Criminal Justice: A Peacemaking Perspective is an exciting alternative text that enables the instructor to challenge the student to think critically about important criminal justice issues. This text is not just a compilation of criminal justice facts but is a provocative and stimulating book that will enhance classroom discussions and get the ...
Although Indigenous peoples were the earliest practitioners of law in Canada, their legal systems have often been ignored or overruled by non-Indigenous laws. Under colonialism, Indigenous legal traditions lost much of their influence. Today, however, they are recognized as vital for the preservation of the political autonomy of Aboriginal nations ...
In recent decades the world has experienced the rise of so-called 'low intensity conflicts'. Unlike conventional wars these very bloody armed conflicts are no longer the affair of state governments and their armies. In their place appear police-like armed units,security services and secret services, groups and organizations of religious, political ...
The collected essays by an international group of authors, this book explores the ways in which law and legal institutions are used in countries coming to terms with traumatic pasts, and, in some cases, traumatic presents. Little attention has been paid in the past to the ways in which different, and sometimes competing, concepts of time are ...
The civil war in Bougainville in the Pacific lasted from 1990-2001. This is the story of its aftermath. During the war, when the western court system could not operate, the people returned to custom law to resolve their problems. After the crisis they continued to draw on their ancient traditions of peace making, reconciliation and forgiveness to ...
This book offers a series of original essays by an international group of scholars whose work looks comparatively at law's attempts to deal with the past. Ranging from questions of criminal responsibility and amnesty to those of law's relation to time,memory, and the ethics of reconciliation, it is a sustained jurisprudential and philosophical ...
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