Everand Logo

Welcome to Everand!

  • Discover millions of ebooks, audiobooks, and so much more with a free trial

    Only $11.99/month after trial. Cancel anytime.

    Unavailable
    Invitation to Law and Society, Second Edition: An Introduction to the Study of Real Law
    Unavailable
    Invitation to Law and Society, Second Edition: An Introduction to the Study of Real Law
    Unavailable
    Invitation to Law and Society, Second Edition: An Introduction to the Study of Real Law
    Ebook353 pages5 hours

    Invitation to Law and Society, Second Edition: An Introduction to the Study of Real Law

    By Kitty Calavita

    4/5

    ()

    Currently unavailable

    Currently unavailable

    About this ebook

    Law and society is a rapidly growing field that turns the conventional view of law as mythical abstraction on its head. Kitty Calavita brilliantly brings to life the ways in which law is found not only in statutes and courtrooms but in our institutions and interactions, while inviting readers into conversations that introduce the field’s dominant themes and most lively disagreements. Deftly interweaving scholarship with familiar examples, Calavita shows how scholars in the discipline are collectively engaged in a subversive exposé of law’s public mythology. While surveying prominent issues and distinctive approaches to both law as it is written and actual legal practices, as well as the law’s potential as a tool for social change, this volume provides a view of law that is more real but just as compelling as its mythic counterpart.

    With this second edition of Invitation to Law and Society, Calavita brings up to date what is arguably the leading introduction to this exciting, evolving field of inquiry and adds a new chapter on the growing law and cultural studies movement.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherUniversity of Chicago Press
    Release dateApr 11, 2016
    ISBN9780226296616
    Unavailable
    Invitation to Law and Society, Second Edition: An Introduction to the Study of Real Law
    Author

    Kitty Calavita

    Kitty Calavita is Professor Emerita of Criminology, Law and Society and of Sociology at UC Irvine. Her books include Invitation to Law and Society: An Introduction to the Study of Real Law; Immigrants at the Margins: Law, Race, and Exclusion in Southern Europe; Big Money Crime: Fraud and Politics in the Savings and Loan Crisis; and Inside the State: The Bracero Program, Immigration, and the INS. Valerie Jenness is Professor of Criminology, Law and Society and of Sociology at UC Irvine, where she is also Dean of the School of Social Ecology. Her books include Making Hate a Crime: From Social Movement to Law Enforcement Practice; Hate Crimes: New Social Movements and the Politics of Violence; Making It Work: The Prostitutes' Rights Movement in Perspective; and Routing the Opposition: Social Movements, Public Policy, and Democracy.

    Read more from Kitty Calavita

    Related to Invitation to Law and Society, Second Edition

    Related ebooks

    Social Science For You

    View More
    View More

    Related podcast episodes

    Related articles

    • Article

      Reimagining Legal Education

      Jun 27, 2019

      Reimagining Legal Education
      3 min read

    • Article

      The New Puritans

      Aug 31, 2021

      The New Puritans
      28 min read

    • Article

      How to Fix Our Prisons? Let The Public Inside.

      Dec 17, 2019

      We need a broad national effort to recruit and place volunteers to educate and counsel incarcerated people.

      4 min read

    • Article

      When Forgiveness Is The Headline – A Reporter In Search Of A Different Angle

      Feb 26, 2019

      Being the New York staff writer for any news organization could be an overwhelming job. With a population and an economy larger than many of the nations the Monitor covers, New York City is at the intersection of some of the biggest stories on the pl

      7 min read

    • Article

      Elegy

      Sep 9, 2021

      Elegy
      11 min read

    • Article

      Year of Fear

      Jan 20, 2024

      Year of Fear
      4 min read

    • Article

      The Conversation

      Feb 9, 2018

      The Conversation
      8 min read

    • Article

      The Case For Cancel Culture: A Millennial Journalist’s Take

      Apr 6, 2023

      In 2019, Ernest Owens published a New York Times opinion piece, “Obama’s Very Boomer View of ‘Cancel Culture.’” The journalist was responding to remarks that the former president had made. Barack Obama had implored activists not to be overly judgment

      3 min read

    • Article

      On Living Stories: Kristen Millares Young in Conversation with Kirsten Sundberg Lunstrum

      Jul 18, 2019

      The two authors talk about the intersections of community and the canon: “There must be space in literature for the multiplicity of human experiences.” The post On Living Stories: Kristen Millares Young in Conversation with Kirsten Sundberg Lunstrum

      12 min read

    • Article

      Robert C. Koehler: Spare The Handcuffs, Spoil The Child

      Jul 6, 2023

      A tiny piece of news out of Florida the other day poked me, you might say, in the rear end. The nation’s prison population — we’re number one! — expanded slightly, as did the concept of crime itself. A couple in Daytona Beach, Florida — two police of

      4 min read

    • Article

      Nick Laird and Zadie Smith

      Nov 2, 2020

      My appreciation for the writing of Zadie Smith began January 30, 2007 at Foyles Bookshop on Charing Cross Road. I spotted the most beautiful book cover I’d ever seen, for a book called On Beauty. I bought the book without knowing anything about Smith

      14 min read

    Reviews for Invitation to Law and Society, Second Edition

    4/5

    1 rating0 reviews

    What did you think?

    Tap to rate

    Review must be at least 10 words