00000nam a2200000 i 4500 UP-1686042739785059822 Buklod 20240712104838.0 m o d cr |nu|||uuu|a 240712s2015 nju j eng 9781118701461 9781118701430 (Online) 18494341 DLC eng DMLR rda eng K 376 H36 2015eb The handbook of law and society edited by Austin Sarat and Patricia Ewick. Hoboken, New Jersey John Wiley & Sons 2015. 1 online resource. text rdacontent computer rdamedia online resource rdacarrier Wiley handbooks in criminology and criminal justice includes index. "Bringing a timely synthesis to the field, The Handbook of Law and Society presents a comprehensive overview of key research findings, theoretical developments, and methodological controversies in the field of law and society. • Provides illuminating insights into societal issues that pose ongoing real-world legal problems. • Offers accessible, succinct overviews with in-depth coverage of each topic, including its evolution, current state, and directions for future research. • Addresses a wide range of emergent topics in law and society and revisits perennial questions about law in a global world including the widening gap between codified laws and “law in action”, problems in the implementation of legal decisions, law’s constitutive role in shaping society, the importance of law in everyday life, ways legal institutions both embrace and resist change, the impact of new media and technologies on law, intersections of law and identity, law’s relationship to social consensus and conflict, and many more. • Features contributions from 38 international expert scholars working in diverse fields at the intersections of legal studies and social sciences. • Unique in its contributions to this rapidly expanding and important new multi-disciplinary field of study." Provided by publisher. Sociological jurisprudence. Law Social aspects. Sarat, Austin editor. Ewick, Patricia editor. Available for UP System via Wiley Online Library https://doi.org/10.1002/9781118701430 FO UPD DMLR K 376 H36 2015EB Electronic Resource