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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 …
Family Law and Family Values
Each individual experiences obligations arising from personal relationships. These are often hard to fulfil and give rise to tension between the demands of various …
Gender and Judging
Does gender make a difference to the way the judiciary works and should work? Or is gender-blindness a built-in prerequisite of judicial objectivity? If gender does make a …
Criminal Justice and the Ideal Defendant in the Making of Remorse and Responsibility
This book investigates how defendants are assessed by criminal justice decisionmakers, such as judges, lawyers, probation officers, parole board members and those involved in …
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, Europe, alongside scholars from Africa and Asia who are working on human rights …
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 …
Making Human Rights Intelligible
Human rights have become a defining feature of contemporary society, permeating public discourse on politics, law and culture. But why did human rights emerge as a key social force …
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 …