Socio-Legal Studies - Public Policy

In 1999, Sweden criminalised the purchase of sex whilst simultaneously decriminalizing its sale. In so doing, it set itself apart from other European states, promoting itself as the pioneer of a radical approach to prostitution. In the context of its continuing international influence, this book dra..

During the past decade, a remarkable transference of jurisdiction to Indigenous children’s organisation has taken place in many parts of Australia, Canada, the USA and New Zealand. Decolonizing Indigenous Child Welfare considers this development and, evaluating law reform with respect to Indigenous ..

The drug control regime established by the international community has not succeeded in curbing either the demand for, or the offer of, narcotics. But, despite a series of developments in the Americas – including the legalisation of cannabis in Uruguay, as well as in Colorado – there is still little..

Foucault, Crime and Power argues that a Foucauldian approach to crime holds greater analytical potential for criminological research than have so far been recognized. The book considers both how crime has been conceived as problem and the responses that has been suggested to deal with it, using deve..

Foucault, Crime and Power argues that a Foucauldian approach to crime holds greater analytical potential for criminological research than have so far been recognized. The book considers both how crime has been conceived as problem and the responses that has been suggested to deal with it, using deve..

Knowledge, Technology and Law examines the interface between studies of law, science and society, from the perspectives of socio-legal studies and science and technology studies (STS). The relationships between law, science and society are central to a diverse range of practical, ethical and theoret..

Disasters raise serious challenges for contemporary legal orders: they demand significant management, but usually amidst massive disruption to the normal functioning of state authority and society. This book analyses the contribution of law to resilience building by looking at law’s role in the diff..

Law, Environmental Illness and Medical Uncertainty addresses what happens in the institutions of law and medicine during periods of scientific uncertainty. The book paints an ethnographic portrait of the medico-legal system and its struggle to deal with a globally contested, environmental illness. L..

Law, Environmental Illness and Medical Uncertainty addresses what happens in the institutions of law and medicine during periods of scientific uncertainty. The book paints an ethnographic portrait of the medico-legal system and its struggle to deal with a globally contested, environmental illness. L..

This collection of critical essays considers the criminalisation of squatting from a range of different theoretical, policy and practice perspectives. While the practice of squatting has long been criminalized in some jurisdictions, the last few years have witnessed the emergence of a newly constitu..

Organised Sexual Abuse offers a comprehensive, interdisciplinary investigation of this phenomenon...

Offering a provocative and innovative theorisation of governance as relational politics, the central argument of Power, Politics and the Emotions is that there are complex sets of emotional dynamics which complicate the already contested terrain of social policy making...