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Punishment in Popular Culture
The way a society punishes demonstrates its commitment to standards of judgment and justice, its distinctive views of blame and responsibility, and its particular way of responding to evil. Punishment in Popular Culture examines the cultural presuppositions that undergird America's distinctive approach to punishment and analyzes punishment as a set of images, a spectacle of condemnation. It recognizes that the semiotics of punishment is all around us, not just in the architecture of the prison, or the speech made by a judge as she sends someone to the penal colony, but in both \"high\" and \"popular\" culture iconography, in novels, television, and film. This book brings together distinguished scholars of punishment and experts in media studies in an unusual juxtaposition of disciplines and perspectives.
Americans continue to lock up more people for longer periods of time than most other nations, to use the death penalty, and to racialize punishment in remarkable ways. How are these facts of American penal life reflected in the portraits of punishment that Americans regularly encounter on television and in film? What are the conventions of genre which help to familiarize those portraits and connect them to broader political and cultural themes? Do television and film help to undermine punishment's moral claims? And how are developments in the boarder political economy reflected in the ways punishment appears in mass culture? Finally, how are images of punishment received by their audiences? It is to these questions thatPunishment in Popular Cultureis addressed.
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Law and the Citizen
This volume brings together an international and interdisciplinary array of scholars to explore issues around citizenship and law. With chapters on different elements of the relationship between law and citizenship, the volume makes a key contribution to the field and is essential reading for legal scholars.
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Cultural Expertise and Socio-Legal Studies
This special issue of Studies in Law, Politics, and Society aims to foster a dialogue that is inclusive, constructive, and innovative in order to lay the basis for evaluating the usefulness and impact of cultural expertise in modern litigation. It investigates the scope of cultural expertise as a new socio-legal concept that broadly concerns the use of social sciences in connection with rights and the solution of conflicts. While the definition of cultural expertise is new, the conflicts it applies to are not, and these range from criminal law to civil law, including international human rights.
In this special issue, socio-legal scientists with interdisciplinary backgrounds scrutinize the applicability of the notion of cultural expertise in Europe and the rest of the World. Cases include murder, female genital mutilation, earthquake claims, Islamic law, underage marriages, child custody, adoption, land rights, and asylum. The authors debate on a variety of themes, such as legal pluralism, ethnicity, causal determinism, reification of culture, and the \"culturalization\" of defendants. The volume concludes with an overview of the ethical implications of the definition of cultural expertise and suggestions for a way forward.
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Legal Intermediation
This special issue of Studies in Law, Politics and Society examines a broad range of European case studies to consider the crucial role played by intermediaries, such as companies and lawyers, in the legal system.
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After Imprisonment
Studies in Law, Politics, and Society provides a vehicle for the publication of scholarly articles in interdisciplinary legal scholarship. This volume features a special section with papers dedicated to life after imprisonment. The chapters examine issues around offender rehabilitation, overcriminalization, and mass incarceration.
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Special Issue: Problematizing Prostitution: Critical Research and Scholarship
The scholars who contribute to this issue utilize diverse research methods to examine the lived experiences of people engaged in prostitution and the people and institutions that process them.
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The Blackwell companion to law and society
The Blackwell Companion to Law and Society is an authoritative study of the relationship between law and social interaction. Thirty-two original essays by an international group of expert scholars examine a wide range of critical questions. Authors represent various theoretical, methodological, and political commitments, creating the first truly global overview of the field.
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* Examines the relationship between law and social interactions in thirty-three original essay by international experts in the field.
* Reflects the world-wide significance of North American law and society scholarship.
* Addresses classical areas and new themes in law and society research, including: the gap between law on the books and law in action; the complexity of institutional processes; the significance of new media; and the intersections of law and identity.
* Engages the exciting work now being done in England, Europe, Australia, and New Zealand, South Africa, Israel, as well as \"Third World\" scholarship.
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The handbook of law and society
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. - Provides illuminating insights into societal issues that pose ongoing real-world legal problems - Offers accessible, succinct overviews with in-depth coverage of each topic, including its evolution, current state, and directions for future research - Addresses a wide range of emergent topics in law and society and revisits perennial questions about law in a global world including the widening gap between codified laws and “law in action”, problems in the implementation of legal decisions, law’s constitutive role in shaping society, the importance of law in everyday life, ways legal institutions both embrace and resist change, the impact of new media and technologies on law, intersections of law and identity, law’s relationship to social consensus and conflict, and many more - Features contributions from 38 international expert scholars working in diverse fields at the intersections of legal studies and social sciences - Unique in its contributions to this rapidly expanding and important new multi-disciplinary field of study
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