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The Open Society and Its Closed Communities
2021 || Hardcover || Afshin Ellian e.a. || Eleven international publishing
In the aftermath of the Second World War,
Karl Popper introduced his concept of the
“open society”. Poppers focussed primarily
on communism and fascism. Nowadays,
communism and fascism have faded
away as the primary challenges for open,
democratic states, but new challenges have
come to the fore. Closed communities pose
a significant challenge and sometimes a
threat to democratic values. What are those
closed communities? This book presents
a diagnosis of those closed communit...
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Hungarian Yearbook of International Law and European Law 2021
2021 || Hardcover || Marcel Szabó e.a. || Eleven international publishing
The Hungarian Yearbook of International Law and European Law comprises a collection of articles written mainly by Hungarian authors, covering developments in the field of international law and EU law, and progress in the domestic implementation and application of these fields of law. The thematic chapter of Vol. 9 (2021), entitled ‘Public Health Emergency: National, European and International Law Responses’, tackles different legal aspects related to dealing with the consequences of COVID...
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'Walking the extra mile'
How governance networks attract International Organizations to Geneva, The Hague, Vienna, and Copenhagen (1995-2015)
2022 || Hardcover || Rosa Groen || Eleven international publishing
It is August 26, 2015. A crucial day during the Conference of State Parties in Cancún, Mexico. 67 of the 69 member states of the Arms Trade Treaty vote for a location of the new Secretariat. Three candidate host states and their cities are bidding: Austria (Vienna), Switzerland (Geneva), and Trinidad and Tobago (Port of Spain). In the first round, Port of Spain wins with 32 votes, Geneva gets 21, and Vienna drops out with 14 votes. The second round, Geneva gets 35, scooping up all of Vienna...
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Juvenile Delinquency and Rehabilitation
Examining the Good Lives Model
2023 || Hardcover || Colinda Serie || Eleven international publishing
The Good Lives Model is an upcoming theoretical rehabilitation framework that is used increasingly in juvenile offender rehabilitation. This book provides in-depth knowledge about the Good Lives Model, its underlying theories, and how it differs from traditional rehabilitation methods. Furthermore it helps to gain a better understanding of the underlying causes of criminal behavior in juveniles, and the challenges they face in reintegrating into society. It combines state-of-the art theoretic...
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Shareholder Democracy
analysis of shareholder involvement in corporate policies
2016 || Hardcover || M. Olaerts e.a. || Eleven international publishing
This book deals with the topic of shareholder democracy from a comparative point of view. Shareholders have important rights which they can exercise democratically at the general meeting. They have the power to control and supervise management of the company. The term shareholder democracy relates to the different ways in which shareholders can influence or even determine a company's course of life. One of the disadvantages of shareholder democracy is a risk that most democratic systems face ...
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Facing the Past
Policies and Good Practices for Responses to Illegal Intercountry Adoptions
2024 || Hardcover || Elvira Loibl e.a. || Eleven international publishing
In a growing number of countries, inquiries into past intercountry adoptions take place that identify systemic abuses and irregularities and conclude that adoption stakeholders encouraged or facilitated illegal intercountry adoptions. However, so far, the response from these stakeholders has been inadequate in addressing the profound human rights violations endured by those affected by illegal adoptions. Despite the growing movement of adoptees advocating for justice on behalf of themselves a...
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Arranging Resilience
The role of social actors in preventing violent extremism
2021 || Hardcover || William Stephens || Eleven international publishing
Increasingly, teachers, youth workers, and social workers are being called on to ‘build resilience to radicalisation’. But, what does this actually mean? What is resilience to radicalisation, how can it be built, and whose role is it?
Drawing on an interdisciplinary analysis of policies and the perspectives of practitioners themselves, this book offers a fresh look at these questions. Through unpacking different ways of thinking about resilience to radicalisation, this book aims to bring ...
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Mental Health and Crinlnal Justice / Santé mentale et justice pénale
International and Domestic Perspectives on Defendants and Detainees with Mental Illness / Perspectives internationales et nationales sur les prévenus et les détenus atteints de maladie mentale
2022 || Hardcover || P.H.P.H.M.C. van Kempen e.a. || Eleven international publishing
More than 10.74 million people globally are detained in penal institutions. An estimated 40% to 90% of these detainees suffer from mental illness. This makes the prevalence of mental disorder in detainees extremely high compared with the general population (18% to 29%). As a consequence, defendants and detainees with mental illness are not ‘yet another vulnerable group’ that should be ‘taken into account’ in developing laws and policies On the contrary, they are a dominant force and t...
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Legitimate by Nature?
Examining the Legitimisation Activities Implemented by the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda
2022 || Hardcover || Claire M.H. Boost || Eleven international publishing
International crimes cause widespread victimisation and destruction, leading to social disruption that may take generations to repair. Over the years, the international community has established international courts to end the culture of impunity in relation to such crimes and to enforce a culture of accountability. A critical success factor for these courts is to ensure that they are perceived as legitimate in post-conflict societies.
Established after the 1994 genocide against the Tutsi eth...
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Blaming the Addicted Brain
Building bridges between criminal law and neuroscientific perspectives on addiction
2022 || Hardcover || Anna Elisabeth Goldberg || Eleven international publishing
Addiction is pervasively present within the criminal justice sector, resulting in legal professionals regularly dealing with addicted defendants. Yet addiction is a complex and heterogeneous phenomenon, resulting in controversies regarding its conceptualisation, and thus difficulties in addressing addiction-related crime in court. Over the last decades, addiction has increasingly been conceptualised as a brain disease, which arguably could alter the law’s current approach towards the crimin...