Travels of the criminal question

cultural embeddedness and diffusion

'The criminal question' draws attention to the specific location and constitution of a given field of forces, and the themes, issues, dilemmas and debates that compose it. At the same time it enables connections to be made between these embedded realities and the wider, conceivably ...

The legal tender of gender

Law, welfare and the regulation of women's poverty

Extensive welfare, law and policy reforms characterized the making and unmaking of Keynesian states in the twentieth century. This collection highlights the gendered nature of these regulatory shifts and, specifically, the roles played by women as reformers, welfare workers and welfare recipients, in the development ...

Human Rights at work

perspectives on Law and regulation

Concerns associated with globalisation of markets, exacerbated by the 'credit crunch', have placed pressure on many nation states to make their labour markets more 'flexible'. In so doing, many states have sought to reduce labour standards and to diminish the influence of trade unions as ...

Living Law

reconsidering Eugen Ehrlich

Ed. Marc Hertogh. Eugen Ehrlich (1862-1922) was an eminent Austrian legal theorist and professor of Roman law. He is considered by many as one of the 'founding fathers' of modern sociology of law. Although the importance of his work (including his concept of 'living law ...

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 Collective Memories situates the processes of transitional justice at the intersection between legal procedures and the production of collective ...

Changing contours of domestic life, family and Law

caring and sharing

Eds. Anne Bottomley, Simone Wong. Drawing from a wide range of material and socio-legal methods, this collection brings together original essays, written by internationally renowned scholars, investigating emerging patterns in the shape and form of the legal regulation of domestic relations. Taking as a focus ...

Criminology and archaeology

studies in Looted Antiquities

This collection is the product of a collaborative venture between criminologists and archaeologists concerned with the international market in illicit antiquities. It examines the state of regulation in the antiquities market, with a particular focus on the UK's position, but also with reference to ...

Fighting form political freedom

comparative studies if the legal complex and political liberalism

The case studies in this text present new lines of enquiry into the relationship between lawyers and political liberalism. Political freedom is still a contested issue in many countries. These studies will be of interest to legal theorists, political scientists and sociologists. The editors are ...

Parenting after partnering

containing conflict separation

This is a series of up-to-date studies of the relationship between parents and children after separation. Mavis Maclean' is a leading scholar of family law and has written extensively in the field. This book will be a valuable source of information for academics and family ...

Responsible business

self-governance and Law in transnational economic transactions

With the globalisation of markets, the phenomenon of market failure has also been globalised. Against the backdrop of the territoriality of nation state jurisdictions and the slow progress of international law based on the principle of sovereignty this poses a serious challenge. However, while the ...

Women, crime and social harm

towards a criminology for the Global Era

Eds. Maureen Cain, Adrian Howe. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ This book is by and about women. The book examines the harms and crimes to which women are subjected to as a result of global social processes, and their efforts to take control of their own futures.

Regulating deviance

the redirection of criminalisation and the futures of criminal Law

The criminal attacks that occurred in the United States on 11 September 2001 have profoundly altered and reshaped the priorities of criminal justice systems around the world. Domestic criminal law has become a vehicle for criminalising 'new' terrorist offences and other transnational forms of criminality ...

Contractual certainty in international trade

empirical studies and theoretical debates in institutional support for global economic exchanges

Global business interacts efficiently despite the heterogeneity of social, economic and legal cultures which, according to widespread assumptions, cause insecurities and uncertainties. Breaches of contracts may occur more frequently and business relationships may be terminated more often in international than in domestic trade. But most ...

Multicultural jurisprudence

comparative perspectives on the cultural defense

As individuals travel across borders, societies have become more and more pluralistic. The result of increased migration is the interaction among cultural communities and inevitably clashes between state law and customary law. These cultural conflicts have given rise to a new multicultural jurisprudence. In this ...

Crafting transnational policing

police capacity-building and global policing reform

This book examines the phenomenon of crafting transnational policing. By this term is meant the different forms of engagement in policing reform by international donors, national governments, foreign police and law enforcement agencies in the domestic policing agencies and programs of recipient countries. It includes ...

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 relationships, between meeting current or future needs, but also between private norms and the demands of a public set of rules ...