| Description |
1 online resource (xix, 495 pages) |
| Contents |
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 |
| Summary |
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 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Criminal justice, Administration of -- India
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Rule of law -- India -- History
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Crime -- India -- History
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Criminology -- India -- History
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Criminal law -- India
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Human rights -- India
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LAW -- Criminal Law -- General.
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Crime
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Criminal justice, Administration of
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Criminal law
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Criminology
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Human rights
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Rule of law
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| SUBJECT |
India -- History -- British occupation, 1765-1947.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85064915
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| Subject |
India
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Kannabirān, Kalpana.
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Singh, Ranbir
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| ISBN |
9788132100270 |
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8132100271 |
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9352801237 |
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9789352801237 |
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8132112385 |
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9788132112389 |
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1281963658 |
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9781281963659 |
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9786611963651 |
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6611963650 |
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