Law & society books

Modern Land Law is one of the most current and reliable textbooks available on land law today, offering a lively...  Read More >>

Criminal justice refers to the system of practices and organizations, which are used for maintaining social control,...  Read More >>

The veiling and unveiling of women have been controversial issues in Turkey since the late-Ottoman period. It was...  Read More >>

Employing an interdisciplinary, comparative approach, this book explores the inconsistent treatment of victims of...  Read More >>

At the intersection of law, feminism and philosophy, this book analyses the ways in which certain bodies and ‘selves’...  Read More >>

Appellate judges wield enormous influence in the United States. Their decisions define the scope of legislative...  Read More >>

The Fifteenth edition equips students with a thorough understanding of the UK constitution’s past, present and future...  Read More >>

This book explores the use of agreements to establish or alter rights and duties in a family, and family law, context....  Read More >>

"""Undergraduate text on gender issues within the law""--"  Read More >>

This book explores the use of agreements to establish or alter rights and duties in a family, and family law, context....  Read More >>

This book explores the issue of abortion and women's rights in contemporary China. With a vast population, China's...  Read More >>

A key text for gender aware readers/researchers that includes accounts of 'lived experience'. Outlines tools, methods...  Read More >>

Unsealed Covers provides a unique terrain where the actions of the judiciary and its relationship with the government...  Read More >>

This book examines the law in relation to how it has responded to sexual and gender issues in the context of Hong...  Read More >>

Rotten to its Core, a quote by Leslie Thomas K.C. as he described Greater Manchester Police. Now a book title...  Read More >>

Through close readings of a range of popular Hollywood speculative fiction films including The Dark Knight, Unbreakable,...  Read More >>

Drawing on primary sources including novels, Victorian periodical literature, legislative debate, case law and legal...  Read More >>

Tina Sikka explores many of the contradictions and tensions that make up the increasingly fraught debates about...  Read More >>

"""Transsexualism and its Discontents,"" authored by Sheila Mengert, is a profound exploration of the transgender...  Read More >>

""Explores the failures of family court and calls for immediate and permanent change""--  Read More >>

The Routledge Handbook on the International Dimension of Transatlantic Relations is an essential and comprehensive...  Read More >>

This book investigates how offenders of white-collar crime misuse legal loopholes in the courtroom. From powerful...  Read More >>

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"American'boys'are'in'trouble.''Or'so'it'seems.''Following'the'release'of'a' report'from'the'National'Center'for'Education'Statistics'and'the'US'Department'......  Read More >>

This book exposes how inequalities based on class and social background arise from employment practices in the digital...  Read More >>