Challenging the rule(s) of law : colonialism, criminology and human rights in India / edited by Kalpana Kannabiran, Ranbir Singh.
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TextPublication details: Thousand Oaks, Calif. : SAGE Publications, 2008.Description: 1 online resource (xix, 495 pages)Content type: - text
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- Challenging the rules of law
- Criminal justice, Administration of -- India
- Rule of law -- India -- History
- Crime -- India -- History
- Criminology -- India -- History
- Criminal law -- India
- Human rights -- India
- India -- History -- British occupation, 1765-1947
- Règle de droit -- Inde -- Histoire
- Criminologie -- Inde -- Histoire
- Droits de l'homme (Droit international) -- Inde
- Inde -- Histoire -- 1765-1947 (Occupation britannique)
- LAW -- Criminal Law -- General
- Crime
- Criminal justice, Administration of
- Criminal law
- Criminology
- Human rights
- Rule of law
- India
- British Occupation of India (India : 1765-1947)
- 1765-1947
- 345.54/05 22
- KNS3411 .C45 2008eb
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
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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.
English.
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