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9780761936657

Challenging the Rules(s) of Law : Colonialism, Criminology and Human Rights in India

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    9780761936657

  • ISBN10:

    0761936653

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2008-11-11
  • Publisher: SAGE Publications Pvt. Ltd

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This collection of essays 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. This collection is a significant step towards mapping the ways in which interdisciplinary research and human rights activism might inform legal praxis more effectively and holistically. The contributors are a diverse group ' widely respected activists, bureaucrats, scholars, and professionals ' who share concerns on criminal justice systems and the need to entrench human rights in the Indian polity.

Table of Contents

The Construction of Crime and Criminality
Laws of Metamorphosis: From Nomad to Offender
Victims and Villains: The Construction of Female Criminality in Colonial Calcutta
'That Despicable Specimen of Humanity': Policing of Homosexuality in India
Sexual Assault and the Law
Vulnerability, Governance and The Law
Social Exclusion and Criminal Law
Building a Subaltern Women's Perspective
Whose Life Is It Anyway?: Adivasi Communities and Entitlements to Life
Preserving Wellness and Personhood: A Psychosocial Approach to the Child
Legislating The 'other' and The 'extraordinaire'
Penal Strategies and Political Resistance in Colonial and Independent India
Communities, Gender and the Border: A Legal Narrative on India's North East
Parens Patriae: Exercising Patriarchal Prerogative in Post-Partition India
Social Ordering of The 'legal'
Law and Life in the State of Nature: Archiving Stories from Legal Literacy
Revisiting Impunity and Criminality: Of Corruption, Collusion, Consequences and Victims
Khap Panchayats in Haryana: Sites of Legal Pluralism
Human Rights and Criminal Jurisprudence
Crimes, Passion, and Detachment: Colonial Foundations of Rule of Law
Conspiracies of Association: Associational Offences, Associational Freedoms and the Rule of Law
Of Strong Medicine and Weak Stomachs: The Resort to Enhanced Punishment in Criminal Law in India
The Contexts of Criminology: A Brief Re-statement
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