Challenging the rule(s) of law : colonialism, criminology and human rights in India / edited by Kalpana Kannabiran, Ranbir Singh.
2008
KNS3411 .C45 2008eb
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Title
Challenging the rule(s) of law : colonialism, criminology and human rights in India / edited by Kalpana Kannabiran, Ranbir Singh.
ISBN
9788132100270 (electronic bk.)
8132100271 (electronic bk.)
9352801237
9789352801237
8132112385
9788132112389
1281963658
9781281963659
9786611963651
6611963650
9780761936657
0761936653
8132100271 (electronic bk.)
9352801237
9789352801237
8132112385
9788132112389
1281963658
9781281963659
9786611963651
6611963650
9780761936657
0761936653
Imprint
Thousand Oaks, Calif. : SAGE Publications, 2008.
Language
English
Language Note
English.
Description
1 online resource (xix, 495 pages)
Call Number
KNS3411 .C45 2008eb
System Control No.
(OCoLC)501176322
Summary
This book re-examines the field of criminology through an interdisciplinary lens, challenging in the process unproblematic assumptions of the rule of law and opening out avenues for a renewed and radical restatement of the contexts of criminal law in India.
Note
This book re-examines the field of criminology through an interdisciplinary lens, challenging in the process unproblematic assumptions of the rule of law and opening out avenues for a renewed and radical restatement of the contexts of criminal law in India.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note
Laws of metamorphosis : from nomad to offender / Meena Radhakrishna
Victims and villains : the construction of female criminality in colonial Calcutta / Sumanta Banerjee
'That despicable specimen of humanity' : policing of homosexuality in India / Arvind Narrain
Sexual assault and the law / Kalpana Kannabiran
Social exclusion and criminal law / S.R. Sankaran
Building a subaltern women's perspective / Jayshree P. Mangubhai and Aloysius Irudayam S.J.
Whose life is it anyway? : Adivasi communities and entitlements to life / Seema Misra
Preserving wellness and personhood : a psychosocial approach to the child / Shekhar P. Seshadri and Kaveri I. Haritas
Penal strategies and political resistance in colonial and independent India / Ujjwal Kumar Singh
Communities, gender and the border : a legal narrative on India's North East / Paula Banerjee
Parens Patriae : exercising patriarchal prerogative in post-partition India / Ritu Menon
Law and life in the state of nature : archiving stories from legal literacy / Abha Singhal Joshi
Revisiting impunity and criminality : of corruption, collusion, consequences and victims / Vijay K. Nagaraj
Khap Panchayats in Haryana : sites of legal pluralism / K.S. Sangwan
Crimes, passion and detachment : colonial foundations of rule of law / Ranabir Samaddar
Conspiracies of association : associational offences, associational freedoms and the rule of law / K.G. Kannabiran
Of strong medicine and weak stomachs : the resort to enhanced punishment in criminal law in India / Bikram Jeet Batra
The contexts of criminology : a brief restatement / Kalpana Kannabiran.
Victims and villains : the construction of female criminality in colonial Calcutta / Sumanta Banerjee
'That despicable specimen of humanity' : policing of homosexuality in India / Arvind Narrain
Sexual assault and the law / Kalpana Kannabiran
Social exclusion and criminal law / S.R. Sankaran
Building a subaltern women's perspective / Jayshree P. Mangubhai and Aloysius Irudayam S.J.
Whose life is it anyway? : Adivasi communities and entitlements to life / Seema Misra
Preserving wellness and personhood : a psychosocial approach to the child / Shekhar P. Seshadri and Kaveri I. Haritas
Penal strategies and political resistance in colonial and independent India / Ujjwal Kumar Singh
Communities, gender and the border : a legal narrative on India's North East / Paula Banerjee
Parens Patriae : exercising patriarchal prerogative in post-partition India / Ritu Menon
Law and life in the state of nature : archiving stories from legal literacy / Abha Singhal Joshi
Revisiting impunity and criminality : of corruption, collusion, consequences and victims / Vijay K. Nagaraj
Khap Panchayats in Haryana : sites of legal pluralism / K.S. Sangwan
Crimes, passion and detachment : colonial foundations of rule of law / Ranabir Samaddar
Conspiracies of association : associational offences, associational freedoms and the rule of law / K.G. Kannabiran
Of strong medicine and weak stomachs : the resort to enhanced punishment in criminal law in India / Bikram Jeet Batra
The contexts of criminology : a brief restatement / Kalpana Kannabiran.
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