Law and society, sociology of law

What remains anti-democratic in our criminal justice systems, and where does it come from?

Worker Injury Third Party Cases: Recognizing and Proving Liability is a practical resource that helps lawyers and others identify viable third party theories of liability in worker injury cases.

A study guide on evidence law must start with the basic concepts of discovery and progress step by step to advanced concepts.

Do you know that the word "e;evidence"e; holds different meanings depending on the discipline you're using it in?

This special issue asks what role society can play in the regulation of transnational risks, as an alternative to or at least significant addition to reliance on state regulatory activity and the myth of the self-regulatory capacity of markets (Stiglitz, 2001, p.

This volume of "e;Studies in Law, Politics, and Society"e; contains an international and interdisciplinary array of legal scholarship.

Since 1979 Research in Law and Economics has been presenting original research that explores the extent to which the constraints of law explain economic behavior and the role of economics in forming the law.

"e;The articles in this volume of Studies in Law, Politics, and Society cover an exciting and diverse range of topics relating to law's relationship with and impact on society.

This comprehensive yet accessible resource provides readers with everything they need to know about intersex - people who are born with any range of sex characteristics that might not fit typical binary notions about male and female bodies.

This special issue of Studies in Law, Politics and Society focuses on law and the liberal state; presenting an interdisciplinary and multifaceted approach to analysis of law and liberty.

Studies in Law, Politics, and Society (SLPS) provides a vehicle for the publication of scholarly articles within the broad parameters of interdisciplinary legal scholarship; the articles in this volume cover a diverse range of topics relating to law's relationship with and impact on society.

The book provides a critical analysis of EU law-making policy on the confiscation of the proceeds of crime, using a minimalist restorative approach to justice focused on the rights of victims and communities, and more proactive roles for all participants in confiscation procedures.

This book provides an interdisciplinary examination of the relationship between compromise and democracy.

Public mistrust of those in authority and failings of public organisations frame disputes over attribution of responsibility between individuals and systems.

This book asks how we should make sense of sentencing when, despite huge efforts world-wide to analyse, critique and reform it, it remains an enigma.

This volume explores the continuous line from informal and unrecorded practices all the way up to illegal and criminal practices, performed and reproduced by both individuals and organisations.

This book critically examines the last few decades of discussion around sex and violence in the media, on social media, in the courtroom and through legislation.

This book explores the nature and impact of stalking and criminal justice system responses to this type of abuse based on the experiences and lived realities of victims.

Intimate Partner Violence is a serious social problem affecting millions in the United States and worldwide.

This book seeks to explain why the concept of justice is critical to the study of criminal justice.

This book seeks to persuade policy-makers and legislators of the need for legislative reform of the ombudsman sector, and to evidence the ways in which such reformative legislation can be designed.

This book focuses on applied behavior analysis (ABA) treatment of violence and aggression in persons with neurodevelopmental disabilities.

Is prostitution immoral?

In light of ongoing concerns about the treatment of survivors, Rape Trials in England and Wales critically examines court responses to rape and sexual assault.

This book argues that past inattentive treatment by state criminal justice agencies in relation to domestic abuse is now being self-consciously reversed by neoliberal governing agendas intent on denouncing crime and holding offenders to account.

This volume explores the role that European institutions have come to play in regulating national prisons systems.

This book provides an authoritative overview of the contemporary phenomenon widely labelled as 'acid attacks'.

This book examines the relationship between law and scientific advancement, with a particular focus on the theory of evolution and medical innovation.

This book uniquely combines a critical examination of the extent and diversity of transphobic hate crime together with a consideration of the victims and offenders.

This book examines social aspects of humour relating to the judiciary, judicial behaviour, and judicial work across different cultures and eras, identifying how traditionally recorded wit and humorous portrayals of judges reflect social attitudes to the judiciary over time.

Globalization has increased the number of individuals in criminal proceedings who are unable to understand the language of the courtroom, and as a result the number of court interpreters has also increased.

This book reinvigorates the field of socio-legal inquiry examining the relationship between law and demography.

This book presents both a new theoretical framework for the criminalisation of hate, referred to as "e;law as social justice liberalism"e;, and a comprehensive analysis of hate crime laws that have been enacted globally.

This is the first book to critically examine Hollywood films that focus on male partner violence against women.

The volume brings together an international group of authors discussing basic concepts and approaches to plural policing as well as aspects and practices of plural policing in specific locations.

This book explores the use of restorative justice approaches in the context of environmental crimes.

This book examines Mental Health Courts (MHC) within a socio-legal framework.

This book discusses Stuart Hall's unique contribution to criminology.

This book shares state-of-the-art insights on judicial decision-making from both theoretical and empirical perspectives.

This edited collection introduces and defines the concept of "e;comparative restorative justice"e;, putting it in the context of power relations and inequality.

This book is a critical examination of recently introduced individual accountability regimes that apply to the financial services industry in the UK (SMCR) and Australia (BEAR and the forthcoming FAR), together with a forthcoming new individual accountability regime ( in particular, SEAR) in Ireland.

This book investigates language-related problems which arise in courtroom discourse in the Republic of Cameroon, in Central Africa.

This book investigates the representation of rape in British and Irish theatre since the second wave of the Women's Movement.

This book offers a unique and powerful critique of the quest for international criminal justice.

This book distinguishes Islam as a spiritual message from the sociopolitical context of its revelation.

This book examines how alcohol intoxication impacts upon the memory of rape victims and provides recommendations for how best to investigate and prosecute such rape complaints.

This book discusses the relationship between law and memory and explores the ways in which memory can be thought of as contributing to legal socialization and legal meaning-making.

This book offers an historical and contemporary analysis of policing and police-citizen relations in Nigeria, to understand why people co-operate (or don't) with the police.

This edited collection analyses the prison through the most fundamental challenge it faces: escapes.

This book considers the law, policy and procedure for child witnesses in Australian criminal courts across the twentieth century.