Law and society, sociology of law

Fresh approaches to how premodern women were viewed in legal terms, demonstrating how this varied from country to country and across the centuries.

Outlines how land disputes are entangled with gender, ethnicity and territoriality, shaping public authority and state formation.

With systematic, thematic chapters, this volume demonstrates how law and gender co-produce gendered legal subjects.

This ground-breaking textbook engages readers in conversation about responding to the effects of diversity within formal criminal justice systems in Westernized nation-states.

SHORTLISTED FOR THE CWA's ALCS Gold Dagger for Non-Fiction Award WITH A BRAND-NEW AFTERWORD FOR 2024 COVERING RUSSELL BRAND, LUIS RUBIALES AND OTHER CASE STUDIES FROM AROUND THE WORLD 'A stunning book; as vital as it is compelling.

This book examines how international investment arbitral awards can be facilitated.

Bringing together leading experts from across the UK and Europe, this book provides a comprehensive analysis of the impact of Brexit on the energy sector in the UK and in the European Union and its Member States.

This second edition of Construction Law: From Beginner to Practitioner provides a thorough and comprehensive guide to construction law by blending together black letter law and socio-legal approaches.

This second edition of Construction Law: From Beginner to Practitioner provides a thorough and comprehensive guide to construction law by blending together black letter law and socio-legal approaches.

This book places prostitution at the very centre of European history in the twentieth century.

The seaworthiness of merchant ships plays a critical role in ensuring the safety of life and property and the prevention of marine pollution.

This book analyzes the role of laws and the judiciary in the process of censorship in India.

COVID-19 has changed not only human lives since the beginning of the year 2020, but systems of human society as well.

The book The Law of Securitisations: From Crises to Techno-sustainability provides a full and detailed account of the EU legislation in the area of structured finance with the new legal rules dissected and discussed in their full extent.

This book explores victims' views of plea negotiations and the level of input that they desire.

The Routledge Handbook of European Integrations fills a significant gap in the European studies literature by providing crucial and groundbreaking coverage of several key areas that are usually neglected or excluded in European integration collections.

First reader to feature key law and society research and debates in nearly all Asian countries.

First reader to feature key law and society research and debates in nearly all Asian countries.

The first interdisciplinary empirically-grounded pluri-jurisdictional assessment of the origins, operation and main causes of the growing global investment migration trend.

Interrogates the role of power and emotions in the responses of Western States and churches to their historical abuses.

This book bridges the gap between basic science, which deals with general concepts of aggression and its neurobiological foundations, and law enforcement as one of the applied fields of aggression research.

Analyzing what is known about violence against women, this book centers on the contrast between the U.

Anger was the engine of justice in the ancient Greek world.

This book provides an original theoretically and empirically grounded analysis of regulatory enforcement activism in post-crises periods and the ensuing regulatory interactions.

This edited collection brings together leading and emerging scholars in the important field of sexual violence scholarship.

One of the first to provide a socio-legal comparative history of under-studied or ignored Jewish attempts in the 1930s "e;Anglosphere"e; to counter the rise in fascist and Nazi antisemitism, this book examines the ways in which Jewish individuals and organized communal bodies in the mid-to-late 1930s sought to counter this increasing antisemitic violence, physical and verbal, by using the law against their fascist and Nazi attackers.

Utilising Lon Fuller's conception of legality, this book argues that current legal provisions often used to control online abuse aided by social media do not conform to the basic principles of legality in the criminal law, in turn, threatening freedom of expression.

This book provides the first account of the sustained entanglement of law, religion, and empire in Northern Nigeria.

Violence at the Intersection: The Interlocking Impact of Race, Ethnicity, Gender, and Class on Risk and Resilience builds upon and expands recent scholarship on the intersectionality of race, ethnicity, gender/gender identity, and class and their multiplicative effects on violent offending and victimization.

Women's Legal Landmarks in the Interwar Years shines new light on 33 legal landmarks, many forgotten today, that affected women in England and Wales between 1918 and 1939.

The Routledge International Handbook of Juvenile Homicide is the definitive work on juvenile homicide.

The last decade has seen the increasing integration of European financial markets due to a number of factors including the creation of a common regulatory framework, the liberalisation of international capital movements, financial deregulation, advances in technology and the introduction of the Euro.

This book seeks to further the understanding of the human experience of coerced and forced ignorance on social, human rights and criminal justice related topics, drawing together scholars from multiple, disciplinary fronts.

This book examines the legal protection and management of inland waters in Europe.

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.

Exploring why prison officers leave His Majesty's Prison and Probation Service (HMPPS) and the processes and trajectories involved in returning to 'civilian life', this book examines the reasons that prison officers want to leave HMPPS and how they transition back to 'civvy street'.

Evidence: Law and Context explains the key concepts of evidence law in England and Wales clearly and concisely, set against the backdrop of the broader political and theoretical contexts.

This book provides an in-depth exploration of the Jewish legal tradition, or halakhah, through the lens of modern legal philosophy.

'This is a vital book.

Analysing the strategies people use to resist, accept and respond to laws that attempt to shape not just their behaviour, but also their identity, this book pursues a critical engagement with legal gender transition.

The first known abolitionist critique of the death penalty-here for the first time in EnglishIn 1764, a Milanese aristocrat named Cesare Beccaria created a sensation when he published On Crimes and Punishments.

This book examines the representation and misrepresentation of queer people in true crime, addressing their status as both victims and perpetrators in actual crime, as well as how the media portrays them.

Bringing together perspectives from academics, practitioners, campaigners, and activists, this book explores the victimology of disability hate crime (DHC).

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.

Getting Out offers the first systematic account of the evolution of early release as a public policy concern in England and Wales between 1960 and 1995.

Understanding Company Law is a lively introduction to modern company law.

Taking up the concept of vulnerability, this book examines the gendered impact of market-based procurement practices.

This book highlights the right to terminate a contract, yielding invaluable insights to enable policymakers and legal practitioners to facilitate international trade.

This book analyzes the ethics of men buying and selling sex to one another.