A primary concern within the study of law has been to understand the “law-society” relation. Underlying this concern is the belief that law has a distinctly social basis; it both shapes — and is shaped by — the society in which it operates. This book explores the law-society relation by locating law within the nexus of race/class/gender/sexuality relations in society. In addition to updating the material in the theoretical and substantive chapters, this third edition of Locating Law includes three new contributions: sentencing law and Aboriginal peoples; corporations and the law; and obscenity and indecency legislation. The analyses offered in the book are sure to generate discussion and debate and, in the process, enhance our understanding of law’s location.
Price: $45.00
Pages: 354
Publisher: Fernwood Publishing
Imprint: Fernwood Publishing
Publication Date:
28 February 2014
Trim Size: 9.00 X 6.00 in
ISBN: 9781552666579
Format: Paperback
“This book is the best available for teaching the role of law in society and making sense of how it operates within the (inter)connections of race, class and gender dynamics often perpetuating oppression. … Locating Law is essential for undergraduate students in justice, sociology and criminology.”
— Margot Hurlbert, University of Regina
Elizabeth Comack is a professor of Sociology at the University of Manitoba. Over the past three decades she has written and conducted research on a variety of social justice topics. Her most recent work is Coming Back to Jail: Women, Trauma, and Criminalization. Elizabeth’s current research projects stem from her involvement in the Manitoba Research Alliance’s SSHRC Partnership project, “Partnering for Change: Community-Based Solutions for Aboriginal and Inner-City Poverty.” Elizabeth leads the Justice, Safety, and Security stream of the project.
: Introduction
: Section One: Theoretical Approaches In the Sociology of Law Theoretical Excursions (Elizabeth Comack)
: Section Two: Racism and the Law Introduction
: Standing Against Canadian Law: Naming Omissions of Race, Culture, and Gender (Patricia Monture)
: “Managing” Canadian Immigration: Racism, Racialization, and the Law (Lisa Marie Jakubowski & Elizabeth Comack)
: Colonialism, Systemic Discrimination, and the Crisis of Indigenous Over-incarceration: Challenges of Reforming the Sentencing Process (David Milward & Debra Parkes)
: Section Three: Class Interests and the Law Introduction
: Locating Labour Law: Conflicting Perspectives and the Case of Occupational Health and Safety Regulation (Eric Tucker)
: The Breakdown of Canada’s Corporate Crime Laws: Rhetoric versus Reality (Steven Bittle & Laureen Snider)
: The Construction of “Welfare Fraud” and the Wielding of the State’s Iron Fist (Janet E. Mosher)
: Section Four: Gender, Sexuality, and the Law Introduction
: Feminism, Law, and “The Family”: Assessing the Reform Legacy (Dorothy E. Chunn)
: “Sex Was in the Air”: Pernicious Myths and Other Problems with Sexual Violence Prosecutions (Karen Busby)
: Governing Obscenity and Indecency in Canada (Richard Jochelson & Kirsten Kramar)
