Buch, Englisch, 596 Seiten, Format (B × H): 191 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 1122 g
Introductory Readings
Buch, Englisch, 596 Seiten, Format (B × H): 191 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 1122 g
ISBN: 978-0-19-533034-2
Verlag: Oxford University Press
Austin Sarat's The Social Organization of Law: Introductory Readings begins with a simple premise--law seeks to work in the world, to order, change, and give meaning to society--and describes legal processes as socially organized. This book connects legal studies to the study of society in two different senses.
First, the readings highlight law's responsiveness to various dimensions of social stratification. They also draw attention to the questions of when, why, and how legal decisions and actions respond to the social characteristics (e.g. race, class, and gender) of those making the decisions as well as those who are subject to them. These questions inevitably raise issues of justice and fairness, highlighting the moral dimensions of legal life.
Second, Sarat treats law itself as a social organization, emphasizing the complex relations between its various component parts (e.g., judges and jurors, police and prosecutors, appellate courts, and trial courts). The book examines the traditional subject of professional legal study--namely appellate court opinions--and describes some of the most pressing controversies of legal interpretation while questioning how those opinions take on meaning in social life. Sarat also questions whether those at the top of law's bureaucratic structure effectively control the behavior of others in the legal system's chain of command.
This anthology provides accessible, up-to-date materials (such as readings on terrorism and the challenges it poses to law, racial profiling, and gay rights) juxtaposed to the classics of the field. Introductions to each reading, along with the notes and questions written by the author, unpack the issues and engage students, enabling them to link the material from one chapter to another. Additional suggested readings provide stimulus for further inquiry.
The Social Organization of Law offers students a broad perspective that treats law as a set of institutions and practices combining moral argument, distinctive interpretive traditions, and the social organization of violence.
Fachgebiete
- Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Rechtssoziologie
- Rechtswissenschaften Recht, Rechtswissenschaft Allgemein Rechtssoziologie, Rechtspsychologie, Rechtslinguistik
- Rechtswissenschaften Recht, Rechtswissenschaft Allgemein Rechtstheorie, Rechtsmethodik, Rechtsdogmatik, Rechtsprechungslehre
Weitere Infos & Material
- Introduction
- Part I. When Law Fails
- Section 1. The Limits of Legal Protection
- 1. 'Hockey Dad's Death Probed as Homicide,' Ed Hayward and David Talbot
- 2. 'Dad Sentenced to 6 to 10 Years for Rink Death,' Geraldine Baum
- 3. DeShaney v. Winnebago
- 4. 'A Crime of Self Defense,' George Fletcher
- 5. 'In the Nation's Capital, It's the Season of Insecurity,' Jon Schmitz, Pittsburgh Post Gazette
- 6. 'The Spirit of the Laws,' Harold Koh
- Section 2. What Law Is For
- 7. 'Leviathan,' Thomas Hobbes
- 8. 'Law as a Weapon in Social Conflict,' Austin Turk
- 9. 'On Liberty,' John Stuart Mill
- 10. Lawrence v. Texas
- 11. 'Law as Rhetoric, Rhetoric as Law,' James Boyd White
- Part II. The Search for Law
- Section 3. Three Dilemmas of Social Organization
- Accessibility
- 12. 'Before the Law,' Franz Kafka
- Severity and Leniency
- 13. 'Property, Authority and the Criminal Law,' Douglas Hay
- Bureaucratic Control and Rule Following
- 14. 'Violence and the Word,' Robert Cover
- Part III. Access to Justice: The Demand for Law and Law's Demands
- Section 4. Lining Up at the Door of Law
- 15. 'The Emergence and Transformation of Disputes,' William Felstiner, Richard Abel, and Austin Sarat
- 16. 'Liability: The Legal Revolution and Its Consequences,' Peter Huber
- 17. 'The Crisis Is Injuries, Not Liability,' Richard Abel
- 18. 'How Jury Decided How Much the Coffee Spill Was Worth,' Andrea Gerling
- 19. 'Jurors' Judgments of Business Liability in Tort Cases,' Valerie Hans and William Loftquist
- Section 5. Lawyers in Civil Cases
- 20. 'Lawyers and Consumer Protection Laws,' Stewart Macaulay
- 21. 'The Justice Broker: Lawyers and Ordinary Litigation,' Hebert Kritzer
- 22. 'The Impact of Legal Counsel on Outcomes for Poor Tenants in New York City's Housing Court,' Carroll Seron et al.
- Section 6. Whose Law Is It Anyway?
- 23. Rusk v. Maryland
- 24. 'Rape,' Susan Estrich
- 25. 'Risking Relationships,' Phoebe Morgan
- 26. 'Rights Talk and the Experience of Law,' Sally Engle Merry
- Section 7. Who Speaks and Who Is Heard: The Continuing Significance of Class
- 27. Goldberg v. Kelley
- 28. 'Subordination, Rhetorical Survival Skills, and Sunday Shoes,' Lucie White
- 29. 'Dependency by Law,' Frank Munger
- Part IV. Severity and Leniency: Administering a System of Discretionary Justice
- Section 8. From Severity to Leniency: Plea Bargaining and the Possibility of Justice
- 30. 'American Courts: Process and Policy,' Lawrence Baum
- 31. Scott v. United States
- 32. 'Torture and Plea Bargaining,' John Langbein
- Section 9. Lawyers in Criminal Cases
- 33. 'Convictability and Discordant Locales,' Lisa Frohmann
- 34. 'Understanding Lawyers' Ethics,' Monroe Freedman and Abbe Smith
- 35. 'Fine Line in Indictment: Defense vs. Complicity,' Laura Mansnerus
- 36. 'Defending White Collar Crime,' Kenneth Mann
- 37. 'The Practice of Law as a Confidence Game,' Abraham S. Blumberg
- Section 10. Juries in Criminal Cases: Biased or Conscientious Judgment
- 38. 'Trial By Jury,' Alex de Tocqueville
- 39. 'Are Twelve Heads Better Than One?' Phoebe Ellsworth
- 40. 'Jury Duty: When History and Life Coincide,' Elisabeth Perry
- 41. 'When Race Trumps Truth in Court,' Michael Weiss and Karl Zinsmeister
- 42. United States v. Thomas
- Section 11. Sentencing
- 43. 'Federal Sentencing Guidelines: A View From the Bench,' Nancy Gertner
- 44. Ewing v. California
- 45. 'Thirty Years of Sentencing Reform,' Cassia Spohn
- 46. 'Sizing up Sentences,' Michael Higgins
- Part V. Organizing Law's Violence
- Section 12. Policing the Police
- 47. 'Justice Without Trial,' Jerome Skolnick
- 48. 'Broken Windows,' James Q. Wilson and George Kelling
- 49. 'Policing Disorder,' Bernard Harcourt
- 50. 'Profiles in Justice? Police Discretion, Symbolic Assailants, and Stereotyping,' Milton Heumann and Lance Cassak
- 51. 'The Myth of Racial Profiling,' Heather MacDonald
- 52. Tennessee v. Garner
- 53. 'Officers in Bronx Fire 41 Shots, and an Unarmed Man Is Killed,' Michael Cooper, New York Times
- 54. 'To Shoot or Not? Fellow Officers Say They Fear Facing Same Decision,' Katherine Finkelstein, New York Times
- 55. 'Want to Torture? Get a Warrant,' Alan M. Dershowitz
- Section 13. Punishment: Imprisonment
- 56. 'Persons and Punishment,' Herbert Morris
- 57. 'Punishment, Power, and Justice,' Patricia Ewick
- 58. United States v. Bailey
- 59. 'Deadly Symbiosis: Rethinking Race and Imprisonment in Twenty-First Century America,' Loïc Wacquant
- Section 14. The Death Penalty: Controlling Juries/Preventing Discrimination
- 60. Furman v. Georgia
- 61. Gregg v. Georgia
- 62. McClesky v. Kemp
- 63. 'Folk Knowledge as Legal Action,' Benjamin Steiner et al.
- Section 15. The Future of Capital Punishment
- 64. 'God's Justice and Ours,' Antonin Scalia
- 65. 'I Must Act,' George Ryan
