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Published: 13 April 2021
... and the toxicity of the abject female body. These narratives amplify the oppressive tendencies of such discourses when considering both the comics on which they are based and their ultimate outcomes, which usually involve narrative punishment such as death, for the villainess. These characters indicate the ways...
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Issuing Fatwas on Killing an Apostate or a Blasphemer Weakens and Impairs (wahn) Islam
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Mohsen Kadivar
Published: 31 August 2020
...This chapter is the eighth section of Kadivar’s ‘Treatise on Refuting the Punishment for Blasphemy and Apostasy’.
There are two levels of impairing (wahn ) formulation for deccriminalization of apostasy and blasphemy: First, impairing (wahn ) Islam Means to Deface...
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The Incompatibility of Executing a Blasphemer or an Apostate with Explicit Qur’anic Verses
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Mohsen Kadivar
Published: 31 August 2020
...This chapter is the tenth section of Kadivar’s ‘Treatise on Refuting the Punishment for Blasphemy and Apostasy’.
According to the Qur’an, people are free to choose their religion. Islam gives other religions an official status after inviting their adherents to choose it, in the sense that some...
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The fourteenth- and fifteenth-century accounts of the battle of Manzikert
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Carole Hillenbrand
Published: 21 November 2007
... Byzantium Il Kafsut Mirkhwand Rawḍ at al ṣafā˒ fī sīrat al anbiyā˒ wa˒ l mulūk wa˒ l khulafāǒ cross symbol of Savtegin wind role of Abtegin Gawharaʾin Sa ʿd al Dawla Malik Arslan Malikshah Manzikert cup of Jamshid Jamshid cup of Persian Mongols Punishment Anti-Christian sentiment Rashid al...
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Published: 01 September 2018
... Marcuse Herbert Adorno Theodore dialectic non synchronicity spirit Geist Fichte J G Kant Immanuel law crime de actualisation regressive de actualisation discipline domination punishment regression substance ‘madness’ Malabou Catherine Pinkard Terry Pippin Robert Plato Philosophy...
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Published: 01 September 2018
... to violations of right. It shows that if criminality needs to be framed in terms of nature then so does punishment. If punishment functions to (re-)habituate transgressive persons, then one of its inherent risks is that it might operate as a brute externality, a natural force. In functioning as an external...
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A Human Right to a Fair Criminal Law
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Victor Tadros
Published: 31 October 2010
... Mandela N South Africa declaration of incompatibility punishment and human rights presumption of innocence Convention rights United States of America terrorism Fuller L polycentric issues breach of the peace asylum human rights fair criminal law institutions punishment A. What is a human...
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The Mental Element in Modern Criminal Law
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Peter Ferguson QC
Published: 31 October 2010
...The principle of mens rea is directed at answering any individual legal system's question: who deserves punishment? It is chiefly that point which is considered in this chapter in light of, first, recent judicial discussions of mens rea and its content, especially...
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Reveal or conceal: public humiliation and banishment as punishments in early Islamic times
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Everett K. Rowson
Published: 31 July 2009
...This chapter focuses on two forms of punishment during the early Umayyad period: public humiliation and banishment. These two forms of punishment are especially, although not exclusively, associated with offenses involving questions of gender and sex. They are also frequently paired despite...
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Published: 31 July 2009
... writings and were particularly acute in narratives highlighting the justice and punishment of kings. These historical narratives of the sultan demonstrate a structural problem in the legitimacy of the Delhi Sultanate. The question of who has the authority to issue the ultimate form of punishment, the death...
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The ‘Common Language’ of Justice
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Henrique Tavares Furtado
Published: 08 March 2022
...The first chapter offers a historical account of transitional justice’s ‘punishment vs impunity’ debates, from the prehistory of transitional justice in the 1970s to the formation of a ‘common language of justice’ at the turn of the century. First, the chapter recounts the rise of a global, anti...
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The Enclosure of Blame
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Henrique Tavares Furtado
Published: 08 March 2022
...This chapter advances the second part of the manuscript’s analysis of the CNV, focusing on the final report, published on 10 December 2014. It looks at the twenty-nine policy recommendations dividing them into five interrelated themes of punishment, demilitarisation, re-education, restitution...
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Published: 22 September 2021
...The term and the practice that underpins it as well as the legal regulations on both international and national levels have undergone significant transformation throughout the last centuries yet corporal punishment as a common tool of discipline in child-raising and educating processes that cuts...
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July 2008: Speaking Up for Children
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Kenneth McK Norrie
Published: 01 November 2011
... obligations. This commentary discusses that report from 2008, drawing attention in particular to the continued low age of criminal responsibility, the minimal protections against discrimination afforded children, and the continued legality of corporal punishment of children. United Nations Convention...
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Being Alone: Death, Solitude and the End of the World
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Charles Barbour
Published: 02 November 2017
... trace Austin J L Hägglund Martin Derrida Celan Heidegger Death Law Punishment At the end of the last chapter , we left Derrida saying, in effect, that every single death or end is the death or the end of everything – not the end of one particular world, but the end of the entire and only world...
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Child Protection through the Criminal Law
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Kenneth McK. Norrie
Published: 31 August 2020
... of the chapter explores the legal basis for the power of corporal punishment – the defence previously available to parents, teachers and some others to a charge of assault of a child, known as “reasonable” chastisement. Its gradual abolition from the 1980s to 2019 is described. plagium Hope Lord 1855 sexual...
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Cicero's Law: Rethinking Roman Law of the Late Republic
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Paul J. du Plessis (ed.)
Published online: 18 January 2018
Published in print: 01 October 2016
...Why did Roman prosecutors typically accuse the defendant of multiple crimina, when in most standing criminal courts the punishment imposed on a guilty defendant was the same (typically “capital,” that is, a kind of exile), no matter how many charges were proven? The answer lies not in a failure...
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Published online: 22 January 2015
Published in print: 30 May 2014
... construction and acted as ‘microcosms of modernity’ wherein many of the pressing questions of Ottoman modernity played out. These included administrative centralisation, the rationalisation of Islamic criminal law and punishment, issues of gender and childhood, prisoner rehabilitation, bureaucratic...
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Cairo’s legal system: institutions and actors
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James E. Baldwin
Published: 01 January 2017
... and associated officials, policing and punishments, Christian and Jewish courts, and the practice of mediation (ṣulḥ). The chapter portrays Cairo’s legal system as a complex network of overlapping forums and practices, in which jurisdictional boundaries were often obscure, and which offered litigants the ability...
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Spare the Rod: Campbell and Cosans v United Kingdom
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Kathleen Marshall
Published: 01 August 2010
...This chapter explores the Campbell and Cosans case involving Jane Cosans, mother of the fifteen-year-old Jeffrey Cosans, and Grace Campbell, mother of the six-year-old Gordon Campbell. Both women protested the use of corporal punishment as a disciplinary measure in their children's...