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Klappentext This rare comprehensive critique of criminology in India brings together widely respected activists! advocates! bureaucrats! scholars and practitioners who share their concerns about the Indian criminal justice system through an interdisciplinary lens and discuss the need to entrench human rights in Indian polity. It is a significant step towards mapping the ways in which interdisciplinary research and human rights activism might inform legal praxis more effectively and holistically.Challenging the Rule(s) of Law: Colonialism! Criminology and Human Rights in India contests unproblematic assumptions of the rule of law and opens out avenues for a renewed and radical study of criminal law in the country. The collection looks at the problem of criminal law from the early colonial period to the present! examining the problem of overt violence by state actors and their compliance with dominant private actors. It calls into question the denial by the state of the wherewithal for bare life! which compounds people's vulnerability to a repressive rule of law.This work is a must read for students! researchers and faculty of Law! Criminal Law! Criminology! Legal History! Human Rights! Sociology of Law and Colonial History. It will also be invaluable for law historians! legal scholars and policy makers! especially the judiciary. The book is a serious attempt at a critical assessment of the theory and practice of the rule of law, criminology and human rights in India…. This volume is a solid contribution to the study of criminology, criminal law, criminal justice and human rights in India and should be of great interest to scholars and activists in the field. Zusammenfassung A collection of important findings which re-examine the field of criminology and law in India. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction - Kalpana Kannabiran and Ranbir SinghI THE CONSTRUCTION OF CRIME AND CRIMINALITY Laws of Metamorphosis: From Nomad to Offender - Meena RadhakrishnaVictims and Villains: The Construction of Female Criminality in Colonial Calcutta - Sumanta Banerjee'That Despicable Specimen of Humanity': Policing of Homosexuality in India - Arvind NarrainSexual Assault and the Law - Kalpana KannabiranII. VULNERABILITY! GOVERNANCE AND THE LAW Social Exclusion and Criminal Law - S.R. SankaranBuilding a Subaltern Women's Perspective - Jayshree P. Mangubhai & Aloysius Irudayam S.J. Whose Life Is It Anyway?: Adivasi Communities and Entitlements to Life - Seema Misra Preserving Wellness and Personhood: A Psychosocial Approach to the Child - Shekhar Seshadri and Kaveri I. Haritas III. LEGISLATING THE 'OTHER' AND THE 'EXTRAORDINAIRE' Penal Strategies and Political Resistance in Colonial and Independent India - Ujjwal Kumar SinghCommunities! Gender and the Border: A Legal Narrative on India's North East - Paula Banerjee Parens Patriae: Exercising Patriarchal Prerogative in Post-Partition India - Ritu Menon IV. SOCIAL ORDERING OF THE 'LEGAL' Law and Life in the State of Nature: Archiving Stories from Legal Literacy - Abha Singhal JoshiRevisiting Impunity and Criminality: Of Corruption! Collusion! Consequences and Victims - Vijay K. NagarajKhap Panchayats in Haryana: Sites of Legal Pluralism - K. S. Sangwan V. HUMAN RIGHTS AND CRIMINAL JURISPRUDENCE...
