By Brian Tamanaha
ISBN-10: 0199244677
ISBN-13: 9780199244676
A theoretical and sociological exploration of the connection among legislation and society, this publication constructs an method of legislations that integrates felony thought with sociological methods to legislations. legislation is mostly understood to be a reflect of society--a mirrored image of its customs and morals--that features to keep up social order. concentrating on this universal realizing, the booklet conducts a survey of Western criminal and social theories approximately legislations and its courting inside society, conducting a theoretical and empirical critique of this universal realizing.
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Editorial Board: John Baldwin. Director of the Institute of Judicial Administration. University of Birmingham: William L. F. Felstiner, Professor. Law and Society Program. University of California-Santa Barbara: Denis Galligan, Professor of Socio-Legal Studies and Director of the Centre for Socio-Legal Studies, Oxford: Sally Lloyd-Bostock, Reader in Socio-Legal Studies. University of Birmingham; Doreen McBarnet, Senior Research Fellow. Centre for Socio-Legal Studies. Oxford; Simon Roberts. Professor of Law.
F. Felstiner, Professor. Law and Society Program. University of California-Santa Barbara: Denis Galligan, Professor of Socio-Legal Studies and Director of the Centre for Socio-Legal Studies, Oxford: Sally Lloyd-Bostock, Reader in Socio-Legal Studies. University of Birmingham; Doreen McBarnet, Senior Research Fellow. Centre for Socio-Legal Studies. Oxford; Simon Roberts. Professor of Law. London School of Economics and Political Science. International Advisory Board: John Braithwaite (Australian National University); Robert Cooler (University of California-Berkeley); Bryant Garth (American Bar Foundation); Volkmar Gessner (University of Bremen); Vittorio Olgiati (University of Milan); Martin Partington (University of Bristol).
Centre for Socio-Legal Studies. Oxford; Simon Roberts. Professor of Law. London School of Economics and Political Science. International Advisory Board: John Braithwaite (Australian National University); Robert Cooler (University of California-Berkeley); Bryant Garth (American Bar Foundation); Volkmar Gessner (University of Bremen); Vittorio Olgiati (University of Milan); Martin Partington (University of Bristol). Oxford Socio-Legal Studies is a series of books exploring the role of law in society for both an academic and a wider readership.