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Marxism and Criminology
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 368

Marxism and Criminology

  • Categories: Law
  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2017-02-20
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  • Publisher: BRILL

Winner of the 2017 Choice Outstanding Academic Title Award In Marxism and Criminology: A History of Criminal Selectivity, Valeria Vegh Weis rehabilitates the contributions and the methodology of Marx and Engels to analyze crime and punishment through the historical development of capitalism (15th Century to the present) in Europe and in the United States. The author puts forward the concepts of over-criminalization and under-criminalization to show that the criminal justice system has always been selective. Criminal injustice, the book argues, has been an inherent element of the founding and reproduction of a capitalist society. At a time when racial profiling, prosecutorial discretion, and mass incarceration continue to defy easy answers, Vegh Weis invites us to revisit Marx and Engels’ contributions to identify socio-economic and historic patterns of crime and punishment in order to foster transformative changes to criminal justice. The book includes a Foreword by Professor Roger Matthews of Kent University, and an Afterword written by Professor Jonathan Simon of the University of California, Berkeley.

Seguridad(es) y derechos inciertos
  • Language: es
  • Pages: 366

Seguridad(es) y derechos inciertos

  • Categories: Law

Hasta hace poco, la cuestión de la seguridad ocupaba un papel central entre las preocupaciones de científicos y ciudadanos. Las cosas han cambiado en un periodo muy corto de tiempo. Ahora que lo vamos perdiendo casi todo, vemos que la seguridad sin el resto de condiciones vitales es una ilusión. Y podemos apreciar que, de nuevo, la protección de los derechos más básicos forma parte del discurso social y encuentra un hueco entre las exigencias sociales. Este libro, con sus distintas aportaciones, aspira a recordar una idea muy básica, que esa tensión entre el derecho a la seguridad y la promoción de la seguridad que ofrece la protección de los derechos tiene que ver con la idea de la justicia que queremos.

Consolidated Guideline on Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights of Women Living with HIV
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 144

Consolidated Guideline on Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights of Women Living with HIV

he starting point for this guideline is the point at which a woman has learnt that she is living with HIV and it therefore covers key issues for providing comprehensive sexual and reproductive health and rights-related services and support for women living with HIV. As women living with HIV face unique challenges and human rights violations related to their sexuality and reproduction within their families and communities as well as from the health-care institutions where they seek care particular emphasis is placed on the creation of an enabling environment to support more effective health interventions and better health outcomes. This guideline is meant to help countries to more effectively and efficiently plan develop and monitor programmes and services that promote gender equality and human rights and hence are more acceptable and appropriate for women living with HIV taking into account the national and local epidemiological context. It discusses implementation issues that health interventions and service delivery must address to achieve gender equality and support human rights.

The Trump Paradox
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 373

The Trump Paradox

The Trump Paradox: Migration, Trade, and Racial Politics in US-Mexico Integration explores one of the most complex and unequal cross-border relations in the world, in light of both a twenty-first-century political economy and the rise of Donald Trump. Despite the trillion-plus dollar contribution of Latinos to the US GDP, political leaders have paradoxically stirred racial resentment around immigrants just as immigration from Mexico has reached net zero. With a roster of state-of-the-art scholars from both Mexico and the US, The Trump Paradox explores a dilemma for a divided nation such as the US: in order for its economy to continue flourishing, it needs immigrants and trade.

Eating Raoul
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 110

Eating Raoul

"The Blands want to open a restaurant, but they need cash. Suppose they lure weirdos to their apartment to kill and rob them? Soon, they are a financial success, but disposing of the bodies is a problem. Enter their devious apartment super, Raoul, with a proposition: he will take care of the corpses for a cut (when he's not performing at a tacky nightclub"--Publisher.

Inventing the Future
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 358

Inventing the Future

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2015-11-17
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  • Publisher: Verso Books

This major new manifesto offers a “clear and compelling vision of a postcapitalist society” and shows how left-wing politics can be rebuilt for the 21st century (Mark Fisher, author of Capitalist Realism) Neoliberalism isn’t working. Austerity is forcing millions into poverty and many more into precarious work, while the left remains trapped in stagnant political practices that offer no respite. Inventing the Future is a bold new manifesto for life after capitalism. Against the confused understanding of our high-tech world by both the right and the left, this book claims that the emancipatory and future-oriented possibilities of our society can be reclaimed. Instead of running from a complex future, Nick Srnicek and Alex Williams demand a postcapitalist economy capable of advancing standards, liberating humanity from work and developing technologies that expand our freedoms. This new edition includes a new chapter where they respond to their various critics.

Acute Ischemic Stroke
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 299

Acute Ischemic Stroke

This updated second edition of Acute Ischemic Stroke: Imaging and Intervention provides a comprehensive account of the state of the art in the diagnosis and treatment of acute ischemic stroke. The basic format of the first edition has been retained, with sections on fundamentals such as pathophysiology and causes, imaging techniques and interventions. However, each chapter has been revised to reflect the important recent progress in advanced neuroimaging and the use of interventional tools. In addition, a new chapter is included on the classification instruments for ischemic stroke and their use in predicting outcomes and therapeutic triage. All of the authors are internationally recognized experts and members of the interdisciplinary stroke team at the Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School. The text is supported by numerous informative illustrations, and ease of reference is ensured through the inclusion of suitable tables. This book will serve as a unique source of up-to-date information for neurologists, emergency physicians, radiologists and other health care providers who care for the patient with acute ischemic stroke.

El derecho y las tecnologías de la información y la comunicación (TIC)
  • Language: es
  • Pages: 206

El derecho y las tecnologías de la información y la comunicación (TIC)

  • Categories: Law

La normativa sobre las tecnologías de la información y la comunicación (TIC) ha tenido un acelerado crecimiento en los últimos 15 años en Colombia y este ha permitido consolidar el derecho TIC como una fuente jurídica de relevancia. En efecto, leyes como la 527 de 1999 sobre comercio electrónico, la 1437 de 2011 que expide el Código de Procedimiento Administrativo y de lo Contencioso Administrativo, que incluye medios electrónicos de comunicación entre la administración y los ciudadanos o la 1581 de 2012 sobre la protección de datos personales, presentan un panorama en plena evolución que amerita ser analizado en detalle. La presente obra ofrece los resultados de la investigaci...

Fast Food Nation
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 387

Fast Food Nation

An exploration of the fast food industry in the United States, from its roots to its long-term consequences.

The Piano Tuner
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 372

The Piano Tuner

It is 1886 and piano tuner Edgar Drake receives a strange request from the War Office - he must leave his wife, and his life in London, to travel to Burma to tune a rare Erard grand piano. The piano belongs to Surgeon-Major Anthony Carroll, an enigmatic British officer whose unorthodox methods are attracting suspicion.