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Police forces in Latin America historically have been regarded as hopelessly corrupt, inefficient, and even abusive. More recently, however, there have been clear signs that police reforms have gained traction in the region - with some notable exceptions. The authors of this book explore the scope of the reforms that have been enacted in a diverse group of countries, their impact on police-society relations, and perhaps most important, how sustainable they are proving to be in the current climate of democratic decline.

The cryptic figure of the cinaedus recurs in both the literature and daily life of the Roman world. His afterlife – the equally cryptic catamite – appears to be well and alive as late as Victorian England. But who was the cinaedus ? Should we think of a real group of individuals, or is the term but a scare name to keep at bay any form of threating otherness? This book, the first coherent collection of essays on the topic, addresses the matter and fleshes out the complexity of a debate that concerns not only Roman cinaedi but the foundations of our theoretical approach to the study of ancient sexuality

Set in Colonial Northern Nigeria, this book confronts a paradox: the state insisted on its separation from religion even as it governed its multireligious population through what remained of the precolonial caliphate. Entangled Domains grapple with this history to offer a provocative account of secularism as a contested yet contingent mode of governing religion and religious difference. Drawing on detailed archival research, Rabiat Akande vividly illustrates constitutional struggles triggered by the colonial state's governance of religion and interrogates the legacy of that governance agenda in the postcolonial state. This book is a novel commentary on the dynamic interplay between law, faith, identity, and power in the context of the modern state's emergence from colonial processes

Dem philosophischen Neukantianismus wird gemeinhin ein starker Einfluss auf die zeitgenössische Rechtswissenschaft bescheinigt. Die Reihe der angeblichen Neukantianer im Strafrecht reicht von Gustav Radbruch bis zu Edmund Mezger, diejenige der als neukantianisch geprägt geltenden Lehrstücke von der Entdeckung der normativen Tatbestandsmerkmale über die Materialisierung des Rechtswidrigkeitsbegriffs bis zum normativen Schuldverständnis. Ungeklärt ist bislang jedoch, ob die Strafrechtler nur mit dem Neukantianismus assoziierte Begriffe verwendet oder ob sie darüber hinaus auch die Tiefenstruktur des philosophischen Neukantianismus rezipiert haben. Der Sammelband beantwortet diese Frage, indem er personen- mit sachbezogenen sowie wirkungsgeschichtlichen Analysen kombiniert und so genuin philosophische Einflüsse auf das Strafrechtsdenken der Zeit von primär innerdogmatischen Fragestellungen und Begründungstraditionen abschichtet. Auf diese Weise trägt er zur Erhellung der begründungstheoretischen Tiefenstruktur einer zentralen Epoche des neueren deutschen Strafrechtsdenkens bei

Der Erste Weltkrieg war der bislang umfangreichste Krieg der Geschichte. Was waren die Ursachen für diesen Krieg? Sind die Großmächte in den Krieg hineingeschlittert? War er ein Unfall, ein Versehen, oder gab es Kräfte, die diesen Krieg gewollt haben? -- In der offiziellen Darstellung der deutschen Regierung befand sich Deutschland in einem Verteidigungskrieg. Der Autor hinterfragt diese Darstellung und diskutiert die Rolle einflussreicher Kräfte im Kaiserreich, die mit dem Krieg womöglich annexionistische Kriegsziele verfolgten. Gleichermaßen wird die Bedeutung des Ersten Weltkriegs für nachfolgende Ereignisse in der Geschichte des 20. Jahrhunderts untersucht. Auf welche Weise prägte er die antisemitische Ideologie des Nationalsozialismus? War auch der Nationalsozialismus ein Ergebnis des Ersten Weltkrieges? Welche Verbindungslinien lassen sich zum Zweiten Weltkrieg ziehen? Bereits in »Mein Kampf« hatte Hitler einen weiteren Krieg als unvermeidlich bezeichnet. -- Die sozialdemokratischen und sozialistischen Parteien Europas haben auf ihren internationalen Konferenzen wiederholt beschlossen, sich mit allen zur Verfügung stehenden Mitteln gegen den drohenden Krieg zu stellen. Waren derartige Bestrebungen von vornherein zum Scheitern verurteilt oder gab es doch Chancen, den Krieg zu verhindern?

Chapter 1. Introduction -- Part I -- Chapter 2. Production Economics and Economic Efficiency (Mónica Meireles) -- Chapter 3. Data Envelopment Analysis: A Review and Synthesis (Ana S. Camanho) -- Chapter 4. Stochastic Frontier Analysis: A Review and Synthesis (Mara Madaleno) -- Part II -- Chapter 5. Combining Directional Distances and ELECTRE Multicriteria Decision Analysis for Preferable Assessments of Efficiency (Thyago Nepomuceno) -- Chapter 6. Benefit-of-the-Doubt Composite Indicators and use of Weight Restrictions (Ana S. Camanho) -- Chapter 7. Multidirectional Dynamic Inefficiency Analysis: An Extension to Include Corporate Social Responsibility (Magdalena Kapelko) -- Chapter 8. Stochastic DEA (Samah Jradi) -- Chapter 9. Internal Benchmarking for Efficiency Evaluations using Data Envelopment Analysis: A Review of Applications and Directions for Future Research (Fabio Sartori Piran) -- Part III -- Chapter 10. Recent Advances in the Construction of Nonparametric Stochastic Frontier Models (Christopher F. Parmeter) -- Chapter 11. A Hierarchical Panel Data Model for the Estimation of Stochastic Metafrontiers: Computational Issues and an Empirical Application (Christine Amsler) -- Chapter 12. Robustness in Stochastic Frontier Analysis (Alexander D. Stead) -- Chapter 13. Is it MOLS or COLS? (Christopher F. Parmeter) -- Chapter 14. Stochastic Frontier Analysis with Maximum Entropy Estimation (Pedro Macedo).

The Annotated Constitution of Japan: A Handbook for the first time makes the entirety of Japan's constitution accessible in English. The book consists of a historical and contextual overview of how the constitution came into being, followed by descriptions of each of its 103 articles; the meaning of the text, interpretive disputes, academic theories and leading cases arising under them. The book also points out the many subtle distinctions between the English version and the Japanese, some of which arose from the charter's unique provenance. With contributors representing a broad range of expertise in various areas of Japanese law, the book is written to appeal to academics, students and general readers alike. It is intended to be the first port of call for anyone needing to understand the fundamentals of Japanese constitutional law, whether from the perspective of Japanese studies, comparative law, or political science, but unable to access the text and related literature available in Japanese. Key reference documents in English and Japanese are included as appendices for ease of reference

This text provides original evidence arguing for dignity as an indicator of public health, by offering a scientific framework for measuring dignity and its social determinants. Hitlin and Andersson show that dignity can be efficiently measured by using simple survey items that ask individuals whether there is 'dignity' in their life or in how they are treated by others.

Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Chapter 1: Introduction:Women's Songs in a Patriarchal Society -- Chapter 2: A Theoretical Framework for the Analysis of Women's Songs -- Chapter 3: Popular Songs in African Contexts: An Overview of the Literature -- Chapter 4: The Performance Settings of the Zwelibomvu Women's Songs -- Chapter 5: Gender and Power in Contemporary Women's Songs -- Chapter 6: Composition and Circulation of Contemporary Women's Songs -- Chapter 7: Conclusion: Bahlabelelelani-ke - Why Then, Do They Sing? -- Appendix -- Select Bibliography -- Index.