Poverty and the Law (eBook, PDF)

Redaktion: Robson, Peter; Kjønstad, Asbjorn

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

This collection of essays focuses attention on the global impact of legal policies on levels of poverty. They illustrate the distinct dimensions of poverty in a range of different political and cultural settings and also show how poverty is exacerbated by quite discrete local cultural factors in some instances. There is,nonetheless a universal element which runs through all the contributions. The fate of those who are disadvantaged in society depends crucially on their access to goods through the world of work. Thus gender, ethnic background or disability can result in individuals having a much higher chance of experiencing poverty than those outwith these groups and the success of these groups in achieving a measure of prosperity is bound up with a multiplicity of geographical and political factors. This book is part of the Oñati International Series in Law and Society.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks UK
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. April 2001
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781847313171
• Artikelnr.: 52991009

Autorenporträt

Peter Robson is Professor at the University of Strathclyde. Asbjorn Kjonstad is Professor of Law at the University of Oslo.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Poverty and the Law
Asbjørn Kjønstad and Peter Robson
INTRODUCTION
1. The Rights of the Poor: Conceptual Issues
Paul Spicker
THE EXPERIENCE OF POVERTY
2. The Law and the Poor: Institutional Support and Economic Need in Italy
Yuri Kazepov
3. Strategies for Police Accountability and Community Empowerment
Ross Hastings and R.P. Saunders
STRATEGIES TO CONFRONT POVERTY
4. Poverty, Social Exclusion and the Impact of Selected Legal Measures
against Caste Discrimination in South Asia
Kalinga Tudor Silva and Ajith Hettihewage
5. Disability and Poverty in the United Kingdom
Peter Robson and Nicola Loughran
ACCESS TO JUSTICE FOR THE POOR
6. The Development of the Notion of Poverty and the Equal Protection
Clauses: A Comparative Analysis of Italy and the United States
Antonella Mameli
7. Substantive Justice and Procedural Fairness in Social Security: The UK
Experience
Michael Adler
OVERVIEWS
8. The Rule of Law and Poverty Reduction: Some Issues
Hélène Grandvoinnet
9. An Army of Ideas: Marginalisation, Indigenous Rights and Civil Society
in Mexico since the Zapatista Rebellion
Camilo Perez-Bustillo