Contributor
Macaulay, Stewart, 1931-
Edition Statement:lst ed.
Imprint:New York : W.W. Norton & Co., c1995.
Descriptionxv, 912 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Note:I. INTRODUCTION -- 2. THE LEGAL SYSTEM IN OPERATION: How do people learn about the legal system: Law, lawyers, and popular culture / Lawrence M. Friedman -- The questions of jury competency and the politics of civil justice reform: symbols, rhetoric, and agenda setting / Stephen Daniels -- Notes on the future of social research law / Marc Galanter -- The formal legal system in operation: Criminal procedures: "Handling" family violence: situational determinants of police arrest in domestic disturbances / Sarah F. Berk, Donileen R. Locke -- Police discretion not to invoke the criminal process: low-visibility decisions in the administration of justice / Joseph Goldstein -- The practice of law as a confidence game: organizational cooptation of a profession / Abraham S. Blumberg -- Civil law processes: Non-contractual relations in business: a preliminary study / Steward Macaulay -- Settled out of court: the social process of insurance claims adjustment / H. Laurence Ross -- Bargaining in the shadow of the law: the case of divorce / Robert Mnookin, Lewis Kornhauser -- Participation and flexibility in informal processes: cautions from the divorce context / Howard S. Erlanger, Elizabeth Chambliss, Marygold S. Melli -- LEGISLATIVE PROCESS: The calculus of consent / James Buchanan, Gordon Tullock -- Administrative process: Going by the book: the problem of regulatory unreasonableness / Eugene Bardach, Robert Kagan -- The legal system in operation: highlighting the imporance of discretion, bargaining, and "the law" -- Legal culture descriptions of whole legal systems -- 3. WHERE DOES LAW COME FROM? THE IMPACT OF SOCIETY ON LAW: Law as a part of a complex system of social control: when do we find a legal system? Social factors in the development of legal control: a case study of two Israeli settlements / Richard D. Schwartz -- A note on legal evolution: Max Weber on law in economy and society / Max Rheinstein -- Social change as an engine of legal change: Pluralism, control, by elites, or class domination: whose opinion counts? Social change and the law of industrial accidents / Lawrence M. Friedman, Jack Ladinsky -- The jungle, and the background of the first Food and Drug Act, 1906 / Upton Sinclair -- The cultral logic of a political crisis: common sense, hegemony and the great American liability insurance famine of 1986 / Robert M. Hayden -- Parental authority: the community and the law / Julius Cohen, Reginald A. Robson, Alan P. Bates -- Review of Cohen, Robson & Bates / Luke Cooperrider -- Legal culture and the welfare state / Lawrence M. Friedman -- American legal culture: the last 35 years / Lawrence m. Friedman -- How does public opinon, local culture, or power affect the legal system? Worker insurgency, radical organization, and New Deal labor legislation / Michael Goldfield -- Explaining New Deal labor policy / Theda Skocpol, Kenneth Feingold -- Case studies of the production of law: Expert reform: changing America's divorce law: Silent revolution / Herbert Jacob -- Pluralist bargaining and power: the retail petroleum dealers attempt to curb the power of the major oil companies: Long-term continuing relations: the American experience regulating dealerships and franchises / Steward Macaulay -- The judicial system functions in a social context: studies of litigation statistics: The routinization of debt collection: an essay on social change and conflict in courts / Robert Kagan -- Trials and tribulations: crises, litigation and legal change / John Stookey.
Note:4. THE IMPACT OF LAW ON SOCIETY: Why do people obey the law? The role of sanctions: Deterrence theory and research / Jack Gibbs -- Homicide and the death penalty: a cross-national test of a deterrence hypothesis / Dane Archer, Rosemary Gartner, Marc Beittel -- The deterrence curve / Lawrence M. Friedman -- Interrupted time series studies of deterrence of drinking and driving / H. Laurence Ross -- The role of peer groups, conscience, moral appeal, embarrassment, and shame: Conscience, significant others and rational choice: extending the deterrence model / Harold G. Grasmick, Robert J. Bursik, Jr. -- Moral appeal, sanction threat, and deviance: an experimental test / Charles R. Tittle, Alan R. Rowe -- The role of legitimacy and general respect for authority: Why people obey the law / Tom Tyler -- Obedience to authority: an experimental view / Stanley Milgram -- Images of law in everyday life: the lessons of school, entertainment, and spectator sports / Stewart Macaulay -- The social impact of law: What impact is law supposed to have on society? : Moral passage; the symblic process in public designations of deviance / Joseph R. Gusfield -- Social impact: the role of implementing organizations: Rape law reform and instrumental change in six urban jurisdictions / Julie Horney, Cassia Spohn -- Miranda in Pittsburgh: a statistical study / Richard H. Seeburger, rR. Stanton Wettick, Jr. -- Homicide: a year on the killing streets / David Simon -- Social impact: does the institution that makes the law influence the impact? : The hollow hope / Gerald Rosenberg -- Social impact: how can we differentiate impact from ratifications of the existing pattern? : State implementation of Supreme Court decisions: abortion rates since Roe v. Wade / Susan B. Hansen -- Social impact: unintended consequences: The divorce resolution / Lenore Weitzman -- Social impact: the importance of communication networks: Tarasoff, myth, and reality: an empirical study of private law in action / Daniel J. Givelber, William J. Bowers, Carolyn L. Blitch -- Media coverage of Supreme Court decision-making: problems and prospects / Elliot E. Slotnick -- A Concluding word -- 5. THE LEGAL SYSTEM AS A SOCIAL SYSTEM: STRUCTURE, RULES, AND ROLES: The structure of the legal system: Adversary vs. inqisitorial structures: Anglo-American contrasted with continental European approaches: The arrangement of legal institutions: The evolution of state supreme courts / Robert A. Kagan, Bliss Cartwright, Lawrence M. Friedman, Stanton Wheeler -- Systems for controlling behavior within legal institutions: Rules and their rivals: Legal rules and the process of social change / Lawrence M. Friedman -- Communication and control: The forest ranger: a study in administrative behavior / Herbert Kaufamn -- The roles of actors in the legal system: job descriptions, who gets the jobs, and rewards and punishments: Judges: The Bush imprint on the judiciary: carrying on a tradition / Sheldon Goldman -- Law and life in the United States / Carol Greenhouse -- Role perceptions and behavior in three U.S. courts of appeals / J. Woodford Howard, Jr. -- The role concept in judicial research / James L. Gibson -- Lawyers: Six score years and ten: demographic transitions in the American legal profession, 1850-1980 / Terence C. Halliday -- Cultural capital, gender, and the structural transformation of legal practice / John Hagan, Marjorie Zatz, Bruce Arnold, Fiona Kay -- Losing its allure: lawyer/legislators are a dying breed: it just doesn't pay / Andrew Blum -- What have lawyers done for American business? the case of Baker & Botts of Houston / Kenneth Lipartito -- Lawyers and consumer protection laws / Stewart Macaulay -- Law and strategy in the divorce lawyer's office / Austin Sarat, William L.F. Felstiner.
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