...Sunila S. Kale Abstract The subjects of crime and corruption remain perennially important for social scientists concerned with the nature of power, authority, and order. Steven Pierce's Moral Economies of Corruption: State Formation and Political Culture in Nigeria and Milan Vaishnav's When Crime...

...Milan Vaishnav Abstract The review essays by Sunila S. Kale, Sandipto Dasgupta, and Michael J. Watts on Milan Vaishnav's When Crime Pays: Money and Muscle in Indian Politics and Steven Pierce's Moral Economies of Corruption: State Formation and Political Culture in Nigeria raise a number...

... many debates and controversies revolve. By focusing on the “special” nature not only of sexual crime but also of suffering as a result of it, I argue that genuine compensation for the victims of structural and catastrophic violence can be sought only when 1) one steps outside the framework of modesty...

...Steven Pierce Abstract The commentaries in this Kitabkhana on Milan Vaishnav's When Crime Pays and Steven Pierce's Moral Economies of Corruption provide ample food for thought about the social-scientific study of crime and corruption. All agree on the importance of focusing on actual practice...

... homeless and underclass people, victims of honor crimes, disowned members of blood families, premature babies, and more recently, unaccompanied refugees. They also contain the bodies of political detainees who have been “disappeared” under police interrogation and state violence, along with radical...

...Suren Pillay In 1965 apartheid was declared a crime against humanity. Taking apartheid as a moment in the career of colonial law in South Africa, Pillay’s essay considers the political effects of a debate among a section of South Africa’s liberal critics. It hinged on whether or not to work within...

... and the people who work and reside there are continuously abjected by civil society's propertied classes, which view them with anxiety and loathing, as a source of crime, nuisance and detriment. Thus, “waste” as concept-matter but also a locus where labor and ecology meet is a neglected but powerful site...

... Crime Pays —demonstrate that to make sense of that paradox, one needs to go beyond the dominant legal/technocratic understanding of corruption as either private acts of illegality or failures of the civic democratic process. Thinking further with the insights offered by those books, the article sugg...

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... ambitious article on honor crimes, legal maybe because, of its absence from historical re- scholar Lama Abu Odeh argues that women’s virgin- cords. Due to customary law, authors of such studies ity and honor crimes play a central role in the pro- argue, many cases of illicit sex did not reach the duction...

... pertaining to women and offenses of the police officers and others who the poor to examine why the legal machinery is collaborated in covering up the crime. Deputy increasingly unable to guarantee democratic rights. Inspector General K. V. Joseph and I were appointed to The case of the tribal...

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... to affect the law's development in largely negative ways. Copyright © 2020 by Duke University Press 2020 Islamophobia material support terrorism prosecutions Around five years ago, my book Crimes of Terror: The Legal and Political Implications of Federal Terrorism Prosecutions was published...

...) and as part of a keynote session at the twenty-fifth anniversary conference of the British Association of South Asian Studies (Southampton, April 11–13, 2011). An earlier version of this essay was published as “Crime and Punishment: Laws of Seduction, Consent, and Rape in Bangladesh” in SocialDifference...