Edizione	[First edition.]
Pubbl/distr/stampa	Bingley, England : , : Emerald Publishing, , [2019]
Descrizione fisica	1 online resource (190 pages)
Disciplina	365
Collana	Studies in law, politics, and society
Soggetto topico	Ex-convicts - Social conditions Prisoners - Deinstitutionalization Imprisonment - Social aspects Law, Jurisprudence Law & society
ISBN	1-78769-271-X 1-78769-269-8
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Nota di contenuto	Prelims -- After solitary confinement: a new era of punishment? -- Planning for precarity? experiencing the carceral continuum of imprisonment and reentry -- Banking on rehab: private prison vendors and the reconfiguration of mass incarceration -- The collateral consequence conundrum: comparative genealogy, current trends, and future scenarios -- “$40 to Make sure”: background check laws and the endogenous construction of criminal risk -- Churning through the system: how people engage with the criminal justice system when faced with short sentences -- Maximizing charges: overcriminalization and prosecutorial practices during the crime decline.
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Edizione	[1st ed.]
Pubbl/distr/stampa	Malden, MA, : Blackwell Pub., 2004
Descrizione fisica	1 online resource (690 p.)
Disciplina	340/.115
Altri autori (Persone)	SaratAustin
Collana	Blackwell companions to sociology
Soggetto topico	Law - Social aspects
ISBN	1-281-30965-6 1-78034-114-8 9786611309657 1-4051-6663-0 0-470-69365-7 0-470-69291-X
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Nota di contenuto	The Blackwell Companion to Law and Society; Contents; Preface; List of Contributors; 1 Vitality Amidst Fragmentation: On the Emergence of Postrealist Law and Society Scholarship; PART I PERSPECTIVES ON THE HISTORY AND SIGNIFICANCE OF LAWAND SOCIETY RESEARCH; 2 Law in Social Theory and Social Theory in the Study of Law; 3 Profession, Science, and Culture: An Emergent Canon of Law and Society Research; PART II THE CULTURAL LIFE OF LAW; 4 The Work of Rights and the Work Rights Do: A Critical Empirical Approach; 5 Consciousness and Ideology; 6 Law in Popular Culture; 7 Comparing Legal Cultures PART III INSTITUTIONS AND ACTORS8 The Police and Policing; 9 Professional Power: Lawyers and the Constitution of Professional Authority; 10 Courts and Judges; 11 Jurors and Juries; 12 Regulators and Regulatory Processes; 13 The Legal Lives of Private Organizations; PART IV DOMAINS OF POLICY; 14 Legal Regulation of Families in Changing Societies; 15 Culture, ''Kulturkampf,'' and Beyond: The Antidiscrimination Principle under the Jurisprudence of Backlash; 16 The Government of Risks; 17 Thinking About Criminal Justice: Sociolegal Expertise and the Modernization of American Criminal Justice 18 Rights in the Shadow of Class: Poverty, Welfare, and the Law19 Immigration; 20 Commodity Culture, Private Censorship, Branded Environments, and Global Trade Politics: Intellectual Property as a Topic of Law and Society Research; 21 Legal Categorizations and Religion: On Politics of Modernity, Practices, Faith, and Power ́; 22 The Role of Social Science in Legal Decisions; PART V HOW DOES LAW MATTER?; 23 Procedural Justice; 24 A Tale of Two Genres: On the Real and Ideal Links Between Law and Society and Critical Race Theory 25 The Constitution of Identity: Gender, Feminist Legal Theory, and the Law and Society Movement26 Sexuality in Law and Society Scholarship; 27 Law and Social Movements; 28 ''The Dog That Didn't Bark'': A Sociolegal Tale of Law, Democracy, and Elections; PART VI STUDYING GLOBALIZATION: PAST, PRESENT, FUTURE; 29 Ethnographies of Law; 30 Colonial and Postcolonial Law; 31 Human Rights; 32 The Rule of Law and Economic Development in a Global Era; 33 Economic Globalization and the Law in the Twenty-first Century; Index
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Pubbl/distr/stampa	New York, New York ; ; Oxford, [England] : , : Oxford University Press, , 1998
Descrizione fisica	1 online resource (571 p.)
Disciplina	340/.115
Collana	Oxford Socio-Legal Studies
Soggetto topico	Cause lawyers Law - Political aspects Sociological jurisprudence Public interest law Practice of law
Soggetto genere / forma	Electronic books.
ISBN	1-60256-186-9 1-280-45378-8 1-4237-5967-2 0-19-535447-8 0-585-24778-1
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Nota di contenuto	Contents; Contributors; 1. Cause Lawyering and the Reproduction of Professional Authority: An Introduction; I. Contexts and Conditions of Cause Lawyering; 2. The Causes of Cause Lawyering: Toward an Understanding of the Motivation and Commitment of Social Justice Lawyers; 3. Speaking Law to Power: Occasions for Cause Lawyering; 4. The Struggle to Politicize Legal Practice: A Case Study of Left-Activist Lawyering in Seattle; II. Cause Lawyering and the Organization of Practice; 5. Norris, Schmidt, Green, Harris, Higginbotham & Associates: The Sociolegal Import of Philadelphia Cause Lawyers 6. Still Trying: Cause Lawyering for the Poor and Disadvantaged in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania7. Critical Lawyers: Social Justice and the Structures of Private Practice; 8. Destruction of Houses and Construction of a Cause: Lawyers and Bedouins in the Israeli Courts; III. Strategies of Cause Lawyering under Liberal Legalism; 9. Rethinking Law's "Allurements": A Relational Analysis of Social Movement Lawyers in th
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Pubbl/distr/stampa	Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2001
Descrizione fisica	1 online resource (xi, 417 p.)
Disciplina	340/.115
Altri autori (Persone)	SaratAustin ScheingoldStuart A
Collana	Oxford socio-legal studies
Soggetto topico	Cause lawyers Public interest law Nation-state Globalization
Soggetto genere / forma	Electronic books.
ISBN	0-19-987139-6 1-60256-795-6 0-19-803237-4 1-4356-1888-2 1-280-48160-9 9786610481606
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Nota di contenuto	Intro -- Contents -- Contributors -- 1. State Transformation, Globalization, and the Possibilities of Cause Lawyering: An Introduction -- I. Global Developments/Local Contests: New Opportunities/New Challenges -- 2. Two Worlds of Ghanaian Cause Lawyers -- 3. From the Fight for Legal Rights to the Promotion of Human Rights: Israeli and Palestinian Cause Lawyers in the Trenches of Globalization -- 4. Taking on Goliath: Why Personal Injury Litigation May Represent the Future of Transnational Cause Lawyering -- 5. Cause Lawyering in the Shadow of the State: A U.S. Immigration Example -- II. Globalization and State Transformation: Patterns of Conflict and Cooperation between Cause Lawyers and the State -- 6. Cause Lawyers in a Cold Climate: The Impact(s) of Globalization on the United Kingdom -- 7. State Transformation and the Struggle for Symbolic Capital: Cause Lawyers, the Organized Bar, and Capital Punishment in the United States -- 8. Cause Lawyers, Clients, and the State: Congress as a Forum for Cause Lawyering during the Enactment of the Americans with Disabilities Act -- 9. The Global Language of Human Rights: Patterns of Cooperation between State and Civil Rights Lawyers in Israel -- 10. Legal Advocacy, Global Engagement: The Impact of Land Claims Advocacy on the Recognition of Property Rights in the South African Constitution -- 11. State-Oriented and Community-Oriented Lawyering for a Cause: A Tale of Two Strategies -- III. The Globalization of Cause Lawyering -- 12. Latin American Cause-Lawyering Networks -- 13. The Politics of Imported Rights: Transplantation and Transformation in an Israeli Environmental Cause-Lawyering Organization -- 14. Constructing Law Out of Power: Investing in Human Rights as an Alternative Political Strategy -- 15. Cause Lawyering and Democracy in Transnational Perspective: A Postcript -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D. E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.
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