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Wrongful Convictions of Women: When Innocence Isn’t EnoughMarvin D. Free, Jr., and Mitch Ruesink Choice Outstanding Academic Book!
Marvin Free and Mitch Ruesink reveal the distinctive role that gender dynamics so often play in the miscarriage of justice.
Examining more than 160 cases involving such charges as homicide, child abuse, and drug trafficking, the authors explore systemic failures in both policing and prosecution. They also highlight the More > | |
Wrongful Death Sentences: Rethinking Justice in Capital CasesCathleen Burnett What acts truly deserve the death penalty? And how equitably do we apply this ultimate punishment? Cathleen Burnett explores wrongful capital sentencing to offer a sober yet searing critique of the criminal justice procedures and legal criteria involved.
Highlighting problems such as the elicitation of false confessions, prosecutors who choose to ignore mitigating factors, and Supreme Court More > | |
Xi Jinping’s China: The Personal and the PoliticalStig Stenslie and Marte Kjær Galtung With steely determination, Xi Jinping has forged his way to absolute power at home, consolidated China's role as a global superpower, and promoted instrumental myths about his life. All the while, in many ways he has remained a mystery. Which is a problem, assert Stig Stenslie and Marte Kjær Galtung, because to understand China today, it is essential to understand Xi.
Who is he? What More > | |
Yambo Ouologuem: Postcolonial Writer, Islamic MilitantChristopher Wise, editor From the appearance of Bound to Violence in the late 1960s, Yambo Ouologuem has been one of Africa's most controversial writers. For some critics, the young Malian signaled an entire new direction for African letters: a fiercely courageous postindependence literature. For others, his novel revealed too much, bringing to light horrors many preferred to ignore. Today Ouologuem is credited with More > | |
YemenLaurence Deonna, translated by Corinne Borel Reportage and interviews by the first woman journalist allowed free access to the peoples and places of Yemen. Deonna offers both verbal and photographic images of this largely traditional society. Traveling from capital to village, from coast to desert, Deonna talks, and looks, and takes her pictures. She encounters kindness, courtesy, curiosity, and an ancient civilization, troubled, proud, but More > | |
Yoruba Hometowns: Community, Identity, and Development in NigeriaLillian Trager The pattern of migrants maintaining strong ties with their home communities is particularly common in sub-Saharan Africa, where it has important social, cultural, political, and economic implications. Lillian Trager explores the significance of hometown connections for civil society and local development in Nigeria. Rich ethnographic description and case studies illustrate the links that the Ijesa More > | |
Young Families: Gender, Sexuality, and CareNolwazi Mkhwanazi and Deevia Bhana, eds. The authors of Young Families present an unparalleled view of the realities of teenage pregnancy in South Africa.
Drawing on empirical data, multilevel approaches, and interdisciplinary perspectives on the dynamics that underpin young peoples' experiences of having and caring for a child, they explore the contexts in which young families are constituted and shaped, as well as the kinds of More > | |
Young Soldiers: Why They Choose To FightRachel Brett and Irma Specht They are part of rebel factions, national armies, paramilitaries, and other armed groups and entrenched in some of the most violent conflicts around the globe. They are in some ways still children?yet, from Afghanistan to Sierra Leone to Northern Ireland, you can find them among the fighters. Why?
Young Soldiers explores the reasons that adolescents who are neither physically forced nor abducted More > | |
Youth and Revolution in the Changing Middle East, 1908–2014Haggai Erlich Though there is much discussion of the role of youth in recent upheavals in the Middle East, there are few serious analyses of just what that role has been. Haggai Erlich sheds important light on this topic, focusing on the activism of educated young people in creating revolutionary change and the part played by higher education in shaping new generations of youth.
Moving from the nineteenth More > | |
Zheng He’s Voyages to Africa in the 15th Century: The Maritime Silk and Porcelain RoadLi Xinfeng, translated by Shelly Bryant Though it has been some six centuries since explorer Zheng He visited Africa, scholar Li Xinfeng finds connections between Zheng's voyages and China-Africa relations today.
Li discusses Zheng's travels at length, ranging from details of his ships and crews to the nature of the relationships that he forged. As he considers the explorer's legacy in the current global environment, he More > |