2. The moral status of animals
David DeGrazia
in Animal Rights: A Very Short Introduction
Increasingly, people claim that animals have moral status, moral rights, or both. What does this mean? To say that a cat has moral status is to say that the cat has moral importance in her ...
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6. Child abuse
Jonathan Herring
in Family Law: A Very Short Introduction
‘Child abuse’ examines this extremely emotive and hotly debated area of family law. The law is able to remove a child from a situation where abuse is suspected, but this is a power that ...
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4. Rights and justice
Raymond Wacks
in Philosophy of Law: A Very Short Introduction (2nd edn)
‘Rights and justice’ asks: What is a right? Is there a distinction between my rights as recognized by the law, and rights that I believe I ought to have? It examines the two major theories ...
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5. Data protection
Raymond Wacks
in Privacy: A Very Short Introduction (2nd edn)
The routine functions of government and private institutions require a continual supply of data about us in order to administer effectively the many services that are an integral part of ...
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6. Rights
Christian Reus-Smit
in International Relations: A Very Short Introduction
‘Rights’ begins by explaining the centrality of rights to all configurations of political authority, the nature of individual rights (and in turn human rights), and the role individual ...
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3. Human rights foreign policy and the role of the United Nations
Andrew Clapham
in Human Rights: A Very Short Introduction (2nd edn)
How are human rights put into practice? What does it mean when governments announce that their foreign policy is concerned with promoting and protecting human rights? Where is the ...
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8. Discrimination and equality
Andrew Clapham
in Human Rights: A Very Short Introduction (2nd edn)
‘Discrimination and equality’ considers the prohibited grounds of discrimination (based on age, sexuality, religion, nationality, gender, and disability); what new grounds may be emerging; ...
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4. Freedom and the limits of government
David Miller
in Political Philosophy: A Very Short Introduction
‘Freedom and the limits of government’ asks whether there is a realm of human freedom that must be kept beyond the reach of politics, and in which government must categorically not ...
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5. In and out of prison
Julian V. Roberts
in Criminal Justice: A Very Short Introduction
‘In and out of prison’ considers the state of prisons today; the typical prison population; the crimes that result in imprisonment; the costs of imprisonment; the process of release and the ...
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6. Hearing the crime victim?
Julian V. Roberts
in Criminal Justice: A Very Short Introduction
Within the traditional adversarial model of justice, the victim often serves as the principal prosecution witness and, having served this function, plays no further part in criminal ...
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Ethics: A Very Short Introduction
Simon Blackburn
Our self-image as moral, well-behaved creatures is dogged by scepticism, relativism, hypocrisy, and nihilism, by the fear that in a Godless world science has unmasked us as creatures fated ...
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Some ethical ideas
Simon Blackburn
in Ethics: A Very Short Introduction
As our technologies of control increase, so do the new questions
about how to use them. ‘Some ethical ideas’ examines such issues as abortion, rights, and euthanasia, and explores how an ...
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2. The politics of trust
John Dunn
in Locke: A Very Short Introduction
‘The Politics of Trust’ considers the nature of political authority. Locke initially feared any challenge to the authority of a monarch, because of the danger of disorder, but eventually ...
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9. Second-wave feminism: the late 20th century
Margaret Walters
in Feminism: A Very Short Introduction
‘Second-wave feminism: the late 20th century’ covers women's activism after the Second World War in several countries. The importance of the writings of women theorists, campaigners and ...
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3. Dworkin: the moral integrity of law
Raymond Wacks
in Philosophy of Law: A Very Short Introduction (2nd edn)
Ronald Dworkin was legal positivism's most tenacious critic. ‘Dworkin: the moral integrity of law’ shows that Dworkin's theory includes not only a stimulating account of law and the legal ...
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8. Ethics
Damien Keown
in Buddhism: A Very Short Introduction (2nd edn)
‘Ethics’ explores the moral aspects of Buddhism. Buddhists live in accordance with the Dharma: a universal law of both physical and moral order. Dharma is manifest in the law of karma. ...
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8. Security
David J. Bodenhamer
in The U.S. Constitution: A Very Short Introduction
Armed conflict poses an imminent threat to the nation’s existence, but so does suspension of the nation’s fundamental laws. The framers wrestled with how to grant government the power to ...
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6. Refugees and asylum-seekers
Khalid Koser
in International Migration: A Very Short Introduction (2nd edn)
Asylum-seekers are those who have applied for international protection. Asylum status is still governed by the 1951 United Nations Convention relating to the Status of Refugees. ‘Refugees ...
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3. Multilingualism, myth, and controversies
John C. Maher
in Multilingualism: A Very Short Introduction
Analysing people’s beliefs about language is important for education and for our common understanding about how language works. ‘Multilingualism, myth, and controversies’ considers six ...
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6. Constitutional revolutions: America, France, Europe (1830 and 1848), and Meiji Japan
Jack A. Goldstone
in Revolutions: A Very Short Introduction
‘Constitutional revolutions: America, France, Europe (1830 and 1848), and Meiji Japan’ describes the growing skepticism and secularism of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries that led ...
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