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Chinese Netizens' Opinions on Death Sentences

An Empirical Examination

By Bin Liang & Jianhong Liu
Subjects: Asian Studies, China, Law, Sociology
Series: China Understandings Today

Provides the first in-depth examination of what Chinese netizens think about various death sentences and executions in China.

The Politics of Community Policing

Rearranging the Power to Punish

By William (Bill) Thomas Lyons
Subjects: Law, Sociology, Political Science, American Politics
Series: Law, Meaning, and Violence

Community policing, the author argues, does not necessarily empower the community but often increases the power of the police

Communities and Law

Politics and Cultures of Legal Identities

By Gad Barzilai
Subjects: Political Science, International Relations, Law, Comparative Politics, Gender Studies, Women's Studies, Sociology
Series: Law, Meaning, and Violence

Offers an alternative approach to liberalism and to communitarianism, with an empirical focus on Israel

Lives of Lawyers Revisited

Transformation and Resilience in the Organizations of Practice

By Michael J. Kelly
Subjects: Law, Law and Society, Sociology, Political Science
Series: Law, Meaning, and Violence

A profound ethnographic analysis of how lawyers understand and respond to sweeping changes in the legal profession

Law Stories

Edited by Gary Bellow & Martha Minow
Subjects: Law, Sociology
Series: Law, Meaning, and Violence

Accounts of law problems and the way they were handled, written by the responsible lawyers

Justice and Injustice in Law and Legal Theory

Edited by Austin Sarat & Thomas R. Kearns
Subjects: Law, Philosophy, Sociology, Political Science, American Politics
Series: Amherst Series in Law, Jurisprudence, and Social Thought

Explores the relationship between law and justice

Cops, Teachers, Counselors

Stories from the Front Lines of Public Service

By Steven Williams Maynard-Moody & Michael Craig Musheno
Subjects: Political Science, American Politics, Law, Sociology

A penetrating look at how government workers make sense of their work, ascribe identity to the people they encounter, and account for their decisions and actions

The Place of Law

Edited by Austin Sarat, Lawrence Douglas, and Martha Umphrey
Subjects: Law, Sociology, Literary Studies, Literary Criticism and Theory, Political Science
Series: Amherst Series in Law, Jurisprudence, and Social Thought

An important book that urges us to ask about the usefulness of metaphors of place in the design of legal regulation

Doing Time on the Outside

Incarceration and Family Life in Urban America

By Donald Braman
Subjects: Anthropology, African American Studies, Law, Sociology

A compelling account of the unintended social, financial, and personal consequences of incarceration on the families of prisoners

Deployed

How Reservists Bear the Burden of Iraq

By Michael Craig Musheno & Susan M. Ross
Subjects: Sociology, Political Science, Public Policy, Law, Law and Society

The stories of the citizen soldiers of an Army Reserve unit who were among the first wave of reservists mobilized after September 11

After the End of History

The Curious Fate of American Materialism

1st Edition

By Robert E. Lane
Subjects: Economics, Political Science, African American Studies, Anthropology, Law, Sociology
Series: Evolving Values for a Capitalist World

A creative presentation of Lane's career research as an ongoing conversation between two fictitious social scientists with opposing views

Dissent in Dangerous Times

Edited by Austin Sarat
Subjects: Law, Sociology, Political Science, American Politics

A powerful and moving study of the relationship between patriotism and dissent in the post-September 11 era

Jurors' Stories of Death

How America's Death Penalty Invests in Inequality

By Benjamin Dov Fleury-Steiner
Subjects: Law, Political Science, Sociology
Series: Law, Meaning, and Violence

An extraordinary study of the people directly involved in death-penalty decisions

Legalizing Moves

Salvadoran Immigrants' Struggle for U.S. Residency

By (photographer) Susan Bibler Coutin
Subjects: Anthropology, Law, Latin American Studies, Sociology

Examines the transnational implications of immigrants' legalization efforts

Tangled Loyalties

Conflict of Interest in Legal Practice

By Susan P. Shapiro
Subjects: Law, Sociology

An empirical study of how conflicts of interest arise in the private practice of law and how law firms respond

Global Prescriptions

The Production, Exportation, and Importation of a New Legal Orthodoxy

Edited by Yves Dezalay & Bryant G. Garth
Subjects: Law, Political Science, International Relations, Sociology, Anthropology

Essays on the emerging new orthodoxy in international law that advocates the "rule of law" and "civil society" across the globe

Child Support

The Next Frontier

Edited by J. Thomas Oldham & Marygold Shire Melli
Subjects: Law, Sociology

Explores the issues in reform of child support laws

Rebels in Law

Voices in History of Black Women Lawyers

Edited by J. Clay Smith
Subjects: Law, Sociology, Gender Studies, History, American History

The reflections on their lives in law of pioneer black women lawyers

Legal Advocacy

Lawyers and Nonlawyers at Work

By Herbert Morris Kritzer
Subjects: Law, Sociology, Political Science, American Politics

Compares the performance of lawyers and non-lawyers as advocates in various legal proceedings

Television Violence and Public Policy

Edited by James T. Hamilton
Subjects: Political Science, American Politics, Sociology, Media Studies, T.V. & Radio, Law

Discusses why and how we should rate the content of television programs for violence

Affirmative Action and Minority Enrollments in Medical and Law Schools

By Susan Welch & John Gruhl
Subjects: Political Science, American Politics, Law, Sociology

Considers the impact of the Bakke decision regarding minority enrollment in professional schools

Medical Malpractice and the American Jury

Confronting the Myths about Jury Incompetence, Deep Pockets, and Outrageous Damage Awards

By Neil Vidmar
Subjects: Law, Political Science, American Politics, Sociology

Returns the verdict on the performance of medical malpractice juries

The Powers that Punish

Prison and Politics in the Era of the "Big House", 1920-1955

By Charles Bright
Subjects: Law, Sociology, Michigan and the Great Lakes, History
Series: Law, Meaning, and Violence

Explores the nature of punishment in a twentieth-century penitentiary

Stepfamilies and the Law

By Margaret Mahoney
Subjects: Law, Sociology

Essential reading for those who wish to understand the meaning of stepfamily relationships in America today

The Possibility of Popular Justice

A Case Study of Community Mediation in the United States

Edited by Sally Engle Merry & Neil Milner
Subjects: Law, Sociology, Political Science, American Politics, Anthropology
Series: Law, Meaning, and Violence

Can popular justice ever be a real alternative to the violence and coercion of state law?

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