- Conflict Is Not Abuse
Overstating Harm, Community Responsibility, and the Duty of Repair
Resource Type: Book
From intimate relationships to global politics, Sarah Schulman observes a continuum: that inflated accusations of harm are used to avoid accountability. Illuminating the difference between Conflict and Abuse, Schulman directly addresses our contemporary culture of scapegoating.
- Connexions
Volume 9, Number 2 - Summer 1984 - Rights and Liberties - A Digest of Resources & Groups for Social
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1984
- Crime and Punishment in America
Why the Solutions to America's Most Stubborn Social Crisis Have Not Worked... and What Will
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1998
Currie explores why being 'tough on crime' will only serve to exacerbate the problem.
- The Humiliation of Bradley Manning
Kangaroos Missing
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2012
It is a bitter irony that Army Pvt. Bradley Manning, whose conscience compelled him to leak evidence about the U.S. military brass ignoring evidence of torture in Iraq, was himself the victim of cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment while other military officers privately took note but did nothing.
- The Mammoth and the Mouse
Microhistory and Morphology
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1997
Essays exploring the theoretical relationship between the microhistorical method of paying careful attention to revealing details and the morphological method of looking for homologies among cultural artifacts or texts from different places and times.
- Obama and the Boy in the Metal Box
The Incarceration of John Walker Lindh
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2010
Clemency for John Walker Lindh would open up to public scrutiny an outrageous injustice that high officials in the Bush administration deliberately perpetrated on an American citizen after the 9/11 attacks. It would expose how they covered up their illegalities by betraying the legal professionalism of the Justice Department and by imprisoning their victim behind prison walls for half his life.
- Stocks
Resource Type: Article
Stocks are devices used in the medieval times for torture, public humiliation, and corporal punishment. The stocks partially immobilized its victims and they were often exposed in a public place such as the site of a market to the scorn of those who passed by. Since the purpose was to punish offenders against the standards of conduct of the time anybody could assault, revile or aim filth at the victim.
- Touching
The Human Significance of the Skin
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1972
An analysis of the skin regarded as a sense organ rather than as a simple bodily covering.
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