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Social Science, Social Policy & the Law Patricia Ewick, Robert Kagan, Austin Sarat, editors.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Law--Social aspects--United States--Congresses.
- Law.
- Social policy--Congresses.
- Social policy.
- Sociological jurisprudence--Congresses.
- Sociological jurisprudence.
- Genre:
- Electronic books.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (400 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Manufacture:
- Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2016
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Russell Sage Foundation, 1999.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Social science has been an important influence on legal thought since the legal realists of the1930s began to argue that laws should be socially workable as well as legally valid.
- Contents:
- Contents ; Contributors ; Acknowledgments ; Introduction. Legacies of Legal Realism: Social Science, Social Policy, and the Law / Patricia Ewick, Robert A. Kagan, and Austin Sarat ; Part I. Historical and Structural Analyses of Law ; Chapter 1. Privatization and Punishment: Lessons from History / Malcolm M. Feeley ; Chapter 2. On Stage: Some Historical Notes about Criminal Justice / Lawrence M. Friedman ; Chapter 3. Beyond the Law of Evidence: Facts and Inequality in Criminal Defense / Kenneth Mann ; Part II. Barriers to Influence
- Chapter 4. A Bad Press on Bad Lawyers: The Media Sees Research, Research Sees the Media / Deborah L. Rhode Chapter 5. Maps, Gaps, Sociolegal Scholarship, and the Tort Reform Debate / Neil Vidmar ; Chapter 6. Hunting for Bias: Notes on the Evolution of Strategies for Documenting Invidious Discrimination / Jack Katz ; Chapter 7. Good for What Purpose? Social Science, Race, and Proportionality Review in New Jersey / David Weisburd ; Part III. Law and the Reordering of Social Relations
- Chapter 8. Boundary Work: Levels of Analysis, the Macro-Micro Link, and the Social Control of Organizations / Diane Vaughan Chapter 9. When You Can't Just Say ""No"": Controlling Lawyers' Conflicts of Interest / Susan P. Shapiro ; Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 1-61044-191-5
- OCLC:
- 906809504
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