Product Description: In the early 18th Century, Daniel Defoe found it natural to write a novel whose heroine was a sexually adventurous, socially marginal property offender. Only half a century later, this would have been next to unthinkable. Lacey explores the disappearance of Moll, and her supercession in the annals of literary female offenders by heroines like Tess, serving as a metaphor for fundamental changes in ideas of selfhood, gender and social order in 18th and 19th Century England...read more

Product Description: Over the last two decades, and in the wake of increases in recorded crime and other social changes, British criminal justice policy has become increasingly politicised as an index of governments' competence. New and worrying developments, such as the inexorable rise of the US prison population and the rising force of penal severity, seem unstoppable in the face of popular anxiety about crime...read more

Product Description: H.L.A. Hart was the pre-eminent legal philosopher of the twentieth century. As a scholar he single-handedly reinvented the philosophy of law and revolutionized our understanding of law as a social institution. Hart's approach to legal philosophy was at once disarmingly simple and breathtakingly ambitious, combining the insights of the Utilitarian tradition and the new linguistic philosophy of J...read more

Product Description: H.L.A. Hart was the pre-eminent legal philosopher of the twentieth century. As a scholar he single-handedly reinvented the philosophy of law and revolutionized our understanding of law as a social institution. Hart's approach to legal philosophy was at once disarmingly simple and breathtakingly ambitious, combining the insights of the Utilitarian tradition and the new linguistic philosophy of J...read more

Product Description: To date, regulatory scholarship has mainly been applied to specific legislative programs and/or agencies for the social and economic regulation of business. In this volume, a cast of internationally renowned legal scholars each apply a 'regulatory perspective' to their own area of law...read more

Product Description: Reconstructing Criminal Law provides a radical and stimulating alternative to the standard black letter criminal law text. The authors analyse central aspects of criminal law in the context of the assumptions surrounding it, and employ a number of critical approaches, including a feminist perspective to give insights into the current state of the law...read more

Product Description: Reconstructing Criminal Law provides a radical and stimulating alternative to the standard black letter criminal law text. The authors analyse central aspects of criminal law in the context of the assumptions surrounding it, and employ a number of critical approaches, including a feminist perspective to give insights into the current state of the law...read more

Product Description: The essays in this book present a feminist critique of law based on an analysis of the ways in which the very structure of modern law is gendered. Ranging across such field as criminal law and anti-discrimination law, Lacey examines the conceptual framework of modern legal practices, the concepts of equality, and the relationship between the state, the individual and the community...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Criminal justice is often described as a "system" or integrated set of processes forming part of one overarching, coherent social practice. For others, criminal justice is best seen as a diverse array of agencies and practices, all operating with their own discreet values and goals...read more

Product Description: Criminal justice is often described as a system: as an integrated set of processes all forming part of one coherent social practice. For others, criminal justice is best seen as a diverse array of agencies and practices, all operating with their own discrete values and goals...read more

Product Description: Nicola Lacey presents a new approach to the question of the moral justification of punishment by the State. She focuses on the theory of punishments in context of other political questions, such as the nature of political obligation and the function and scope of criminal law...read more

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Product Description: This student text was previously published by Weidenfeld and Nicolson. Using a number of critical approaches, including a feminist perspective, the authors analyze central aspects of criminal law in the context of the assumptions surrounding it...read more