Lacey criticizes the fundamental liberal philosophical assumptions underlying much of the modern tradition of theorising about punishment and argues instead for its justifying ...

Topics range from the conceptual framework of modern legal practices to the legal construction of the relations between individual, state and community. These essays also look ...

The authors analyse central aspects of criminal law in the context of the assumptions surrounding it, and employ a number of critical approaches, including a feminist ...

This book draws on law, literature, philosophy and social history to explore fundamental changes in ideas of selfhood, gender and social order in 18th and 19th Century England ...

Criminal justice is often described as an integrated set of processes forming part of one coherent social practice, while others see it as a diverse array of agencies and ...

What makes someone responsible for a crime and therefore liable to punishment under the criminal law? Modern lawyers will quickly and easily point to the criminal law's ...