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This informative, highly readable and comprehensive book offers a balanced, current and comprehensive overview of the legal system and administrative, criminal and civil law in cross-cultural context. The book considers the most recent theories and research findings, and emphasizes developing trends. It focuses on the evolution of modern legal systems, current intellectual movements in law, interplay between law and social change and the main concerns and issues in the profession and practice of law. This is the only book that considers multicultural and cross-cultural issues in a contemporary context with an interdisciplinary emphasis. Extensive new material includes detailed and up-to-date discussions on the transformation of legal systems in Central and Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union and some of the unintended consequences which promoted organized crime; critical race theory; community policing in Japan; trends in sentencing guidelines; and a variety of new developments in alternative dispute resolution and in the death penalty controversy. For anyone with an interest in law and society.

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This balanced and comprehensive overview of the entire legal system -- administrative, civil, and criminal law -- considers the most recent research and theories and discusses important recent trends and real-life developments. It focuses on the emergence of modern legal systems, current intellectual movements in law, reciprocity between law and social change, and the profession and practice of law.
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Steven Vago earned two Ph.D.s: one in Sociology and one in Anthropology from Washington University in St. Louis. During graduate school he was an integral part of the creation of an alcohol treatment program at Malcolm Bliss Hospital in St. Louis. He became part of the Department of Sociology at St. Louis University after fi nishing his graduate studies and was a full professor there by the age of 37. Thereafter, he chaired the Department of Sociology several times, teaching at St. Louis University for over 30 years. During the 1970s, he was asked by the United Nations to work for its member agency UNESCO and worked in Paris for several years in their Office of Population and Demography. At the end of his teaching career in 2001, he retired to Bellingham, Washington with his wife. He passed away in 2010, at the age of 73. Adie Nelson received her Ph.D. from the London School of Economics and Political Science and is an Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology and Legal Studies at the University of Waterloo. Her areas of specialization are victimology, criminology, and the sociology of deviance. Veronica Nelson received her J.D. from the University of Ottawa and is currently pursuing a LL.M. at Queen's University. Her areas of special interest are tort law, environmental law, and constitutional law. Steven E. Barkan is Professor of Sociology at the University of Maine, where he has taught since 1979. His teaching and research interests include criminology, sociology of law, and social movements.

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  • PublisherPrentice Hall
  • Publication date2002
  • ISBN 10 0130979589
  • ISBN 13 9780130979582
  • BindingHardcover
  • Number of pages452
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