Full Description
Criminalization: Politics and Policies offers an extensive examination of the complexities surrounding criminalization. It scrutinizes the interplay between politics, policies, and criminalization across various legal systems, advocating for a critical reassessment of criminal law's scope. The anthology provides valuable insights for scholars, policymakers, and concerned citizens.
Contents
Acknowledgments
Notes on Contributors
1 Criminalization: An Introduction
Chirag Balyan and Garima Pal
2 Politics of Criminalization
Sidharth Luthra and Shubhangni Jain
3 Spaces of Assessment and Incarceration
David McCallum
4 Evaluating Overcriminalization on the Basis of International Human Rights Law: The Example of Counterterrorism Legislation
Ekkehard Strauss
5 Criminalization: Reflection on Theories
Chirag Balyan
6 Criminalization and the Presumption of Innocence
Sébastien Lafrance
7 Democratic Erosion by Parochial Measures: A Study of Rising Criminalization of Free Speech in India
Yogesh Pratap Singh
8 The Jurisprudence of Constitutional Morality and the Pathologies of Criminalisation
Shruti Bedi
9 Drug Laws - The Reality and Politics of Overcriminalization
Alok Prasanna Kumar and Naveed Mehmood
10 The Concept of Overcriminalization in Russian Law
Daria V. Ponomareva
11 Overcriminalization by Containment without covid: Inside Kenya's Refugee Camps
Charles A. Khamala
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