Law and society, sociology of law

This book questions what practices constitute a ''religious activity'' such that it cannot be supported or funded by government.

This volume explores the various strategies, mechanisms and processes that influence rule of law dynamics across borders and the national/international divide.

This volume explores the various strategies, mechanisms and processes that influence rule of law dynamics across borders and the national/international divide.

This volume investigates the use of law by ordinary individuals and groups as a form of protest against ''the state''.

This volume investigates the use of law by ordinary individuals and groups as a form of protest against ''the state''.

This volume considers whether it is possible to establish carefully tailored hate speech policies that recognize the histories and values of different countries.

This book explores how scientific evidence on the human mind might help to explain why racial equality is so elusive.

This volume considers whether it is possible to establish carefully tailored hate speech policies that recognize the histories and values of different countries.

This book brings together contributions from academics and practitioners to explore the implications of legal pluralism for legal development.

This book explores how scientific evidence on the human mind might help to explain why racial equality is so elusive.

This book brings together contributions from academics and practitioners to explore the implications of legal pluralism for legal development.

A collection of essays and commentary that explores the status of dissent in the work and lives of judges, lawyers, and citizens, and in our institutions and culture.

Explores the relationship between constitutional law and feminism, offering a spectrum of approaches and analysis set across a wide range of topics.

A collection of essays and commentary that explores the status of dissent in the work and lives of judges, lawyers, and citizens, and in our institutions and culture.

Explores the relationship between constitutional law and feminism, offering a spectrum of approaches and analysis set across a wide range of topics.

An examination of international attempts to develop common principles for regulating criminal evidence across different legal traditions.

This book assembles essays on legal sociology and legal history by a group of distinguished scholars who have been influenced by Lawrence M.

This book explores the tension between law''s need for and dependence on merciful judgments and suspicions that regularly accompany them.

This book presents a cohesive theory of gay life under straight domination.

This book explores the tension between law''s need for and dependence on merciful judgments and suspicions that regularly accompany them.

This book presents a cohesive theory of gay life under straight domination.

This book assembles essays on legal sociology and legal history by a group of distinguished scholars who have been influenced by Lawrence M.

Alan Paterson argues that, in a democracy, legal institutions are too important to be defined and controlled by lawyers alone.

Considers how law interacts with economic and social processes to create global gender injustices.

Alan Paterson argues that, in a democracy, legal institutions are too important to be defined and controlled by lawyers alone.

Considers how law interacts with economic and social processes to create global gender injustices.

This book contains a global comparative study of implementation and monitoring mechanisms for national disability strategies.

This book contains a global comparative study of implementation and monitoring mechanisms for national disability strategies.

How should uncertainties implicit in scientific evidence be dealt with in international legal disputes relating to health and the environment?

Explores how disability activists in the UK and Canada have transformed aspirations into legal claims in their quest for equality.

Explores how disability activists in the UK and Canada have transformed aspirations into legal claims in their quest for equality.

This book assesses the implications of how children and young people are represented in print media in Northern Ireland - a post-conflict transitioning society.

This highly topical collection of essays addresses contemporary issues facing Indigenous communities from a broad range of multi- and interdisciplinary perspectives.

This multi-disciplinary study considers the intersection between law and family life in Ireland from the early nineteenth to the mid-twentieth century.

This book uses previously unknown archive materials to explore the meaning of the term 'incapable of work' over a hundred years (1911-present).

Nobody's Law shows how people - who are disappointed, disenchanted, and outraged about the justice system - gradually move away from law.

This textbook considers the full breadth of the criminal justice system, going beyond prisons to cover other punishments such as out-of-court disposals and community penalties, as well as issues around rehabilitation and reintegration.

This book examines the increasing retention and use of previous criminal record information, within and beyond the criminal justice system.

This book examines the use and impact of Australian Indigenous sentencing courts in response to Indigenous partner violence.

This book uses a case study of a low-cost home ownership initiative at the margins of renting and owning provided by social landlords - known as shared ownership - to challenge everyday assumptions held about the 'social' and the 'legal' in property.

This edited collection speaks to and expands on existing debates around incarceration.

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This book undertakes an exploratory exercise in decolonizing criminology through engaging postcolonial and postdisciplinary perspectives and methodologies.

Judicial authority is constituted by everyday practices of individual judicial officers, balancing the obligations of formal law and procedure with the distinctive interactional demands of lower courts.

This book examines diverse literary writings in Bangla related to crime in late nineteenth and early twentieth century colonial Bengal, with a timely focus on gender.

This book provides a critical analysis of criminological scholarship in Malaysia, presenting a focused exploration of the key qualities and limitations to studies on crime, deviance, victimization and criminal justice in this country.

Stories of Care: A Labour of Law is an interdisciplinary study of the interactions of law and labour that shape paid care work.

This book develops a more nuanced, and technically rigorous, account of persons and groups in the context of intentional action and responsibility.

This book offers a comparative exploration of how journalists across different newsrooms around the world access and interpret statistics when producing stories related to crime.

This book brings together a collection of essays by leading criminologists to explore the relationship between the private sector and criminal justice.