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Butterfly, the Bride
Carol Weisbrod uses a variety of stories to raise important questions about how society, through law, defines relationships in the family. Beginning with a story most familiar from …
Among the Lowest of the Dead
Recently updated and derived from more than 100 in-depth Interviews and tens of thousands of pages of documentary material, Among the Lowest of the Dead gives readers an …
Punishment and Political Order
What is the role of punishment in a just society? What is the connection between social control and social order? This book offers a study of punishment's place in utopian …
The Possibility of Popular Justice
The Possibility of Popular Justice is essential reading for scholars and practitioners of community mediation and should be very high on the list of anyone seriously concerned with …
Law Stories
"War stories" is the phrase used by academic lawyers to disparage the ways practicing lawyers talk about their experiences. Gary Bellow and Martha Minow in Law Stories have …
From Noose to Needle
From Noose to Needle contributes a new perspective on the controversial topic of capital punishment by asking how the conduct of state killing reveals broader contradictions in the …
Punishing Schools
In a society increasingly dominated by zero-tolerance thinking, ""Punishing Schools"" argues that our educational system has become both the subject of legislative punishment and …
Surveillance, Privacy and the Law
Employee drug testing is an invasive and controversial new social control policy that burst into the American work place during the war on drugs of the 1980s. Workers, judges, and …
Communities and Law
Communities and Law looks at minorities, or nonruling communities, and their identity practices under state domination in the midst of globalization. It examines six sociopolitical …
Transformative Justice
Can Israel be both Jewish and democratic? Transformative Justice, Leora Bilsky's landmark study of Israeli political trials, poses this deceptively simple question. The four trials …
Jurors' Stories of Death
Fleury-Steiner draws on the experiences of white and black jurors in capital punishment trials to discuss the effect of race on the sentencing process in America. He shows how …
Lives of Lawyers Revisited
The legal profession has been powerfully transformed over the past two decades. ""Lives of Lawyers Revisited"" offers unique in-sights into the nature of this change through the …