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Travels of the Criminal Question
The expression 'the criminal question' does not at present have much currency in English-language criminology. The term was carried across from Italian debates about the …
Human Rights Encounter Legal Pluralism
This collection of essays interrogates how human rights law and practice acquire meaning in relation to legal pluralism, ie, the co-existence of more than one regulatory order in a …
Luhmann on Law and Politics
Perhaps more than any other social theorist in recent history, Niklas Luhmann's work has aroused extreme, and often antagonistic, responses. It has generated controversies about …
Legal Institutions and Collective Memories
In recent decades the debate among scholars, lawyers, politicians and others about how societies deal with their past has been constant and intensive. Legal Institutions and …
Criminal Policy in Transition
Criminal Policy in Transition comes along at a time when the literature in criminology is desperately short of "global" perspectives. It helps fill that gap while it presents …
Delivering Family Justice in the 21st Century
Family justice requires not only a legal framework within which personal obligations are regulated over the life course, but also a justice system which can deliver legal …
Juvenile Law Violators, Human Rights, and the Development of New Juvenile Justice Systems
This volume brings together scholars and practitioners specialising in juvenile justice from the US and Europe alongside scholars from Africa and Asia who are working on human …
Poverty and the Law
This collection of essays focuses attention on the global impact of legal policies on levels of poverty. They illustrate the distinct dimensions of poverty in a range of different …
Regulatory Transformations
The issue of whether transnational risk can be regulated through a social sphere goes to the heart of what John Ruggie has described as ‘embedded liberalism’: how capitalist …
Fundamental Rights and Legal Consequences of Criminal Conviction
The legal position of convicted offenders is complex, as are the social consequences that can result from a criminal conviction. After they have served their sentences, custodial …
Making Law for Families
Making Law for Families is the result of a workshop organized by Mavis Maclean and held between May 26 and June 2,1999, at the international Institute for the Sociology of Law …
Women’s Rights to Social Security and Social Protection
This collection examines the human rights to social security and social protection from a women’s rights perspective. The contributors stress the need to address women’s poverty …