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Law and Memory
This chapter establishes how collective commemorative events can come to be thought of as a resource of law, or as quasi-legal institutions. It...
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Trust in the law but beware! The possible corruptogenic effects of the law on public procurement in Malawi
The persistence of corruption in Malawi is well documented as are its heinous effects. Malawi’s response to combating corruption has involved the...
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Identity fraud victimization: a critical review of the literature of the past two decades
This study aims to provide an understanding of the nature, extent, and quality of the research evidence on identity fraud victimization in the US....
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A systematic review and meta-analysis of procedural justice and legitimacy in policing: the effect of social identity and social contexts
ObjectivesTo systematically review the effect of social identity and social contexts on the association between procedural justice and legitimacy in...
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Examining the Association Between Citizenship and Ethnicity on Identity Theft Risk: Findings from the National Crime Victimization Survey
Studies examining citizenship, ethnicity, and victimization risk have offered mixed findings. Despite this, works have largely focused upon...
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The ‘Law-Abiding Offender’
This Chapter considers how, despite evidence of mass law-breaking on the roads, this is a context where drivers strive to maintain a law-abiding...
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Law Enforcement Perspective
This chapter focuses on how the law enforcement agencies perceive online child sexual abuse and child pornography as a crime. It also discusses their...
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Occupation, Organisation, Opportunity, and Oversight: Law Firm Client Accounts and (Anti-)Money Laundering
The misuse of law firm pooled client accounts has been identified as one of the primary areas of money laundering and terrorist financing risk for...
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Interpretive Harms and Contested Agency: Transphobic Ideology, Correctional Officers, and the Law
The Transgender Respect, Agency, and Dignity Act (TRADA) (2020), marks a drastic procedural turn in the California Department of Corrections and...
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Yanyuwa Law
This chapter provides the contextual background for a case study of Yanyuwa Law and how this Law relates to the ownership of Country. Indigenous Law...
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Analysis of Italian Hate Crime Law
This chapter provides an exemplar of how the ILT can be applied to the assessment of a specific legislation. The multi-level analysis of Italian hate...
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Conceptualising Indigenous Law
Law is the most immersive of concepts in an Indigenous cultural context. It is a nuanced schema for human existence, and goes beyond a system of...
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More than “male” and “female”: the role of gender identity in white-collar offending intentions
The gender gap in white-collar crime perpetration is well-established, yet reasons for women’s underrepresentation among this offending group remain...
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Myth, Identity, Order
This chapter develops the central organising concepts of the book’s analysis. Myths are understood as the stories that are told to make sense of...
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What influences punitive responses? Examining the interaction between shared identity and crime severity
ObjectivesThe current paper investigates the black sheep effect by testing how crime severity and shared identity with an offender affect retributive...
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Victim-offender overlap: the identity transformations experienced by trafficked Chinese workers esca** from pig-butchering scam syndicate
The pig-butchering scam, also known as Sha Zhu Pan (杀猪盘) in Chinese, is a distinctive form of online romance scam. It involves fraudulently enticing...
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Genetic Stigma in Law and Literature Orphanhood, Adoption, and the Right to Reunion
This book critically analyses the way in which traditional sociocultural and legal biases might be perpetuated against those with unknown – or...
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Testimonies of Yanyuwa Law and Kincentric Order
In this chapter we present a demonstration of Indigenous Law in practice at a local level, a detailed account of an oral testimony given by Yanyuwa...
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Law and Legal Validity
Modern law is positive law. It gains its validity through the respective authority’s decision. The issue of power is therefore key for the sociology...
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Law Enforcement and Indigenous and Black People: Canada and Australia
This chapter highlights the tense and mistrustfulMistrustful relationship between IndigenousIndigenous people and BlackBlack people people and law...