A Companion to State Power, Liberties and Rights

by Sharon Morley (Editor), Jo Turner (Editor)

Overview

Interest in the study of state power, civil liberties, human rights, and state sponsored crime is growing and there is a need for a book which brings these topics together. This book, part of the Companions series, provides succinct yet robust definitions and explanations of core concepts and themes in relation to state power, liberties and human rights. The entries are bound by their inter-relatedness and relevance to the study of crime and harm and the volume draws upon established and emerging commentaries from other social and political disciplines. Laid out in a user-friendly A-Z format, it includes entries from expert contributors with clear direction to related entries and further reading. The contributors critically engage with the topics in an accessible yet challenging way, ensuring that the definitions go beyond a simple explanation of the word or theme. It will be suitable for undergraduate and postgraduate students on a variety of courses such as Criminology, Criminal Justice, International Relations, Politics, Social Policy, Policing Studies, and Law as well as other researchers in these areas.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781447325840
Publisher:	Policy Press
Publication date:	02/15/2017
Series:	Companions in Criminology and Criminal Justice
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	344
File size:	529 KB

About the Author

Sharon Morley is Deputy Head of Department of Social and Political Science and senior lecturer in criminology at the University of Chester, UK. Sharon’s research interests include young women’s experiences of violence; gender, space and self-regulation and span the areas of violence in society and the victimisation of health and social care professionals and media representations of mentally disordered offenders. Sharon is a member of a number of sexual violence research networks. Jo Turner is senior lecturer at the University of Chester, UK. Jo's eclectic mix of research interests come under the broad umbrella of comparative criminology: comparisons with the past - the history of criminal justice; comparisons globally - state crimes in the international arena; and gender based comparisons - women's experiences of the criminal justice system. Karen Corteen is a senior lecturer in criminal justice at Liverpool John Moores University, UK. Areas Karen has published in include victimology, critical criminology, and hate crime. Her research interests comprise: zemiology; occupational-related harms within the sports entertainment industry; victimisation, survival and resistance, and visual victimology. Paul Taylor is Deputy Head of the Department of Social and Political Science at the University of Chester, teaching criminology and criminal justice. His research and writing focuses on the sociology and social context of occupations, and the convergence of mental health and criminal justice discourse, policy and practice. Further, Paul is researching and writing (with colleagues from the University of Chester’s Institute of Medicine and Institute of Policing) on police firearms officers and personal/professional wellbeing.

Table of Contents

Contributors viii

Acknowledgements xxi

Preface xxii

A

Amnesty International 1

Animal Rights 3

Anti-apartheid Movement 5

Arms Trade 8

Asylum 10

Authoritarian Populism 13

B

Border Control 17

Bribery 19

C

Capital Punishment 21

Censorship 23

Child Soldiers 26

Citizenship 28

Civil Disorder and Unrest 30

Civil Liberties 31

Collective Violence 33

Conflict Resolution 35

Constitutionalism 38

Corporations 40

Corps 42

Corruption 44

Counterterrorism 46

Coup 48

Crimes of the Powerful 50

Critical Criminology and State Power 52

D

Data Protection 55

Deaths in Psychiatric Detention 57

Democracy 59

Democratic Policing 61

Disarmament and Demobilisation 63

Drones 66

Drug Control 68

Drug Trafficking 70

Duty of Care 72

E

Environmental Protection 75

Ethical Policing 77

Ethnic Cleansing 79

European Convention on Human Rights 82

European Court of Human Rights 83

European Union, The 85

Exceptional State 87

Extradition 89

F

Feminist Security Studies 93

Food Security 95

Forced Migration 97

Foreign Policy 99

G

Gendercide 103

Genocide 105

'Girl' Soldiers 107

Globalisation 109

Governmentality 111

Green Criminology 112

Guantánamo Bay 115

H

Habeas Corpus 117

Hague Convention 119

Hate Crime 122

Hegemony 124

Holocaust, The 127

Honour-based Violence and Honour Killings 129

Humanitarian Intervention 132

Human Rights 134

Human Trafficking 136

I

Identity Cards 139

Immigration 141

Imperialism 143

Insecurity 145

Intelligence 147

International Court of Justice 149

International Criminal Courts 151

International Humanitarian Law (IHL) 152

International Human Rights 154

International Tribunals 156

J

Jus ad bellum 159

Jus in bello 161

K

Knowledge, Power and the State 165

L

League of Nations 167

Legal Pluralism 169

M

Mass Incarceration 173

Militarism 175

Military Conflict 177

Multiculturalism 178

N

National Identity 183

National Security 185

Neoliberalism 187

O

Organised Crime 191

P

Paramilitary Groups 195

Parliamentary Privilege 197

Peacekeeping and Capacity-building 199

Police Violence 201

Political Crime 203

Post-conflict Resolution 207

Prisoners' Rights 209

Prisoners' Rights Post-custody 211

Private Security 213

Proportionality 215

Protest 217

R

Rape as a Weapon of War 221

Reconciliation 223

Refugee Convention (1951) 225

Rendition 228

Resistance 230

Responsibility to Protect (R2P) 232

Riots 234

Risk 236

S

Semi-penal Institutions 239

Social Control 241

Social Harm 243

Social Justice 245

Social Movements 247

Social Policy and Human Rights 249

State, The 251

State Crime 253

State Harm 255

State of Denial 257

State Policy, Rights and Multiculturalism 259

State Power 261

State Punishment 263

State Terrorism 265

State Violence 267

Stop and Search 269

Surveillance 271

Surveillance of Electronic Communications and the Law 273

T

Theories of the State 275

Torture 277

Transitional Justice 279

U

United Nations, The 283

United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child 285

United Nations Security Council 287

Universal Declaration of Human Rights 289

V

Violence 293

W

War 297

War Crimes 297

World Bank 300

X

Xenophobia 303

Z

Zemiology 305

Appendix: International campaign groups and sources of interest 307

Convention, legislation, statute and treaty index 311

Subject index 312

What People are Saying About This

From the Publisher

"An insightful volume by an international team of scholars, worth reading by anyone concerned with state power and responsibility for civil liberties and human rights." Sheying Chen, Pace University

"A comprehensive and critical engagement with state power that will be of use to undergraduate students”. Roy Coleman, University of Liverpool

"The concision and insightfulness of this volume will be of tremendous value to all those who need a compact account of the topics listed." Brice Dickson, Professor of International and Comparative Law, Queen’s UniversityBelfast

Editorial Reviews

"An interdisciplinary toolbox of theories, concepts, perspectives and institutional insights that are fundamental to grasping the complexities of human rights, civil liberties and their relationship to state activity and inactivity” Ross McGarry, University of Liverpool

From the Publisher

"The concision and insightfulness of this volume will be of tremendous value to all those who need a compact account of the topics listed."

Brice Dickson

"An interdisciplinary toolbox of theories, concepts, perspectives, and institutional insights that are fundamental to grasping the complexities of human rights, civil liberties, and their relationship to state activity and inactivity.

Ross McGarry

"An insightful volume by an international team of scholars, worth reading by anyone concerned with state power and responsibility for civil liberties and human rights."

Sheying Chen

"A comprehensive and critical engagement with state power that will be of use to undergraduate students."

Roy Coleman