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Автор: Wahl Rachel
Название: Just Violence: Torture and Human Rights in the Eyes of the Police
ISBN: 1503601013 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781503601017
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
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Police who engage in torture are condemned by human rights activists, the media, and people across the world who shudder at their brutality. Stark revelations about torture by American forces at places like Guantanamo Bay have stoked a fascination with torture and debates about human rights. Yet despite this interest, the public knows little about the officers who actually commit such violence. How do the police understand what they do? How do their beliefs inform their responses to education and activism against torture?

Just Violence reveals the moral perspective of perpetrators and how they respond to human rights efforts. Through interviews with law enforcers in India, Rachel Wahl uncovers the beliefs that motivate officers who use and support torture, and how these beliefs shape their responses to international human rights norms. Although on the surface Indian officers' subversion of human rights may seem to be a case of "local culture" resisting global norms, officers see human rights as in keeping with their religious and cultural traditions—and view Western countries as the primary human rights violators. However, the police do not condemn the United States for violations; on the contrary, for Indian police, Guantanamo Bay justifies torture in New Delhi. This book follows the attempts of human rights workers to both persuade and coerce officers into compliance. As Wahl explains, current human rights strategies can undermine each other, leaving the movement with complex dilemmas regarding whether to work with or against perpetrators.

Автор: Wahl Phoebe
Название: Sonya`s Chickens
ISBN: 1770497897 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781770497894
Издательство: Random House (USA)
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Описание: Over the past few years the field of group-based cryptography has attracted attention from both group theorists and cryptographers. The new techniques inspired by algorithmic problems in non-commutative group theory and their complexity have offered promising ideas for developing new cryptographic protocols. The papers in this volume cover algorithmic group theory and applications to cryptography.

Автор: Maj Sj?wall and Per Wahl??
Название: Man on the Balcony, The
ISBN: 000724293X ISBN-13(EAN): 9780007242931
Издательство: HarperCollins UK
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Описание: Someone is killing young girls in the once-peaceful parks of Stockholm - killing them after having his own way with them. The people of Stockholm are tense and fearful. Police Superintendent, Martin Beck has two witnesses: a cold-blooded mugger who won`t say much and a three-year-old boy who can`t say much.

Автор: Maj Sj?wall and Per Wahl??
Название: Laughing Policeman, The
ISBN: 0007242948 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780007242948
Издательство: HarperCollins UK
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Описание: On a cold and rainy Stockholm night, nine bus riders are gunned down by an unknown assassin. The press, anxious for an explanation for the seemingly random crime, quickly dubs him a madman. But Martin Beck of the Homicide Squad suspects otherwise: this apparently motiveless killer has managed to target one of Beck`s best detectives.