The shackles of conviction
Author: James R. Meyer
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Published: 2008
Total Pages: 346
ISBN-13: 9781906706005
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Author: James R. Meyer
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Published: 2008
Total Pages: 346
ISBN-13: 9781906706005
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Published: 1994
Total Pages: 218
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Author: Rolando V. del Carmen
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2014-10-10
Total Pages: 279
ISBN-13: 1317524071
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe briefs in this edition provide accurate and concise coverage of topics of vital importance to criminal justice personnel — prison law, probation, parole, the death penalty, juvenile justice, and sentencing. Each chapter contains an introduction to the topic area, making the book more user-friendly and a better source of succinct legal information than before.
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Published: 1907
Total Pages: 1158
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Published: 1907
Total Pages: 1144
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: William Sturman Sax
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2015
Total Pages: 273
ISBN-13: 019027574X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKRituals combining healing with spirit possession and court-like proceedings are found around the world and throughout history. For example, a person suffers from an illness that cannot be cured, and in order to be healed he performs a ritual involving prosecution and defense, a judge and witnesses. Divine beings give evidence through human oracles, spirits possess their human victims and are exorcized, and local gods intervene to provide healing and justice. Such practices seem to be the very antithesis of modernity and many modern, secular states have systematically attempted to eliminate them. Why are such rituals largely absent from modern societies, and what happens to them when the state attempts to expunge them from their health and justice systems, or even to criminalize them? Despite the prevalence of rituals involving some or all of these elements, The Law of Possession represents the first attempt to compare and analyze them systematically. The volume brings together historical and contemporary case studies from East Asia, South Asia, and Africa, and argues that, despite consistent attempts by states to discourage, eliminate, and criminalize them, such rituals persist and even thrive because they meet widespread human needs.
Author: United States. Supreme Court
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Published: 2005-04
Total Pages: 704
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Published: 2004
Total Pages: 1150
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Published: 1915
Total Pages: 1978
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