Law and society, sociology of law

This book addresses the intersection of two current major concerns in Australia: law and justice responses to domestic violence - including harsher punitive measures - and the over-representation of Indigenous Australians in the criminal justice system, which are similar concerns in New Zealand, Canada and the US.

This book presents the formerly-unpublished manuscript by Wheeler and Cline detailing the landmark, comparative prisons study they conducted in the 1960s which examined fifteen Scandinavian prisons and nearly 2000 inmates across four Nordic countries.

This book offers an in-depth analysis of the case of Corbett v Corbett, a landmark in terms of law's engagement with sexual identity, marriage, and transgender rights.

This book highlights and examines the level, reach and consequences of corruption in international criminal justice systems.

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

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

This book maps the changes in court advocacy in England and Wales over the last three centuries.

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 traces victims' active participatory rights through different procedural stages in adversarial and non-adversarial justice systems, in an attempt to identify what role victims play during criminal proceedings in the domestic setting.

This book is based on the assumption that the world is governed by a widespread field of interconnected laws.

This book presents a comprehensive analysis of personal participation in criminal proceedings and in absentia trials.

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 book traces victims' active participatory rights through different procedural stages in adversarial and non-adversarial justice systems, in an attempt to identify what role victims play during criminal proceedings in the domestic setting.

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A rare first-hand account of disaffected youth.

What are drug courts?

What are drug courts?

The treatment of sexual minoritieswhether lesbian, gay, bisexual, or transgendervaries significantly in different parts of the world.

Combining analyses of feminist legal theory, legal doctrine, and feminist social movements, The Oxford Handbook of Feminism and Law in the United States offers a comprehensive overview of U.

The growing interest in the relationship between religion and law is, in the case of Christianity, often viewed in monolithic terms.

This volume of Studies in Law, Politics, and Society brings together research by graduate students from universities in the United States and the United Kingdom.

This volume of "e;Studies in Law, Politics, and Society"e; brings together research on law's cultural life and on institutions and actors who translate interests, preferences, and values into legal policy.

This special volume of "e;Studies in Law, Politics, and Society - The Aesthetics of Law and Culture: Texts, Images, Screens"e; - examines practices of representation and their relation to juridical and cultural formations.

This collection examines the human rights to social security and social protection from a women's rights perspective.

This collection examines the human rights to social security and social protection from a women's rights perspective.

This collection of essays interrogates how human rights law and practice acquire meaning in relation to legal pluralism, ie, the co-existence of more than one regulatory order in a same social field.

This collection of essays interrogates how human rights law and practice acquire meaning in relation to legal pluralism, ie, the co-existence of more than one regulatory order in a same social field.

This volume of "e;Studies in Law, Politics, and Society"e; features a symposium on law and film as well as two articles of general interest.

This forty-fifth volume of "e;Studies in Law, Politics, and Society"e; brings together the work of scholars from several disciplines, work which usefully illuminates central questions surrounding the operation of law and legal systems.

Biobanks are proliferating rapidly worldwide because they are powerful tools and organisational structures for undertaking medical research.

Biobanks are proliferating rapidly worldwide because they are powerful tools and organisational structures for undertaking medical research.

Described by Richard Sherwin of New York Law School as the law and film movement's 'founding text', this text is a second, heavily revised and improved edition of the original Film and the Law (Cavendish Publishing, 2001).

The book highlights the interconnections between three framing concepts in the development of modern western law: religion, race, and rights.

Socio-legal researchers increasingly recognise the need to employ a wide variety of methods in studying law and legal phenomena, and the need to be informed by an understanding of debates about theory and method in mainstream social science.

This book is a collection of articles based on Understanding Unjust Enrichment,a symposium held at the University of Western Ontario in January 2003.

The essays in this volume are dedicated to Gareth Jones, the retiring Downing Professor of English Law at the University of Cambridge.

This volume takes a critical look at the gender of tax policy around the world.

'Restitution for wrongs', or 'restitutionary damages', is the judicial award which compels the wrongdoer to give up to the victim the benefit obtained through the perpetration of the wrong, independently of any loss suffered by the victim.

The essays in this volume are dedicated to Gareth Jones, the retiring Downing Professor of English Law at the University of Cambridge.

Despite the advent of new sexual knowledges,new perspectives, new experiences even, we do not routinely or habitually reflect on the interface of social and legal dimensions of sexuality.

This collection brings together a distinguished group of researchers to examine the power relations which are played out in university law schools as a result of the different pressures exerted upon them by a range of different 'stakeholders'.

The Society of Legal Scholars, originally the Society of Public Teachers of Law, was created in 1909, but was fortunate to survive its first half century.

This book defines and explains the operation of the defence of change of position in Anglo-Australian law.

In July 2007, the School of Law at the University of Warwick hosted an international conference on 'Shakespeare and the Law'.

The concept of equality has been a key animating principle of modern feminism, and has been highly productive for feminist legal thought and feminist politics concerning law.