Bücher der Reihe Sociology of Law and Crime

Explores the interaction between the criminal justice system and the wider concerns of political and social institutions, including the welfare state, social work and forensic psychiatry.

Feminist analysis of the range of critical perspectives on punishment leads to argument that a fuller social understanding of punishment must be informed by feminist research on women's imprisonment.

How can universally valid legal principles possibly exist in a manifestly unequal world? This book looks at how a progressive law may be possible by presenting jurisprudence as a paradigm of legal ideology, unravelling the unjust social dynamic within which law operates and helps create.

Winner of British Sociological Association Philip Abrams Memorial Prize 1993. Examines the taboo of incest from historical and sociological perspectives. Raises important questions on the criminalization of incest.