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Book Law  Justice  and the Individual in Society

Download or read book Law Justice and the Individual in Society written by June Louin Tapp and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Published for the Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues.

Book Law  Justice  and the Individual in Society

Download or read book Law Justice and the Individual in Society written by June Louin Tapp and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Published for the Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues.

Book The Law   Society Reader

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  • Author : Richard L. Abel
  • Publisher : NYU Press
  • Release : 1995-05
  • ISBN : 0814706185
  • Pages : 463 pages

Download or read book The Law Society Reader written by Richard L. Abel and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 1995-05 with total page 463 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of 19 articles drawn from the Law and Society Review. Written by sociologists, legal scholars, and political scientists, the chapters are divided into sections on disputing, social control, norm creation, regulation, equality, ideology and consciousness, and the legal profession. Each chapter is followed by discussion questions, while methodological discussion and references have been pruned from the original articles for the purpose of this reader. Lacks an index. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Book Radical Enfranchisement in the Jury Room and Public Life

Download or read book Radical Enfranchisement in the Jury Room and Public Life written by Sonali Chakravarti and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2020-01-24 with total page 159 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Juries have been at the center of some of the most emotionally charged moments of political life. At the same time, their capacity for legitimate decision making has been under scrutiny, because of events like the acquittal of George Zimmerman by a Florida jury for the shooting of Trayvon Martin and the decisions of several grand juries not to indict police officers for the killing of unarmed black men. Meanwhile, the overall use of juries has also declined in recent years, with most cases settled or resolved by plea bargain. With Radical Enfranchisement in the Jury Room and Public Life, Sonali Chakravarti offers a full-throated defense of juries as a democratic institution. She argues that juries provide an important site for democratic action by citizens and that their use should be revived. The jury, Chakravarti argues, could be a forward-looking institution that nurtures the best democratic instincts of citizens, but this requires a change in civic education regarding the skills that should be cultivated in jurors before and through the process of a trial. Being a juror, perhaps counterintuitively, can guide citizens in how to be thoughtful rule-breakers by changing their relationship to their own perceptions and biases and by making options for collective action salient, but they must be better prepared and instructed along the way.

Book American Legal Realism and Empirical Social Science

Download or read book American Legal Realism and Empirical Social Science written by John Henry Schlegel and published by Univ of North Carolina Press. This book was released on 2000-11-09 with total page 433 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John Henry Schlegel recovers a largely ignored aspect of American Legal Realism, a movement in legal thought in the 1920s and 1930s that sought to bring the modern notion of empirical science into the study and teaching of law. In this book, he explores individual Realist scholars' efforts to challenge the received notion that the study of law was primarily a matter of learning rules and how to manipulate them. He argues that empirical research was integral to Legal Realism, and he explores why this kind of research did not, finally, become a part of American law school curricula. Schlegel reviews the work of several prominent Realists but concentrates on the writings of Walter Wheeler Cook, Underhill Moore, and Charles E. Clark. He reveals how their interest in empirical research was a product of their personal and professional circumstances and demonstrates the influence of John Dewey's ideas on the expression of that interest. According to Schlegel, competing understandings of the role of empirical inquiry contributed to the slow decline of this kind of research by professors of law. Originally published in 1995. A UNC Press Enduring Edition -- UNC Press Enduring Editions use the latest in digital technology to make available again books from our distinguished backlist that were previously out of print. These editions are published unaltered from the original, and are presented in affordable paperback formats, bringing readers both historical and cultural value.

Book Law and Society

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  • Author : Steven Vago
  • Publisher : Routledge
  • Release : 2015-07-14
  • ISBN : 131734684X
  • Pages : 647 pages

Download or read book Law and Society written by Steven Vago and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-07-14 with total page 647 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For one-semester undergraduate courses in Law and Society, Sociology of Law, Introduction to Law, and a variety of criminal justice courses offered in departments of Sociology, Criminal Justice, and Political Science. Examines the interplay between law and society. Law and Society, 10e provides an informative, balanced and comprehensive analysis of the interplay between law and society. This text presents an overview of the most advanced interdisciplinary and international research, theoretical advances, ongoing debates and controversies. It raises new levels of awareness on the structure and functions of law and legal systems and the principal players in the legal arena and their impact on our lives. In addition, it looks at the legal system in the context of race, class, and gender and considers multicultural and cross-cultural issues in a contemporary and interdisciplinary context.

Book Theory of Societal Constitutionalism

Download or read book Theory of Societal Constitutionalism written by David Sciulli and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1992 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author argues that the existing conceptual frameworks of political and social theory restrict both theorists and empirical researchers to a narrow definition of authoritarianism that focuses on governmental structure and fails to take account of forms of social control exercised outside the governmental sphere. Rather than define authoritarianism primarily by contrast to liberal democracy, Sciulli argues, we need to broaden our conception of authoritarianism to include "social authoritarianism," referring to social control imposed by private organizations and institutions, such as business corporations and professional associations. In this book, Sciulli develops an alternative conceptual framework, which he calls the theory of societal constitutionalism, and he explains how the theory can be used to assess whether social order in a society, whether democratic or authoritarian in political rule, is characterized by some degree of social authoritarianism. The book will be important reading for theorists in sociology, political science and legal studies.

Book Towards a Science of International Arbitration

Download or read book Towards a Science of International Arbitration written by Christopher R. Drahozal and published by Kluwer Law International B.V.. This book was released on 2005-01-01 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Most books on international commercial arbitration approach the subject through legal theory supported by anecdotal evidence. This remarkable book is distinguished by its focus on the application of quantitative empirical research to the study of international arbitration. It collects, together with commentary, the existing empirical literature on the subject, and also presents several studies published here for the first time. Beginning with a basic overview of the methods of empirical research (surveys, observational studies, experimental studies), the book goes on to reprint the existing empirical studies under six headings: why parties agree to arbitrate; arbitration clauses; arbitral procedures; arbitrator selection; rules of decision and applicable law; and, arbitration awards. Written in an easily accessible, non-technical manner, Towards a Science of International Arbitration provides the starting point for future empirical research on international arbitration by collecting the existing empirical literature in one place and by suggesting possible topics for research. It will be of inestimable value to lawyers and others involved in international dispute resolution, whether as arbitrators, parties, party representatives, or in-house counsel, as well as to academics interested in methods of resolving disputes in international commerce.

Book Measures to Combat Racism and Racial Discrimination and the Role of the Sub commission

Download or read book Measures to Combat Racism and Racial Discrimination and the Role of the Sub commission written by United Nations. Economic and Social Council and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 46 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Reforming Punishment

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  • Author : Craig Haney
  • Publisher : American Psychological Association (APA)
  • Release : 2006
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 416 pages

Download or read book Reforming Punishment written by Craig Haney and published by American Psychological Association (APA). This book was released on 2006 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This hard-hitting book challenges current prison practice and points to ways psychologists and policy makers can strive for a more humane justice system.

Book Dealing in Virtue

Download or read book Dealing in Virtue written by Yves Dezalay and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1996-08-15 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In recent years, international business disputes have increasingly been resolved through private arbitration. This book details how an elite group of transnational lawyers constructed an autonomous legal field that has given them a central and powerful role in the global marketplace.

Book Contemporary Moral Arguments

Download or read book Contemporary Moral Arguments written by Lewis Vaughn and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2010 with total page 740 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Taking a unique approach that emphasizes careful reasoning, this reader is structured around 28 key arguments that have provoked heated debates on current ethical issues. -- Publisher description

Book Documents

    Book Details:
  • Author : United Nations. Economic and Social Council
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1982
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 1122 pages

Download or read book Documents written by United Nations. Economic and Social Council and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 1122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Juror Factor

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  • Author : Sean G. Overland
  • Publisher : LFB Scholarly Publishing
  • Release : 2009
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 198 pages

Download or read book The Juror Factor written by Sean G. Overland and published by LFB Scholarly Publishing. This book was released on 2009 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Juror Factor examines how jurors reach their verdicts in complex civil trials. In particular, the book explores the relationship between "juror factors" - that is, jurors' race, gender, income, education and personal beliefs - and verdicts. While most research has found no link between verdicts and "juror factors," this book, using new, previously unavailable data, argues that the composition of a jury can have a strong effect on the outcome of a trial. The book also explores the implications of this relationship for jury selection procedures and tort reform proposals. The book's final chapter offers a glimpse behind the closed doors of the jury room and a look at the effects of jury deliberations.

Book Current Publications in Legal and Related Fields

Download or read book Current Publications in Legal and Related Fields written by and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Bibliographic Index

Download or read book Bibliographic Index written by and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 600 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: