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Title Criminal legalities in the global South : cultural dynamics, political tensions, and institutional practices / edited by Pablo Ciocchini and George Radics
Published Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2020

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Description 1 online resource (xv, 237 pages)
Series Routledge studies in crime and justice in Asia and the Global South
Routledge studies in crime and justice in Asia and the global South.
Contents Reinterpreting chaos as diversity : an alternative legal approach from the Global South / Pablo Ciocchini -- Criminalizing adultery in Colonial India : constructing the wife vs. the other in Islamic family law / Anisur Rahman -- "First World problems" in the "Third World" : LGBT rights in Singapore / George Radics -- Privacy in public spaces : the transformative potential of Navtej Johar v. Union of India / Danish Sheikh -- Gambling with criminal law : the legal paradox of "Jogo do Bicho" (animal lottery) criminalization in Brazil / João Araújo Monteiro Neto and Nestor Eduardo Araruna Santiago -- (Cr)immigration in the Dominican Republic? : decolonizing the human rights of vulnerable Haitian migrants / Carolina Yoko Furusho -- Cosmologies of federal criminal procedural reform : democratizing and humanizing criminal justice in Argentina / Julieta Mira -- Of punishment, protest, and press conferences : contentious politics amidst despotic decision in contemporary Burmese courtrooms / Elliott Prasse-Freeman -- The politics of judicial actors in the Philippines : war on drugs / Pablo Ciocchini -- Arresting a due process revolution : the reform of Indonesia's code of criminal procedure and the persistence of history / Jayson Lamchek -- Sacrificing justice for efficiency? : examining premature dismissal rates in Peruvian corruption cases / Wilson Hernández -- Sexual crimes and transitional justice before courts in Brazil : accountability for crimes against humanity / Emilio Peluso Neder Meyer and Claudia Paiva Carvalho -- Seeking commonalities from across the South / George B. Radics
Summary "This book presents the work of academics from the Global South and explores, from local and regional settings, how the legal order and people's perception of it translates into an understanding of what constitutes 'criminal' behaviours or activities. It aims to make an important contribution in the development of Southern Criminology"-- Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Pablo Ciocchini is a lecturer at the University of Liverpool in Singapore. He teaches Critical Criminology and Socio-legal Studies. He holds an LLM from the National University of La Plata (Argentina), an MA in the sociology of law from the Oñati International Institute for the Sociology of Law (Spain), and a PhD in sociology of law from University of the Basque Country. His articles have been published in Crime, Law and Social Change, Critical Criminology, the International Journal of Law in Context, the Asian Journal of Social Science, among others. He is interested in criminal courts, judicial reforms, police accountability, state violence, and critical socio-legal theory and methodology. George Radics is a lecturer in the Department of Sociology at the National University of Singapore. He teaches Law and Society, Selected Topics on Law and Justice, Sociology of Emotions, and Classical Sociological Theory. After receiving his PhD in sociology from the National University of Singapore (NUS), he earned a juris doctor with a concentration in Asian law from the University of Washington and worked for the Supreme Court of Guam for two years. He is a member of the New York Bar. His articles have been published in the Columbia Human Rights Law Review, Santa Clara Journal of International Law, Asian Journal of Social Science, and the Philippine Sociological Review. His work involves the judicial system, notions of justice, human rights, minorities, and comparative legal studies
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Subject Criminal law -- Developing countries
Criminal procedure -- Developing countries
Crime -- Developing countries
Criminal law (Islamic law) -- Developing countries
Human rights -- Developing countries
LAW -- Courts.
LAW -- Criminal Law -- General.
LAW -- Criminal Law -- Sentencing.
Crime
Criminal law
Criminal law (Islamic law)
Criminal procedure
Human rights
Developing countries
Form Electronic book
Author Ciocchini, Pablo Leandro, 1978- editor.
Radics, George Baylon, 1979- editor.
LC no. 2019020076
ISBN 9780429459764
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9780429861680
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9780429861697
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9780429861673
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