Law and Criminology

Is this sudden overnight metamorphosis; from, yesterdays man with all his ambitions, personal bias and with personal greed and aggrandizement...to a today’s man dispassionate, honest, selfless, unbiased, unruffled by past fads and past likes and d...

This book is based on the doctoral dissertation of the author. After analysing all the important theories of justice, the author erects his own on their grave. This work is a document of a humanistic sense of justice which leans more towards the i...

About the Book There can be no dispute that the judges of the high courts and the Supreme Court of India wield tremendous powers. However, power comes with a price which bestows huge responsibility and calls for strict adherence to dos and don'ts....

Contempt of Court, because of its controversial nature, has created contradictory opinions among the jurists as well as scholars. The contempt jurisprudence with the common law origin has been transmitted into the Indian jurisprudence by the Court...

This book is the first empirical study of police discretion in India. Going beyond anecdotal accounts, it addresses the issues and concerns of arrest discretion behaviour of police with analysis of available literature internationally, testing the...

This work seeks to determine the roles played by the paramount judiciary in the Indian polity between 1937 and 1964. The discussion starts with an examination of the Federal Court, the establishment of which in 1937 brought into existence Indias f...

To be assaulted, abused and raped by someone as intimate as a husband, or lover, is the most degrading experience for a woman. Not recognized as ’real’ violence, abuse of this nature is experienced daily by countless women in every culture. Behind...

This book examines the constitutional and regulatory frameworks surrounding loan and debt recovery laws in India, focusing on the Securitisation and Reconstruction of Financial Assets and Enforcement of Security Interest (SARFAESI) Act, 2002. It e...

About the Book "The three pillars of sustainable development are economic growth, social development and protection of environment and an integration of these pillars is required for national planning and policymaking. The greatest drawback of the...

About the Book The National Judicial Appointments Commission (NJAC) judgment, on the appointment of judges to the Supreme Court, has been the subject of a deeply polarized debate in the public sphere and academia. This volume analyses the NJAC jud...

This book is a unique effort of the author to expose the anomalies prevailing in the judiciary. In fact, the highly appalling issue—justice in time—has long been a matter of great concern not only for the people of India, but of the entire Third W...

The present book The Human Rights is an indepth-systematized study of recent developments, particularly since 1970s, in the international concern for promotion and protection of basic human rights within and beyond national boundaries. This has be...

About the Book Former Chief Justice of Pakistan Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhryâs tenure, from 2005 to 2013, has been characterized by remarkable developments in constitutional politics and the jurisprudence of the apex court. This was also a period o...

About the Book This book is a sweeping indictment of the legal profession in the realm of constitutional interpretation. The adversarial, advocacy-based American legal system is well suited to American justice, in which one-sided arguments collide...

About the Author Prabhash Ranjan teaches at the Faculty of Law, South Asian University, New Delhi, India.

This book captures a stage in the history of the struggle for human rights. The collection of essays encapsulates hopes and critiques of young activists from Armenia, Austria, Brazil, Cambodia, Costa Rica, Egypt, Italy, Kenya, Laos, Macedonia, Phi...

About the Book Private law governs our most pervasive relationships with other people: the wrongs we do to one another, the property we own and exclude from others' use, the contracts we make and break, and the benefits realized at another's expen...

This remarkable study focuses on the relationship between forms of prostitution, discourses on law making, and law enforcement practices. Across the 19th and early 20th centuries, the colonial government in Bombay city formulated laws on prostitut...

About the Book Child Sexual Abuse and Protection Laws in India presents in-depth research on the sexual abuse of children in India, the related protection laws and the gaps in current preventive measures. The book includes chapters on the nature o...

Triple talaq or talaq-e-bidat, is one of the most debated issues in the Muslim world. From antiquity, the Muslim faith has been plagued by the portrayal of Muslim men regularly misusing this perceived “right” to divorce their wives instantly by si...

This book engages with different aspects of India’s practice of international law. It covers a diverse range of areas such as human rights, humanitarian law, migration, diplomacy, extradition, environment, trade, investment, taxation, cyberspace, ...

Community policing is a widely discussed philosophy within law enforcement around the world. However, its implementation has remained inadequate either due to the organisational settings of the police or the suspicious approach of the community. C...

The book contains an analytical, graphic and yet, judicious study of the much debated and controversial topic of a suitable legislation on “Uniform Civil Code” for all the citizens of India despite their religion or race or ethnicity in compliance...

Although efforts had been made by foreign scholars to analyse and develop this most difficult branch of Constitutional Law, the initiative from Indian authors has been lacking. This is the first book of its kind in India. The book studies each and...

Labour law mediates the relationship between workers, employers, trade unions and the government. Collective labour law bounds up with tripartite relationship between employee, employer and union, while individual labour law concerns employees' ri...

The book covers university syllabi in Sociology in the papers : Criminology, Penology and Criminology and Penology. Analytic in presentation, holistic in interpretation, with examples drawn from Indian situations and narration in simple language, ...

From the Back CoverThis book examines the practice of Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) as it stands today in the context of matrimonial disputes and for providing gender justice for women undergoing matrimonial litigation. ADR is a fairly rece...

From the Back CoverFirst introduced in the United States, whistleblower laws have become increasingly popular around the world. This book illustrates the regional efforts undertaken by European organizations to promote whistleblower protection in ...

Law and violence are thought to share an antithetical relationship in postcolonial modernity. Violence is considered the other of law, lawlessness is understood to produce violence, and law is invoked and deployed to undo the violence of lawlessne...

From the Back CoverThe book provides an analysis of the emergence, evolution, and transformation of transnational securities regulation and of the influences from and the interactions between global regulatory powers in the field. Combining insigh...

From the Back CoverThe expression "transitional justice" emerged at the end of the Cold War, during the transition from dictatorships to democracies, and serves as a central concept in dealing with systemic injustice. This textbook examines the ba...

From the Back CoverThis book explores interactions between the new generation EU FTA and the WTO dispute settlement mechanisms, adopting an innovative, comprehensive approach. It investigates how the mechanisms potentially could and actually do co...

From the Inside FlapTHE WILEY-BLACKWELL HANDBOOK OF Legal and Ethical Aspects of Sex Offender Treatment and Management Edited by Karen Harrison and Bernadette Rainey This vital new work on the legal and ethical dimensions of dealing with sex offen...

From the Back Cover"Britain's empire did not arrive fully formed in India. Haruki Inagaki's superbly-researched, well-argued book traces its emergence in a proliferating set of arguments...[and] offers a compelling account of the real life of empi...