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Li, Yongping, 1947-
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895.1352 21
Publication Date
2003
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Retribution opens with the raucous festivities surrounding the annual procession to honor the Bodhisattva Guanyin. Changsheng, the young wife of the local coffin maker Liu Laoshi, is raped while making an offering to Guanyin in the hope of increasing her chances of bearing a son. Changsheng hangs herself following the encounter, and Liu Laoshi exacts bloody vengeance on the rapist's own wife and favorite prostitute. This act of sexual violence and its retribution provide the narrative pivot around which is woven a web of interconnecting stories, whose characters and events provide.
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Wilson, Richard, 1964-
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305.800968 22
Publication Date
2001
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"The South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) was set up to deal with the human rights violations of apartheid during the years 1960-1994. However, as Wilson shows, the TRC's restorative justice approach to healing the nation did not always serve the needs of communities at a local level. Based on extended anthropological fieldwork, this book illustrates the impact of the TRC in urban African communities in the Johannesburg area. While a religious constituency largely embraced the Commission's religious-redemptive language of reconciliation, Wilson argues that the TRC had little effect on popular ideas of justice as retribution. This provocative study deepens our understanding of post-apartheid South Africa and the use of human rights discourse. It ends on a call for more cautious and realistic expectations about what human rights institutions can achieve in democratizing countries."--Jacket.
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Trompf, G. W.
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200.92 22
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2010
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XX(303644.1)
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How much did the Allies know of the horrors being committed against European Jews at the hands of the German Nazis, and were they in a position to act against them as they were occurring? This programme considers this unsettling question before exploring the Allied response after the war, when the full and harrowing extent of the Holocaust was revealed. A close examination of the Nuremburg Trials provides students with insight into the considered legal process of Nazi retribution.
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XX(303552.1)
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A person's intellectual property does not just refer to their ideas or words. It also means any images, music and videos that they have created. These types of works are protected online by a licence that tells us if and how we can use or modify them. Understanding these licences is important not only for accessing great media for your research projects, but for making sure you're a respectful digital citizen.
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Hoffman, Morris B., 1952-
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303.36 22
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2014
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Using evidence and arguments from neuroscience and evolutionary psychology, Morris B. Hoffman describes how the judge and jury system evolved.
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Healey, Justin.
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364 22
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2011
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The aim of imprisonment is to prevent crime and enhance community safety by removing offenders from the public sphere and deterring potential offenders, as well as meeting society's need for reparation and retribution for crimes committed. However, while a period of imprisonment may deter some people from re-offending, it can also foster in others further criminal behaviour. Since 1989, the imprisonment rate has increased by around two-thirds; currently almost 40 per cent of Australian prisoners released after serving their sentence return to jail within two years. This book examines crime and.
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Linehan, Paul Michael, 1961- author.
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303.340951 23
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2018
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Wasti, Tahir.
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345.549105 22
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2009
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The discourse around Sharia law is largely focussed on its development and the theories, principles and rules that inform it. This title deals with the consequences of enforcing Islamic criminal law in Pakistan. It provides an analysis of the application of the Islamic law of Qisas and Diyat (retribution and blood money) in the Muslim world.
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Polloczek, Dieter.
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823.009355 21
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1999
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"Polloczek analyses the links between actual legal fictions such as substituted judgements, notions of equity, literary tropes, and the construction and representation of social bonds through sentiment, philanthropy and marginalization. Polloczek's study is both theoretical and historical, covering a period that extends from the eighteenth century to the modernist period, and includes texts from Sterne, Bentham, Dickens and Conrad."--Jacket.
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Chambliss, William J.
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364.6
Publication Date
2011
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Corrections looks at the correctional system and offers arguments for and against the practice of the laws and policies that comprise corrections, from parole and probation to imprisonment, to the application of the death penalty. The 20 included chapters, written by eminent scholars and experts in the fields of criminology, police science, law, sociology, psychology, and other disciplines, take on such contested topics as what the goals of the correctional system should be (deterrence, rehabilitation, retribution, or something else?) and how they should be achieved; who should make these dec.
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Felton, Mark, 1974-
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940.54050952 22
Publication Date
2010
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This book examines the period between the unconditional surrender of Japan on 14 August 1945 and the arrival of Allied liberation forces in Japanese-occupied territories after 2 September 1945. The delay handed the Japanese a golden opportunity to set their house in order before Allied war crimes investigators arrived. After 14 August groups of Allied POWs were brutally murdered. Vast amounts of documentation concerning crimes were burned ahead of the arrival of Allied forces. POW facilities and medical experimentation installations were either abandoned or destroyed. Perhaps the greatest crim.
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