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| Preface | |
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| The Social Nature and Significance of Law | |
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| The Significance of Law for Society and for Ourselves | |
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| The Social Functions of Law | |
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| The Dysfunctions of Law | |
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| The Study of Law and Society | |
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| Traditional and Social Science Views of Law | |
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| Assumptions in the Study of Law and Society | |
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| What Does Law and Society Study? | |
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| Law and Justice | |
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| The Case of the Speluncean Explorers | |
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| Law and Logic in Tumultuous Times | |
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| The Plan of the Book | |
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| Summary | |
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| Key Terms | |
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| Understanding Law and Society | |
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| What Is Law? | |
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| Selected Definitions of Law | |
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| Definitions of Law and the Existence of Law | |
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| Explanations of Law | |
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| Early Approaches | |
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| Contemporary Perspectives | |
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| Summary | |
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| Key Terms | |
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| Families and Types of Law | |
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| Families of Law | |
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| Common Law | |
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| Civil Law | |
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| Theocratic Law | |
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| Socialist Law | |
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| Traditional Law | |
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| Types of Law in the United States | |
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| Criminal Law | |
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| Civil Law | |
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| Executive Orders | |
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| Administrative Law | |
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| Other Distinctions | |
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| Special Topics | |
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| Military Law and Military Justice | |
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| Native American Law | |
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| International Law | |
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| Summary | |
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| Key Terms | |
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| Law and Dispute Processing | |
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| The Disputing Process | |
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| Stages in the Disputing Process | |
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| Methods of Dispute Processing | |
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| Explaining Dispute Processing Decisions | |
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| Societal Factors | |
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| Individual Factors | |
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| Dispute Processing in the United States | |
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| Dispute Processing and Litigiousness: Then and Now | |
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| Legal Consciousness and Going (or Not Going) to Court | |
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| The Litigation Crisis Controversy | |
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| Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) | |
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| Summary | |
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| Key Terms | |
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| Law and Social Control | |
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| Law, Deterrence, and Incapacitation | |
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| Deterrence: Conceptual Considerations | |
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| Research on Deterrence | |
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| The Issue of Incapacitation | |
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| Law, Morality, and Consensual Crime | |
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| Philosophical Considerations | |
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| Social Science Considerations | |
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| Repealing Consensual Crime Laws? | |
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| Special Topics in Law and Social Control | |
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| The Death Penalty Controversy | |
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| White-Collar Crime | |
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| Summary | |
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| Key Terms | |
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| Law and Social Change | |
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| The Impact of Social Change on Law: Law as Dependent Variable | |
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| Social Change and Fundamental Legal Change | |
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| Social Change and Specific Legal Developments | |
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| The Impact of Law on Social Change: Law as Independent Variable | |
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| Aspects of the Law to Social Change Relationship | |
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| The Limits of Law as a Social Change Vehicle | |
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| Problems in Assessing Legal Impact | |
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| Conditions That Maximize the Potential Impact of Legal Change | |
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| Law and Social Movements | |
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| Use of Law by Social Movements | |
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| Use of Law Against Social Movements | |
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| Summary | |
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| Key Terms | |
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| Law and Inequality | |
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| Law and Inequality in the American Past | |
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| Social Class | |
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| Race and Ethnicity | |
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| Gender | |
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| Contemporary Evidence | |
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| Social Class | |
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| Race and Ethnicity | |
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| Gender | |
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| Summary | |
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| Key Terms | |
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| The Legal Profession | |
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| Images and Perceptions of Lawyers | |
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| Reasons for the Negative Image | |
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| The Positive Image: Lawyer as Hero | |
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| History of the Legal Profession | |
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| Early Origins of Lawyers | |
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| Origin and Development of the American Legal Profession | |
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| The U.S. Legal Profession Today | |
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| Growth and Demographics of the Legal Profession | |
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| The Stratification and Social Organization of the Bar | |
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| Cause Lawyering | |
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| Women in the Law | |
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| Legal Ethics and Corruption | |
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| Satisfaction with Legal Careers | |
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| Law School and Legal Education | |
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| The Growth of the American Law School | |
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| Critique and Defense of Legal Education Today | |
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| Summary | |
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| Key Terms | |
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| Courts and Juries | |
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| Criminal Courts in the United States | |
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| Understanding the Criminal Court | |
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| Normal Crimes and the Courtroom Workgroup | |
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| Plea Bargaining: Evil, Necessary Evil, or Not Evil? | |
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| The Jury in Democratic Society | |
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| History of the Jury | |
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| How Well Does the Jury Perform? | |
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| The Issue of Jury Nullification | |
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| Summary | |
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| Key Terms | |
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| References | |
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| Glossary | |
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| Index | |