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“steven barkan”

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  • Law and Society

    An Introduction

    by Steven Barkan ...
    The new third edition of Law and Society provides a balanced, multidisciplinary, and comprehensive overview of law as an essential social institution that both shapes and is shaped by society. Between this book’s covers, readers will find the theoretical and conceptual contributions of anthropologists, historians, law professors, political scientists, philosophers, psychologists, and sociologists. ... Read more

    $123.99 CAD

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  • Policing the Black Man

    Arrest, Prosecution, and Imprisonment

    Edited by Angela J. Davis ...
    A comprehensive, readable analysis of the key issues of the Black Lives Matter movement, this thought-provoking and compelling anthology features essays by some of the nation’s most influential and respected criminal justice experts and legal scholars.“Somewhere among the anger, mourning and malice that Policing the Black Man documents lies the pursuit of justice. This powerful book demands our ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD

  • On Critical Race Theory

    Why It Matters & Why You Should Care

    by Victor Ray ...
    **What exactly is critical race theory? This concise and accessible exploration demystifies a crucial framework for understanding and fighting racial injustice in the United States.“A clear-eyed, expert field guide.”—Dr. Tressie McMillan Cottom, author of Thick**From renowned scholar Dr. Victor Ray, On Critical Race Theory explains the centrality of race in American history and politics, and how ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Law and Society

    Canadian Edition

    by Steven Vago, Adie Nelson, Veronica Nelson, Steven E. Barkan ...
    Law and Society provides a balanced and comprehensive analysis of the interplay between law and society using both Canadian and international examples. This clear and readable text is fi lled with interesting information, ideas and insights. All materials and supporting statistics have been carefully updated. This edition includes an expanded discussion of the law and First Nations people, recent ... Read more

    $159.99 CAD

  • Governing Through Crime

    How the War on Crime Transformed American Democracy and Created a Culture of Fear

    by Jonathan Simon ...
    Series series Studies in Crime and Public Policy
    Across America today gated communities sprawl out from urban centers, employers enforce mandatory drug testing, and schools screen students with metal detectors. Social problems ranging from welfare dependency to educational inequality have been reconceptualized as crimes, with an attendant focus on assigning fault and imposing consequences. Even before the recent terrorist attacks, non-citizen ... Read more

    $32.79 CAD

  • Butterfly Politics

    by Catharine A. MacKinnon ...
    The minuscule motion of a butterfly’s wings can trigger a tornado half a world away, according to chaos theory. Under the right conditions, small simple actions can produce large complex effects. In this timely and provocative book, Catharine A. MacKinnon argues that the right seemingly minor interventions in the legal realm can have a butterfly effect that generates major social and cultural ... Read more

    $21.99 CAD

  • The Courts, the Charter, and the Schools

    The Impact of the Charter of Rights and Freedoms on Educational Policy and Practice, 1982-2007

    Edited by Michael Manley-Casimir, Kristen Manley-Casimir ...
    The adoption of the Canadian Constitution Act in 1982, with its embedded Charter of Rights and Freedoms, ushered in an era of unprecedented judicial influence on Canada's public policy. The Courts, the Charter, and the Schools examines how the Constitution Act has affected educational policy during the first twenty-five years of the Charter by analyzing landmark rulings handed down from appellate ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD

  • The Shadow University

    The Betrayal of Liberty on America's Campuses

    by Alan Charles Kors, Harvey Silverglate ...
    Universities once believed themselves to be sacred enclaves, where students and professors could debate the issues of the day and arrive at a better understanding of the human condition. Today, sadly, this ideal of the university is being quietly betrayed from within. Universities still set themselves apart from American society, but now they do so by enforcing their own politically correct ... Read more

    $24.99 CAD

  • Why Marriage

    The History Shaping Today's Debate Over Gay Equality

    by George Chauncey ...
    Angry debate over gay marriage has divided the nation as no other issue since the Vietnam War. Why has marriage suddenly emerged as the most explosive issue in the gay struggle for equality? At times it seems to have come out of nowhere-but in fact it has a history. George Chauncey offers an electrifying analysis of the history of the shifting attitudes of heterosexual Americans toward gay people, ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD

  • Judges and Their Audiences

    A Perspective on Judicial Behavior

    by Lawrence Baum ...
    What motivates judges as decision makers? Political scientist Lawrence Baum offers a new perspective on this crucial question, a perspective based on judges' interest in the approval of audiences important to them.The conventional scholarly wisdom holds that judges on higher courts seek only to make good law, good policy, or both. In these theories, judges are influenced by other people only in ... Read more

    $45.09 CAD

  • From the Closet to the Courtroom

    Five LGBT Rights Lawsuits That Have Changed Our Nation

    by Carlos A. Ball, Michael Bronski ...
    Series Book 4 - Queer Ideas/Queer Action
    The advancement of LGBT rights has occurred through struggles large and small-on the streets, around kitchen tables, and on the Web. Lawsuits have also played a vital role in propelling the movement forward, and behind every case is a human story: a landlord in New York seeks to evict a gay man from his home after his partner of ten years dies of AIDS; school officials in Wisconsin look the other ... Read more

    $22.39 CAD

  • For Discrimination

    Race, Affirmative Action, and the Law

    by Randall Kennedy ...
    **The definitive reckoning with Affirmative Action, one of America’s most explosively contentious and divisive issues—from “one of our most important and perceptive writers on race and the law.”—The Washington Post“A clear-eyed take on America’s battle over affirmative action and diversity.... [Kennedy] goes straight at the issue with fearlessness and a certain cheekiness.” —Los Angeles Times** ... Read more

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    Also available as: Audiobook