Social Problems, Law, And Society
This collection of articles presents a critical, issue-oriented approach to law and society, emphasizing its important relationship to contemporary social problems. By exploring the interstitial area between the sociology of law, social problems and social movements, the initial chapters trace out a theoretical trajectory which points to the need to move beyond traditional and social constructionist approaches. A variety of empirical studies together explore the contradictory dynamics of...
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This volume represents a critical, issue-oriented approach to law and society, emphasizing its important relationship to contemporary social problems. Various empirical studies within the text explore the contradictory dynamics of class as they relate to race and gender in both a national and global context, illustrating the dialectical interplay between the state and social movements in the context of the larger political economy.
Pt. IEstablishing the context11Critical perspectives on law and society : a Social problems approach32Law and social change : bringing social movements into the dialectic19Pt. IICritical views on social problems, conflict, and law : beyond constructionism413Ontological gerrymandering : the anatomy of social problems explanations45Commentary on "ontological gerrymandering" : towards a sociological deconstruction of social problems624Deviant behavior and the remaking of the world695A sociological analysis of the law of vagrancy876Law as a weapon in social conflict1017Empiricism and the critique of Marxism on law and crime109Pt. IIILaw and conflicts of class, race, and gender1258Legal limits on labor militancy : U.S. labor law and the right to strike since the New Deal1299The racial basis of capitalism and the state, and the impact of the New Deal on African Americans15710Promoting civil rights through the welfare state : how Medicare integrated southern hospitals17711Managing differences and making legislation : social movements and the racialization, sexualization, and gendering of federal hate crime law in the U.S., 1985-1998203Pt. IVSocial movements, dilemmas, and state resolutions23312Negotiated meanings and state transformation : the trust issue in the progressive era23713The new politics of immigration : "balanced-budget conservatism" and the symbolism of Proposition 18726314Acting locally : environmental injustice and the emergence of grassroots environmental organizations289Pt. VProblems of globalization and human rights30515Citizenship and inequality : historical and global perspectives30916Transnational mobilization and civil rights in Northern Ireland33317Exploring the organizational dilemmas of coercive state conduct : Israel's repression of the Palestinian uprising36518The space between laws revisited : corporate crime in a transnational context387Pt. VIEpilogue : a model for further investigation40319The state, the legal order, and social problems405
