Social &Legal Studies, Ahead of Print. In Taiwo, one of the most recent landmark cases on racial justice, the Supreme Court rejected race discrimination claims of two domestic migrant workers, ruling that discrimination on the basis of ‘immigration…
Social &Legal Studies, Ahead of Print. The study of law as a social process should combine an analysis of structures from a political economy perspective with a sociological focus on the practices of lawyering in mediating social relations and conf…
Social &Legal Studies, Ahead of Print. Using Fineman’s vulnerability theory, this paper argues that the traditional adversarial approach to examining witnesses in criminal trials – premised on the principle of orality – reduces the resilience of th…
Social &Legal Studies, Ahead of Print. This article investigates how police officers and prosecutors make sense of and speak about their work with hate crimes. Our analysis rests upon Robert Reiner’s widely acknowledged claim that policing is inher…
Social &Legal Studies, Ahead of Print.
Social &Legal Studies, Ahead of Print.
Social &Legal Studies, Ahead of Print.
Social &Legal Studies, Ahead of Print. Significant strides have been made in the law’s recognition of harms arising from domestic abuse. In England and Wales, the Serious Crimes Act 2015, and in Scotland, the Domestic Abuse (Scotland) Act 2018, hav…
Social &Legal Studies, Ahead of Print. Significant strides have been made in the law’s recognition of harms arising from domestic abuse. In England and Wales, the Serious Crimes Act 2015, and in Scotland, the Domestic Abuse (Scotland) Act 2018, hav…
Social &Legal Studies, Ahead of Print. Individuals formerly involved in armed groups are positioned in the victim–perpetrator binary by legal systems and societies. Media participates in this process and influences the relationship between law and …