? What exactly is the psychological relationship between a torturer and his victim? Are certain societies more prone to use torture? Are there any circumstances under which torture is justified-to procure critical information in order to save innocent lives, for example? How can torture be stopped or at least its incidence be reduced?Edited and with an introduction by the former Executive Director of Amnesty International USA, The Phenomenon of Torture draws on the writings of torture victims themselves, such as the Argentinian journalist Jacobo Timerman, as well as leading scholars like Elaine Scarry, author of The Body in Pain. It includes classical works by Voltaire, Jeremy Bentham, Hannah Arendt, and Stanley Milgram, as well as recent works by historian Adam Hochschild and psychotherapist Joan Golston. And it addresses new developments in efforts to combat torture, such as the designation of rape as a war crime and the use of the doctrine of universal jurisdiction to prosecute perpetrators. Designed for the student and scholar alike, it is, in sum, an anthology of the best and most insightful writing about this most curious and common form of abuse. Juan E. Méndez, Special Advisor to the United Nations Secretary General on the Prevention of Genocide and himself a victim of torture, provides a foreword.


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Torture
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ISBN: 1429498315 9781429498319 0791479676 Year: 2007 Publisher: Albany State University of New York Press

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The "war on terror" has brought the subject of torture to the forefront of public attention. In contrast to other discussions that focus narrowly on the practice of torture, and condemn it under any and all circumstances, Mirko Bagaric and Julie Clarke argue that to take this position is to live in a moral vacuum. The subject of torture causes our emotions to conflict with our reason. When we have a choice between saving the life of an innocent person, and not harming a terrorist or other wrongdoer, it is indecent to absolutely prefer the interests of the wrongdoer. In contrast, they propose a moral standard where each individual's interest counts equally. Within this standard, the ostensibly brutal act of torture may be permissible if it has the potential to achieve compassionate outcomes in the form of saving innocent lives.

Atrocity, punishment, and international law
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ISBN: 9780521691383 0521691389 9780521870894 0521870895 9780511611100 1107171822 0511285817 0511301715 0511611102 1280909749 0511286538 0511284233 0511285051 9780511286537 9780511285813 0511282656 9780511285059 9780511282652 9780511301711 9780511284236 9786610909742 6610909741 9781107171824 9781280909740 Year: 2007 Publisher: Cambridge New York Cambridge University Press

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This book argues that accountability for extraordinary atrocity crimes should not uncritically adopt the methods and assumptions of ordinary liberal criminal law. Criminal punishment designed for common criminals is a response to mass atrocity and a device to promote justice in its aftermath. This book comes to this conclusion after reviewing the sentencing practices of international, national, and local courts and tribunals that punish atrocity perpetrators. Sentencing practices of these institutions fail to attain the goals that international criminal law ascribes to punishment, in particular retribution and deterrence. Fresh thinking is necessary to confront the collective nature of mass atrocity and the disturbing reality that individual membership in group-based killings is often not maladaptive or deviant behavior but, rather, adaptive or conformist behavior. This book turns to a modern, and adventurously pluralist, application of classical notions of cosmopolitanism to advance the frame of international criminal law to a broader construction of atrocity law and towards an interdisciplinary, contextual, and multicultural conception of justice.

Compensating child abuse in England and Wales
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ISBN: 1107169224 1280815663 0511274777 0511494882 0511275471 0511273223 0511321007 0511274017 9780511274770 9780511275470 052186402X 9780521864022 9780511494888 9781107169227 9781280815669 9780511273223 9780511321009 9780511274015 Year: 2007 Publisher: Cambridge, UK New York Cambridge University Press

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Providing a detailed analysis of the legal principles in England & Wales, this book looks at governing compensation claims for the lasting trauma caused by child abuse. Its pages discuss the merits and demerits of different forms of action as mechanisms for imposing liability for abuse, how compensable psychiatric damage can be proved and how the law deals with complex issues of duty of care, causation and extending limitation periods in the context of abuse cases. Whilst a substantial portion of the book deals with civil claims by the abused for the psychological harm caused by the abuse, coverage also extends to litigation by other parties involved directly or indirectly in abuse allegations. Also included is a significant comparative element, drawing upon jurisdictions such as Canada, Australia and New Zealand, as a means of speculating how our own legal system might develop.

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