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  • Women-in-Law

    Explorations in Law, Family, and Sexuality

    Edited by Julia Brophy, Carol Smart ...
    Series series Routledge Revivals
    First published in 1985, Women-in-Law is a collection of essays examining the complex interactions of law, sexuality, and the family. It explores the ways in which legal ideology and practice affect women and looks at issues such as child custody, domestic violence and prostitution in the light of new research. The contributors review the history of feminist involvement with the law and analyse ... Read more

    $41.99 USD

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  • Damned Whores and God's Police

    by Anne Summers ...
    Sexual harassment, domestic violence and date rape had not been named, although they certainly existed, when Damned Whores and God's Police was first published in 1975. That was before the Sex Discrimination Act of 1984 and before large numbers of women became visible in employment, in politics and elsewhere across society. It's hard to imagine an Australia where these abuses were not yet fully ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Beyond White Guilt

    The real challenge for black-white relations in Australia

    'This book lays out the way modern Australia can right the wrongs that have occurred in the intervening years, and decades, and centuries that have passed since that first dramatic encounter.' - From the foreword by The Hon. Michael Kirby AC CMG'An excellent diagnosis of Australia's mind-set.' - Jeff McMullen journalist, author, film makerDeep in our hearts, Australians know that our nation was ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Public Criminology?

    Series series Key Ideas in Criminology
    What is the role and value of criminology in a democratic society? How do, and how should, its practitioners engage with politics and public policy? How can criminology find a voice in an agitated, insecure and intensely mediated world in which crime and punishment loom large in government agendas and public discourse? What collective good do we want criminological enquiry to promote?In addressing ... Read more

    $81.99 USD

  • Restorative Justice

    Ideas, Values, Debates

    Restorative justice is one of the most talked about developments in the field of crime and justice. Its advocates and practitioners argue that state punishment, society's customary response to crime, neither meets the needs of crime victims nor prevents reoffending. In its place, they suggest, should be restorative justice, in which families and communities of offenders encourage them to take ... Read more

    $77.99 USD

  • Punishment and Welfare: A History of Penal Strategies

    by David Garland ...
    First published in 1985, this classic of law and society scholarship continues to shape the research agenda of today's sociology of punishment. It is now republished with a new Preface by the author.'Punishment and Welfare' explores the relation of punishment to politics, the historical formation and development of criminology, and the way in which penal reform grew out of the complex set of ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Politics of the Common Law

    Perspectives, Rights, Processes, Institutions

    The Politics of the Common Law offers a critical introduction to the legal system of England and Wales. Unlike other conventional accounts, this revised and updated second edition presents a coherent argument, organised around the central claim that contemporary postcolonial common law must be understood as an articulation of human rights and open justice.The book examines the impact of the ... Read more

    $72.99 USD

  • Judging Social Rights

    by Jeff King ...
    Series Book 3 - Cambridge Studies in Constitutional Law
    Countries that now contemplate constitutional reform often grapple with the question of whether to constitutionalise social rights. This book presents an argument for why, under the right conditions, doing so can be a good way to advance social justice. In making such a case, the author considers the nature of the social minimum, the role of courts among other institutions, the empirical record of ... Read more

    $51.69 USD

  • Family Law

    Edited by Jonathan Herring ...
    This book provides a stimulating, carefully planned introduction to the key issues and debates within family law from some of the leading authorities within their field. It is designed both as a self standing book focusing on the key issues in the subject, and as a supplement to more detailed textbooks on the subject. It is essential reading for anybody studying or practising in the field of ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • Understanding Social Work

    by John Pierson ...
    This essential book covers the history and evolution behind social work, helping students new to social work understand how the field has been shaped. ... Read more

    $39.99 USD

  • Criminal Justice

    An Introduction to Philosophies, Theories and Practice

    This new text encourages students to develop a deeper understanding of the context and the current workings of the criminal justice system. The first part offers a clear and comprehensive review of the major philosophical aims and sociological theories of punishment, the history of justice and punishment and the developing perspective of victimology. In the second part, the focus is on the main ... Read more

    $59.99 USD

  • Misconceptions

    Unmarried Motherhood and the Ontario Children of Unmarried Parents Act, 1921-1969

    by Lori Chambers ...
    In 1921, despite the passing of legislation intended to ease the consequences of illegitimacy for children (Children of Unmarried Parents Act), reformers in Ontario made no effort to improve the status of unwed mothers. Furthermore, the reforms that were passed served as models for legislation in other provinces and even in some American states, institutionalizing, in essence, the prejudices ... Read more

    $39.99 USD