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  • Transforming State Responses to Feminicide

    Women’s Movements, Law and Criminal Justice Institutions in Brazil

    de Fiona Macaulay ...
    Series series Perspectives on Crime, Law and Justice in the Global South
    State responses to feminicide in Latin America, characterised in many cases by indifference and incompetence, have caused global concern. This book provides a new and refreshingly positive story from the region by tracing the transformation of state responses to feminicide in Brazil. It is the first single country study to examine in detail how strategic action by the women's movement has resulted ... Leer más

    $51.99 USD

  • Understanding and Working with People with Learning Disabilities who Self-injure

    de Fiona Macaulay, Helen Duperouzel, Phoebe Caldwell, Rebecca Fish, Noelle Blackman, Valerie Sinason, Gloria Babiker, Richard Curen ...
    Adopting a predominantly psychological approach, this book provides carers with up-to-date information and resources to provide appropriately individualised care to people with learning disabilities who self-injure.Understanding and Working with People with Learning Disabilities who Self-Injure synthesises traditional (behavioural) and newer (psychological) approaches to understanding self-injury, ... Leer más

    $31.99 USD

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  • Violent Democracies in Latin America

    de Neil L. Whitehead, Jo Ellen Fair, Leigh A. Payne ...
    Series series The Cultures and Practice of Violence
    Despite recent political movements to establish democratic rule in Latin American countries, much of the region still suffers from pervasive violence. From vigilantism, to human rights violations, to police corruption, violence persists. It is perpetrated by state-sanctioned armies, guerillas, gangs, drug traffickers, and local community groups seeking self-protection. The everyday presence of ... Leer más

    $25.99 USD

  • The Anti-Black City

    Police Terror and Black Urban Life in Brazil

    de Jaime Amparo Alves ...
    An important new ethnographic study of São Paulo’s favelas revealing the widespread use of race-based police repression in BrazilWhile Black Lives Matter still resonates in the United States, the movement has also become a potent rallying call worldwide, with harsh police tactics and repressive state policies often breaking racial lines. In The Anti-Black City, Jaime Amparo Alves delves into the ... Leer más

    $19.99 USD

  • Violence and Resilience in Latin American Cities

    Edición de Kees Koonings, Dirk Kruijt ...
    Why are Latin American cities amongst the most violent in the world? Over the past decades Latin America has not only become the most urbanised of the regions of the so-called global South, it has also been the scene of the urbanisation of poverty and exclusion. Overall regional homicides rates are the highest in the world, a fact closely related to the spread and use of firearms by male youths, ... Leer más

    $28.39 USD

  • The Politics of Drug Violence

    Criminals, Cops and Politicians in Colombia and Mexico

    de Angelica Duran-Martinez ...
    Over the last few decades, drug trafficking organizations in Latin America became infamous for their shocking public crimes, from narcoterrorist assaults on the Colombian political system in the 1980s to the more recent wave of beheadings in Mexico. However, while these highly visible forms of public violence dominate headlines, they are neither the most common form of drug violence nor simply the ... Leer más

    $36.99 USD

  • Everyday Revolutions

    Horizontalism and Autonomy in Argentina

    de Marina A. Sitrin ...
    In the wake of the global financial crisis, new forms of social organization are beginning to take shape. Disparate groups of people are coming together in order to resist corporate globalization and seek a more positive way forward. These movements are not based on hierarchy; rather than looking to those in power to solve their problems, participants are looking to one another. In certain ... Leer más

    $26.99 USD

  • Mexico's Unrule of Law

    Implementing Human Rights in Police and Judicial Reform under Democratization

    de Niels Uildriks ...
    Mexico's crisis of security is unrelenting. Why is it so hard to establish the rule of law, and why does the country's justice system continue to struggle to deliver both security and adherence to democratic values and human rights? To answer these questions, Mexico Unrule of Law: Implementing Human Rights in Police and Judicial Reform under Democratization looks at recent Mexican criminal justice ... Leer más

    $55.99 USD

  • The War on Drugs and the Global Colour Line

    Edición de Kojo Koram ...
    The War on Drugs has led to millions of people dead, displaced and incarcerated. Disproportionately enforced on oppressed races, international drug prohibition has reinforced the colour line across the globe.While laws prohibiting the production, sale and use of particular drugs are presented as politically neutral and objective, this collection reveals the racist impact of the War on Drugs across ... Leer más

    $23.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Organized Crime, Drug Trafficking, and Violence in Mexico

    The Transition from Felipe Calderón to Enrique Peña Nieto

    de Jonathan D. Rosen, Roberto Zepeda ...
    Series series Security in the Americas in the Twenty-First Century
    Organized Crime, Drug Trafficking, and Violence in Mexico: The Transition from Felipe Calderón to Enrique Peña Nieto examines the major trends in organized crime and drug trafficking in Mexico. The book provides an exhaustive analysis of drug-related violence in the country. This work highlights the transition from the Felipe Calderón administration to the Enrique Peña Nieto government, focusing ... Leer más

    $44.99 USD

  • Mexico's Illicit Drug Networks and the State Reaction

    de Nathan P. Jones ...
    Mexican drug networks are large and violent, engaging in activities like the trafficking of narcotics, money laundering, extortion, kidnapping, and mass murder. Despite the impact of these activities in Mexico and abroad, these illicit networks are remarkably resilient to state intervention.Drawing on extensive fieldwork and interviews with US and Mexican law enforcement, government officials, ... Leer más

    $29.69 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Indigenous Women and Violence

    Feminist Activist Research in Heightened States of Injustice

    Edición de Lynn Stephen, Shannon Speed ...
    Indigenous Women and Violence offers an intimate view of how settler colonialism and other structural forms of power and inequality created accumulated violences in the lives of Indigenous women. This volume uncovers how these Indigenous women resist violence in Mexico, Central America, and the United States, centering on the topics of femicide, immigration, human rights violations, the criminal ... Leer más

    $26.99 USD