Law and society, sociology of law

The costs of racially disparate patterns of police behavior are high, but the crime fighting benefits are low.

Examines how personality traits shape the behavior of US Supreme Court justices, proposing a new theory of judicial behavior.

A compelling collection of essays by female scholars examining the relationships between sustainability, corporations and the role of gender.

Explores the historical origins and emerging technologies of government profiling and examines law''s role in contemporary technological environments.

Offers a bold and original thesis and explains why feminism, joining men and women, is the key to resistance.

Focusing on Malawi, Johnson proposes a shift in emphasis to gender justice as an alternative to human and women''s rights.

Explores the ECtHR''s understanding of what it means to be a ''father'' and the role of doctrines of interpretation.

Offers a bold and original thesis and explains why feminism, joining men and women, is the key to resistance.

This book shows that attempts to repress religion produce the very violent religious extremism that states seek to avoid.

Explores the ideas, interests and institutions that shape the development of media systems, particularly in countries engaged in, and emerging from, violent conflict.

Shows how the Norwegian model of judicial review provides an alternative to American and European constitutionalism.

It humanizes high-level debates over indicators and data in development aid, showing how they are used to make life-or-death decisions.

Explains the adoption, diffusion of, and resistance to gender quotas in politics, corporate boards and public administration across Europe.

Innovation has a dark side.

The problem of social control has constituted the acid test for the entire issue of immigration and integration.

Examines gift exchanges as a foundational notion both in anthropology and in debates about international economic governance.

LGBT, faith, and academic thought-leaders explore prospects for laws protecting each community''s core interests and possible resolutions for culture-war conflicts.

Using a wealth of court records, Colonizing Consent shows how rape cases were caught up in, and helped shape, the major political debates in colonial South Africa.

A feminist rewrite of tort law cases that reveals gender bias and the law''s failure to redress serious harms to women.

Explores the role of linguistics in promoting justice and equality with regard to ethnic minorities, legal matters and civil rights.

Focusing on Malawi, Johnson proposes a shift in emphasis to gender justice as an alternative to human and women''s rights.

A compilation of expertise in Internet law and in ethical considerations concerning social computing in emergencies.

Hilary Evans Cameron demonstrates how the law that governs fact-finding in refugee hearings is malfunctioning, and suggests a way forward.

This book studies the rise of access over ownership and the sharing economy''s challenges to the liberal vision of property.

Law''s Wars is the first comprehensive account of efforts to resist and correct rule of law violations in the US ''war on terror''.

If you''ve dreamed of walking free of sexual harassment, you will understand why it''s time to end stop-and-frisk policing.

A study of gendered agency under neoliberal structures, seen through the life stories and narratives of Kenyan sex workers.

Explores the role of NGOs as mediators in crucial litigation cases on women''s rights in South Africa.

Asks and answers the hardest questions about the relationship between British Islam and English law using classical pluralist theory.

Analyzes the efforts to forge a progressive and ''authentic'' Israeli law that would express Jewish identity.

Focuses on what happens when the American public gets decide on the fate of capital punishment.

Explores how performance measurement systems shape South African court and managerial prosecutors'' understanding of accountability and their legal work practices.

Using a wealth of court records, Colonizing Consent shows how rape cases were caught up in, and helped shape, the major political debates in colonial South Africa.

Personalism points to reforming criminal justice from the person up by changing criminal law and enlisting civil society institutions.

Discusses natural law as a traditional but highly contested source of canon law.

Explores the impact of legal ideas and legal consciousness on early modern English society and culture.

A critical legal study of religion and state relations in Israel focusing on the religiously entrapped Palestinian-Arab individuals.

This book offers an approach to care and support policy prioritizing gender equality, disability human rights and dignity for all.

Examines gift exchanges as a foundational notion both in anthropology and in debates about international economic governance.

If you''ve dreamed of walking free of sexual harassment, you will understand why it''s time to end stop-and-frisk policing.

A critical legal study of religion and state relations in Israel focusing on the religiously entrapped Palestinian-Arab individuals.

This book offers an approach to care and support policy prioritizing gender equality, disability human rights and dignity for all.

Examines how personality traits shape the behavior of US Supreme Court justices, proposing a new theory of judicial behavior.

Explains how and why laws against human germline modification will do more harm than good.

An introduction to how belonging and identity have been reflected, modified, and rearticulated in crucial moments throughout history.

This book details how, in poor communities, access to healthcare and social support is linked to punishment systems.

An analysis of law and imperial rule reveals that Tsarist Russia was far more ''lawful'' than generally assumed.

Analyses the relation of preventive and curative health policy and its evolution over time.

Detailed study of the ICC''s practice in prosecuting gender-based crimes, current up to the ICC Statute''s twentieth anniversary in 2018.

An introduction to how belonging and identity have been reflected, modified, and rearticulated in crucial moments throughout history.