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Locating Law
Elizabeth Comack
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Description for Locating Law
Paperback. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: LAQ; LAR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 19. Weight in Grams: 476.
A primary concern within the study of law has been to understand the "law-society" relation. Underlying this concern is the belief that law has a distinctly social basis; it both shapes - and is shaped by - the society in which it operates. This book explores the law-society relation by locating law within the nexus of race/class/gender/sexuality relations in society. In addition to updating the material in the theoretical and substantive chapters, this third edition of Locating Law includes three new contributions: sentencing law and Aboriginal peoples; corporations and the law; and obscenity and indecency legislation. ... Read more
A primary concern within the study of law has been to understand the "law-society" relation. Underlying this concern is the belief that law has a distinctly social basis; it both shapes - and is shaped by - the society in which it operates. This book explores the law-society relation by locating law within the nexus of race/class/gender/sexuality relations in society. In addition to updating the material in the theoretical and substantive chapters, this third edition of Locating Law includes three new contributions: sentencing law and Aboriginal peoples; corporations and the law; and obscenity and indecency legislation. ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Fernwood Publishing Co Ltd Canada
Number of pages
336
Condition
New
Number of Pages
336
Place of Publication
Black Point, Nova Scotia, Canada
ISBN
9781552666579
SKU
V9781552666579
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About Elizabeth Comack
Elizabeth Comack is a professor of Sociology at the University of Manitoba. Over the past three decades she has written and conducted research on a variety of social justice topics. Her most recent book is Racialized Policing: Aboriginal People's Encounters with the Police (Fernwood 2012). Elizabeth's current research projects stem from her involvement in the Manitoba Research Alliance's SSHRC Partnership ... Read more
Reviews for Locating Law
"This book is the best available for teaching the role of law in society and making sense of how it operates within the (inter)connections of race, class and gender dynamics often perpetuating oppression. - Locating Law is essential for undergraduate students in justice, sociology and criminology." - Margot Hurlbert, University of Regina "Students regularly tell me that ... Read more