Making Law: The State, the Law and Structural Contradictions (A Midland Book) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0253313384 ISBN 13: 9780253313386

Publisher: Indiana University Press, 1993

Synopsis

This book constructs a general theory of lawmaking that focuses on the question of why laws are enacted. Legal scholars, sociologists, political scientists, and anthropologists join in an attempt to develop and refine a structural theory of law. The theory proposed disavows the claims of the ruling class and consensus and pluralist theories, and suggests instead that an adequate theory of lawmaking must begin with an understanding of the structural constraints that exist in the political, economic, and social relations of the time. The contributors are Kitty Calavita, Thomas C. Castellano, William J. Chambliss, Ryken Grattet, Mark S. Hamm. James H. McDonald, Edmund F. McGarrell, Raymond J. Michalowski, Henry N. Pontell, Frederic I. Solop, Ephraim Tabory, J. Allen Whitt, Nancy A. Wonders, and Marjorie S. Zatz.

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About the Author

WILLIAM J. CHAMBLISS is Professor of Sociology at George Washington University and author of On the Take: From Petty Crooks to Presidents; Law, Order and Power (with Robert Seidman); Organizing Crime (with Alan Block); Exploring Criminology; and more than a dozen other books in the sociology of law, sociological theory, and criminology. MARJORIE S. ZATZ is Associate Professor of Justice Studies at Arizona State University and author of Robes and Sandals: Producing Legality in Revolutionary Cuba.

Edition details

• Publisher: Indiana University Press
• Publication date: 1993
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0253313384
• ISBN 13: 9780253313386
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 464
• Editor: Zatz Marjorie S., Chambliss William J.