Research Catalog

Title

Reconstructing criminal law : critical perspectives on crime and the criminal process / Nicola Lacey, Celia Wells.

Author

Lacey, Nicola

Publication

London : Butterworths ; Charlottesville, Va. : Lexis Law Pub., 1998.

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Details

Additional Authors

Wells, Celia.

Description

xxvii, 659 p.; 23 cm.

Summary

The second edition of this alternative to the standard black letter criminal law text employs a number of critical approaches, including a feminist perspective.

Series Statement

Law in context

Uniform Title

Law in context

Subject

• Criminal law > Great Britain
• Law > Great Britain > History

Genre/Form

History

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 603-636) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Ch. 1. Approaching criminal law -- I. Images of criminal law -- II. Framing criminal law -- III. Criminal laws in their social and procedural context -- Ch. 2. Law, order and dangerousness -- I. Conceiving 'public order' -- II. The social construction of disorder and dangerousness -- III. Legal conceptions of disorder -- IV. ... and dangerousness -- Ch. 3. Property and propriety -- I. Defining and defending private property -- II. Constructing property in criminal law -- III. Property rights and criminal enforcement -- Ch. 4. A question of integrity? The legal construction of sexuality and bodily autonomy -- I. The social construction of sexuality and bodily autonomy -- II. Sexual violence -- III. Regulating sexuality -- IV. Regulating maternity -- V. Euthanasia -- Ch. 5. Making a killing: conceptions of violence -- I. The social construction of violence and personal harm -- II. The criminal regulation of public safety -- III. Homicide -- IV. Murder and manslaughter.

ISBN

0406046549

OCLC

• 39346740
• SCSB-10264654

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library