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050	0	0	_aHV6250 _b.M47 2016
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100	1		_aMerry, Sally Engle, _d1944- _eauthor.
245	1	4	_aSeductions of quantification : _bmeasuring human rights, gender violence, and sex trafficking / _cSally Engle Merry.
260			_aChicago : $b _bThe University of Chicago Press, _c2016.
300			_aviii, 249 pages ; _c24 cm
490	1		_aChicago series in law and society
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 225-242) and index.
505	0		_aA world of quantification -- Indicators as a technology of knowledge -- Measuring violence against women -- Categorizing violence against women: the cultural work of commensuration -- Measuring the unmeasurable: the US Trafficking in Persons Reports -- Knowledge effects and governance effects of the Trafficking in Persons Reports -- Human rights indicators: translating law into policy -- Conclusions.
520			_a"With The Seductions of Quantification, leading legal anthropologist Sally Engle Merry investigates the techniques by which information is gathered and analyzed in the production of global indicators on human rights, gender violence, and sex trafficking. Although such numbers convey an aura of objective truth and scientific validity, Merry argues persuasively that measurement systems constitute a form of power by incorporating theories about social change in their design but rarely explicitly acknowledging them. For instance, the US State Department's Trafficking in Persons Report, which ranks countries in terms of their compliance with antitrafficking activities, assumes that prosecuting traffickers as criminals is an effective corrective strategy -- overlooking cultures where women and children are frequently sold by their own families. As Merry shows, indicators are indeed seductive in their promise of providing concrete knowledge about how the world works, but they are implemented most successfully when paired with context-rich qualitative accounts grounded in local knowledge."--Amazon.com.
650		0	_aWomen _xViolence against _xResearch _zUnited States _xMethodology.
650		0	_aHuman trafficking _xResearch _zUnited States _xMethodology.
650		0	_aWomen _xViolence against _xData processing.
650		0	_aHuman trafficking _xData processing.
650		0	_aQuantitative research.
650		0	_aSocial indicators.
650		0	_aNumerical analysis _xData processing.
650		7	_aNumerical analysis _xData processing. _2fast
650		7	_aQuantitative research. _2fast
650		7	_aSocial indicators. _2fast
650		7	_aMethods, techniques and organization of social science research.
651		7	_aUnited States. _2fast
776	0	8	_iEbook version : _z9780226261317
830		0	_aChicago series in law and society.
942			_2lcc _cBOOK