Law and society, sociology of law

"e;The perfect book for the present moment.

"e;The perfect book for the present moment.

It is no secret that since the 1980s, American workers have lost power vis-a-vis employers through the well-chronicled steep decline in private sector unionization.

It is no secret that since the 1980s, American workers have lost power vis-a-vis employers through the well-chronicled steep decline in private sector unionization.

In 1950s America, it was remarkably easy for police to arrest almost anyone for almost any reason.

In 1950s America, it was remarkably easy for police to arrest almost anyone for almost any reason.

In an extraordinary history of the criminal trial, Sadakat Kadri shows with wit, legal insight and a travel writer's eye for detail, how the irrationality of the past lives on in the legal systems of the present.

'Men's lives are a perpetual conflict.

Diese deutschen Tatorte erlangten traurige Berühmtheit: Eppstein-Vockenhausen (Freiherr-von-Stein-Schule, 1983), Eching und Freising (staatliche Wirtschaftsschule, 2002), Erfurt (Gutenberg-Gymnasium, 2002), Emsdetten (Geschwister-Scholl-Realschule, 2006), Würzburg (Kaufhaus am Barbarossaplatz, 2021, Berlin (Weihnachtsmarkt am Breitscheidplatz, 2022), und jetzt schließlich auch Hamburg (Deelböge, Gemeindehaus der Zeugen Jehovas, 2023).

El derecho tiene la necesidad de adaptarse a la cambiante realidad social y a los temas relacionados con la violencia de género contra niñas y mujeres.

A compelling study of a subtle and insidious form of racial inequality in American law and culture.

How our national identity has changed in significant and unexpected ways since the attacks of 9/11 Beautifully written and carefully reasoned, this bold and provocative work upends the conventional wisdom about the American reaction to crisis.

Not just for lawyers, these illuminating histories of popular law-related expressions will delight anyone fascinated by words, by history, or by law and law enforcement Law-related words and phrases abound in our everyday language, often without our being aware of their origins or their particular legal significance: boilerplate, jailbait, pound of flesh, rainmaker, the third degree.

Nearly all communities are exclusive in some way.

What happens in the virtual world doesn't always stay in the virtual world Tens of millions of people today are living part of their life in a virtual world.

Property Outlaws puts forth the intriguingly counterintuitive proposition that, in the case of both tangible and intellectual property law, disobedience can often lead to an improvement in legal regulation.

Most people are unaware of a quiet war that has been raging for the last decade in the courts, federal regulatory agencies, and Congress—a war over federal agency preemption of state common law claims.

Bedouin Law from Sinai and the Negev is the first comprehensive study of Bedouin law published in English, including oral, pre-modern law.

Women’s rights advocates in the United States have long argued that violence against women denies women equality and citizenship, but it took a movement of feminist activists and lawyers, beginning in the late 1960s, to set about realizing this vision and transforming domestic violence from a private problem into a public harm.

Cultural views of femininity exerted a powerful influence on the courtroom arguments used to defend or condemn notable women on trial in nineteenth-century and early-twentieth-century America.

At what age do girls gain the maturity to make sexual choices?

During the 1970s, grassroots women activists in and outside of prisons forged a radical politics against gender violence and incarceration.

In the United States, the second-wave feminist fight to achieve legal and societal recognition of mens violence against women leaned heavily on the victim-offender binary, which has since become inscribed in funding schemes, legal remedies, and intervention approaches.

In a Box draws on the experiences of more than one hundred Michigan women on probation or parole to analyze how court, state, and federal policies hamper the state's efforts at gender-responsive reforms in community supervision.

Wem gehört die Stadt?

There are different forms of discrimination.

In August 2016 Colten Boushie, a twenty-two-year-old Cree man from Red Pheasant First Nation, was fatally shot on a Saskatchewan farm by white farmer Gerald Stanley.

In Sorting Sexualities, Stefan Vogler deftly unpacks the politics of the techno-legal classification of sexuality in the United States.

In August 2016 Colten Boushie, a twenty-two-year-old Cree man from Red Pheasant First Nation, was fatally shot on a Saskatchewan farm by white farmer Gerald Stanley.

Originally published in 1985, Women, Social Science and Public Policy looks at what difference the debate over the position of women had made to the way social scientists worked and thought, or to law and social policies at the time.

Makes sense of truthmaking in law, media, politics, and courts of popular opinion including on transgender controversies and cancel culture.

We speak of being 'free' to speak our minds, free to go to college, free to move about; we can be cancer-free, debt-free, worry-free, or free from doubt.

Although many books on terrorism and religious extremism have been published in the years since 9/11, none of them written by Western authors call for the curtailment of religious freedom and freedom of expression for the sake of greater security.

Getting By offers an integrated, critical account of the federal laws and programs that most directly affect poor and low-income people in the United States-the unemployed, the underemployed, and the low-wage employed, whether working in or outside the home.

Getting By offers an integrated, critical account of the federal laws and programs that most directly affect poor and low-income people in the United States-the unemployed, the underemployed, and the low-wage employed, whether working in or outside the home.

Democracy is the ability to participate freely and equally in the political and economic affairs of the country.

Although international arbitration has emerged as a credible means of resolution of transnational disputes involving parties from diverse cultures, the effects of culture on the accuracy, efficiency, fairness, and legitimacy of international arbitration is a surprisingly neglected topic within the existing literature.

"e;Knowledge commons"e; describes the institutionalized community governance of the sharing and, in some cases, creation, of information, science, knowledge, data, and other types of intellectual and cultural resources.

Since its founding in 1910--the same year as another national organization devoted to the economic and social welfare aspects of race advancement, the National Urban League--the NAACP has been viewed as the vanguard national civil rights organization in American history.

As a linguistically-grounded, critical examination of consent, this volume views consent not as an individual mental state or act but as a process that is interactionally-and discursively-situated.

In the past 50 years, fewer than eighty women worldwide have attained the office of prime minister or president.

The lawsuit is the cornerstone of the civil justice system in America, and an open court the foundation of American jurisprudence.

For many Americans, the election of Barack Obama as the country's first black president signaled that we had become a post-racial nation - some even suggested that race was no longer worth discussing.

The Language of Sexual Misconduct Cases analyzes the many ways in which language plays a crucial role in sexual misconduct cases.

There was a time when the phrase "e;American family"e; conjured up a single, specific image: a breadwinner dad, a homemaker mom, and their 2.

Gender oppression has been a feature of war and conflict throughout human history, yet until fairly recently, little attention was devoted to addressing the consequences of violence and discrimination experienced by women in post-conflict states.

Highly popular with both the public and political leaders, community policing is the most important development in law enforcement in the last twenty-five years.

During the 2000 presidential campaign, George W.

In this linguistic study of law school education, Mertz shows how law professors employ the Socratic method between teacher and student, forcing the student to shift away from moral and emotional terms in thinking about conflict, toward frameworks of legal authority instead.

A monumental investigation of the Supreme Court's rulings on race, From Jim Crow To Civil Rights spells out in compelling detail the political and social context within which the Supreme Court Justices operate and the consequences of their decisions for American race relations.