Society and Law will serve as the core text for Society and Law and/or Law and Society courses in undergraduate programs offering majors in Sociology, Criminology, and Criminal Justice.
Law and Society: An Introduction discusses the interface between these two institutions and encourages students in the development of new insights on the topic. The book begins by introducing definitions, classifications, and the
Most students also come to accept that the role of a lawyer is to represent anyone in need of representation rather than to pursue a personal political agenda (Stover and Erlanger 1989). Cause lawyers generally have aspirations for ...
Bringing a timely synthesis to the field, The Handbook of Law and Society presents a comprehensive overview of key research findings, theoretical developments, and methodological controversies in the field of law and society.
This volume provides a conceptual framework for thinking about the full range of topics within the sociology of law discipline.
Instead, law is associated with 'plural forms of ordering ... participating in the same social field' (Merry 1988: 873). Law is not a single system but a complex of overlapping systems or regimes of regulation.
This harmony ideology, with its strong value placed on compromise and cooperation, was eventually incorporated into the local society and legal order. The Zapotec then exploited this “rhetoric of peace” as a shield with which they ...
This innovative handbook provides a comprehensive, and truly global, overview of the main approaches and themes within law and society scholarship or social-legal studies.
CAMBRIDGE STUDIES IN LAW AND SOCIETY Cambridge Studies in Law and Society aims to publish the best scholarly work on legal discourse and practice in its social and institutional contexts, combining theoretical insights and empirical ...
In the 11th edition of Law and Society, Steven E. Barkan preserves Dr. Vago’s voice while making this classic text more accessible for today’s students.
Together, the essays show how crucial the potential is that exists for a considerable extension and integration of work that focuses explicitly on empirical problems, yet is at the same time more conscious of the theoretical issues that ...