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Studies in Law, Politics and Society, 45.
Offers fresh perspectives on sentencing and punishment, lawyering for the public good, and the meaning of legal doctrine. This book contains articles that exemplify the work being done in interdisciplinary legal scholarship.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Bradford :
Emerald Group Pub.,
2008.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Studies in Law, Politics, and Society; Copyright page; Contents; List of contributors; Editorial Board; Part I: On Sentencing and Punishment; Chapter 1. Reconceptualizing victimization and agency in the discourse of battered women who kill; Chapter 2. Contextual constraints on defendants' apologies at sentencing; Chapter 3. Blood relations: Collective memory, cultural trauma, and the prosecution and execution of timothy McVeigh; Chapter 4. Power, politics, and penality: Punitiveness as backlash in American democracies; Part II: Lawyering for the Public Good?; Chapter 5. Legal aid's logics.
- Chapter 6. Cause lawyers as legal innovators with and against the state: Symbiosis or oppositionquestPart III: New Perspectives in Legal Doctrine; Chapter 7. Ignored no longer: Contributions of the law of agency to principal-agency theory and congressional leadership; Chapter 8. Reforming labor law in the Czech republic: International sources of change.