Evil, law and the state : perspectives on state power and violence / edited by John T. Parry.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Parry, John T., 1964-

Series:

At the Interface / Probing the Boundaries ; 24.

At the Interface / Probing the Boundaries ; 24

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Political atrocities--Congresses.

Political atrocities.

Political violence--Government policy--Congresses.

Political violence.

State-sponsored terrorism--Congresses.

State-sponsored terrorism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (228 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam ; New York : Rodopi, 2006.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The topic of "evil" means different things depending upon context. For some, it is an archaic term, while others view it as a central problem of ethics, psychology, or politics. Coupled with state power, the problem of evil takes on a special salience for most observers. When governments do evil -in whatever way we define the term - the scale of harm increases, sometimes exponentially. The evils of state violence, then, demand our attention and concern. Yet the linkage of evil with state power does not resolve the underlying question of how to understand the concepts that we invoke when we use the term. Instead, the question becomes what evil means in the context of and in relation to state power. The fifteen essays in this book bring multiple perspectives to bear on the problems of state-sponsored evil and violence, and on the ways in which law enables or responds to them. The approaches and conclusions articulated by the various contributors sometimes complement and sometimes stand in tension with each other, but as a whole they contribute to our ongoing effort to understand the characteristics and workings of state power, and our need to grapple with the harm it causes.

Contents:

Introduction

John T. PARRY: Pain, Interrogation, and the Body: State Violence and the Law of Torture

Fernando PURCELL: "Too Many Foreigners for My Taste": Law, Race and Ethnicity in California, 1848-1852

Shani D'CRUZE: Protection, Harm and Social Evil: The Age of Consent, c. 1885-c. 1940

Ruth A. MILLER: Sin, Scandal, and Disaster: Politics and Crime in Contemporary Turkey

İştar GÖZAYD1N: Adding Injury To Injury: The Case of Rape and Prostitution in Turkey

Dani FILC and Hadas ZIV: Exception as the Norm and the Fiction of Sovereignty: The Lack of the Right to Health Care in the Occupied Territories

Alban BURKE: Mental Health Care During Apartheid in South Africa: An Illustration of How "Science" Can be Abused

Rui ZHU: Schistosomiasis and Capital Marxism

Elena A. BAYLIS: The Inevitable Impunity of Suicide Terrorists

Douglas J. SYLVESTER: The Lessons of Nuremberg and the Trial of Saddam Hussein

Kirsten AINLEY: Responsibility for Atrocity: Individual Criminal Agency and the International Criminal Court

Roberto BUONAMANO: Humanity and Inhumanity: State Power and the Force of Law in the Prescription of Juridical Norms

Vincent LUIZZI: New Balance, Evil, and the Scales of Justice

Jody LYNEÉ MADEIRA: The Execution as Sacrifice

Bram IEVEN: Legitimacy and Violence: On the Relation between Law and Justice According to Rawls and Derrida

Notes on Contributors.

Notes:

"Papers presented at a conference on Evil, Law, and the State, held at Mansfield College, Oxford in July 2004."P. [ix].

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

94-012-0184-6

1-4237-8757-9

OCLC:

714567265

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789401201841 DOI