Skip to content
Cart (0) Free shipping over $35*
Buybacks (0) Free shipping on buybacks
loading
Help Contact
Return rental ›

Law and Society Reader

Best in textbook rentals since 2012!

ISBN-10: 0814706185

ISBN-13: 9780814706183

Edition: 1995

Authors: Richard L. Abel

List price: $35.00
Blue ribbon 30 day, 100% satisfaction guarantee!
Marketplace
4 new & used from $2.96
what's this?
Rush Rewards U
Members Receive:
Carrot Coin icon
XP icon
You have reached 400 XP and carrot coins. That is the daily max!

Description:

This book seeks to provide answers to everything you ever wanted to know about the lawexcept what the rules are or ought to be. For centuries, the law has been considered a neutral, objective arena that sets societal standards and in which conflicting forces resolve disputes. More recently, however, the interaction between law and society has been recognized as a two-way street: society clearly exacts a considerable influence on the practice and evolution of law. Further, the discrepancy between what the law mandates and what the social reality is has served as evidence of the chasm between theory and practice, between the abstraction of law and its actual societal effects. Examining such…    
Customers also bought

Book details

List price: $35.00
Copyright year: 1995
Publisher: New York University Press
Publication date: 5/1/1995
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 450
Size: 6.93" wide x 9.96" long x 1.10" tall
Weight: 1.738
Language: English

Author of American Lawyers and, most recently, Politics by Other Means: Law in the Struggle Against Apartheid, 1980-1994, Richard L. Abel is Professor of Law at the University of California, Los Angeles. A past president of the Law and Society Association, he has also edited The Law and Society Review.

Preface
About the Authors
What We Talk About When We Talk About Law
The Oven Bird's Song: Insiders, Outsiders, and Personal Injuries in an American Community
Going to Court: Strategies of Dispute Management in an American Urban Neighborhood
The Management of Disputes: Automobile Accident Compensation in Japan
Community Justice, Capitalist Society, and Human Agency: The Dialectics of Collective Law in the Cooperative
The Selectivity of Legal Sanctions: An Empirical Investigation of Shoplifting
The Paradoxical Impact of Criminal Sanctions: Some Microstructural Findings
Plea Bargaining and Its History
Holistic Effects in Social Control Decision-Making
Mandatory Sentencing and the Abolition of Plea Bargaining: The Michigan Felony Firearm Statute
The New Dutch and German Drug Laws: Social and Political Conditions for Criminalization and Decriminalization
Worker Safety, Law, and Social Change: The Italian Case
Organizational Compliance with Court-Ordered Reform
Penetrability of Administrative Systems: Political "Casework" and Immigration Inspections
Why the "Haves" Come Out Ahead: Speculations on the Limits of Legal Change
Race and Prosecutorial Discretion in Homicide Cases
Structure and Practice of Familial-Based Justice in a Criminal Court
The Uses of History: Language, Ideology, and Law in the United States and South Africa
Lay Expectations of the Civil Justice System
Law and Social Relations: Vocabularies of Motive in Lawyer/Client Interaction
References
  • TextbookRush.com BBB Business Review
  • Trustpilot
Like TextbookRush on Facebook Follow TextbookRush on X Follow TextbookRush on Instagram Subscribe to TextbookRush on YouTube Follow TextbookRush on Pinterest Add TextbookRush on Snapchat Add TextbookRush on TikTok
© 2002-2024 TextbookRush
Subscribe