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Custody Disputes From a Socio-Legal Perspective
This chapter examines high-conflict custody disputes in court and discusses whether Swedish legislation is suited to providing for children’s rights...
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Access to Justice for Sexual Violence Against Women: A Socio-Legal Analysis of Case Reporting in Kenya
A study conducted by Kenya’s National Crime Research Centre (NCRC) in 2014 revealed that only 15.2% of female respondents who had ever been sexually...
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A socio-legal analysis of the Belgian protective legislation towards victims of aggravated forms of migrant smuggling
As many scholars have shown, and other than what is suggested by their legal definition, migrant smuggling and human trafficking are not always...
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Limitations of the international approach to anti-corruption: a systematic review of South Africa’s compelling case of failing anti-corruption
In the Global South, anti-corruption initiatives continue to fail despite varying commitments to the international anti-corruption agenda....
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Researching the Roma in Criminology and Legal Studies: Experiences from Urban and Rural Participant Observation, Interviews, and Surveys
The Roma are the largest European minority and among the groups that have suffered the most dreadful persecution and trauma in the past that persists...
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Young People, Antisocial Behavior and Unemployment: Toward a Trans-Disciplinary Analysis of Criminalization
This article considers the diverse use of the concept of criminalization in criminological and socio-legal analyses, the meanings attached to it, and...
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Between Denial and Memory: A Socio-Legal Reading of Securitization Narratives in Transitional Colombia
The primary argument of this chapter is that criminal justice during a prolonged conflict is by nature authoritarian, and ignores crimes of the...
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Designing Research for Studying How Subnational Actors Use International Human Rights Treaties
This book examines how subnational actors use international human rights treaties and how subnational political authorities, including subnational...
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Offline Case Studies
A number of online case studies have been presented so far in this book. The case studies presented convenience themesconvenience themes for external...
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Courtroom Ethnography Exploring Contemporary Approaches, Fieldwork and Challenges
This book provides a comprehensive and interdisciplinary examination of courtroom ethnography. This collection gathers international researchers from...
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Key Concepts in Critical Whiteness Studies
Rooted in the fifteenth century and the beginning of Western colonialism, Whiteness is a pervasive cultural, social, political, and economic system...
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State-corporate legal symbiosis and social harm: the case of the steel factory ‘Ilva’ in Taranto, Italy
For more than a decade, epidemiological surveys have shown that Taranto, Italy, has a critical health situation. In particular, two epidemiological...
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Case Studies
As The People’s Republic of China has become more accessible to Western scholars, evidence has mounted that the country suffers from a wide range of...
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Measuring judiciarization of people with mental illnesses
The judiciarization of the psychiatric subject is a two-sided process. It could anti-discriminate people with mental illnesses but, at the same time,...
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Exclusion and Ignorance: International Legal Recognition and Criminalisation Responses to Transgender Communities in the Context of Political Economy
In this chapter, definitions and enforcement of criminal laws which discriminate against transgender identities across the world will be discussed....
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The Rate of Oppression (ROp): The Apartheid Studies Approach to the Study of Harm
We know that the world is saturated with harm, yet in fact the world does not collapse on its foundations, nor does daily business necessarily grind...
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Understanding Gender and Diversity in Europe Experiences of Migrant Single Mothers in Denmark
This book is a socio-legal interdisciplinary study on gender and diversity in multicultural societies of Europe. It uses secondary data to discuss...
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Introduction: The Rationale and Structure
This book is an interdisciplinary socio-legal study of diversity challenges in European multicultural societies. To analyse diversity and its...
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Organised food crime: an analysis of the involvements of organised crime groups in the food sector in England and Italy
The food sector is subject to illegal practices of various types such as adulteration or exploitation of labour. In the media and public discourse,...
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Teaching Courtroom Ethnography
Despite the abundant literature on ethnographies around courts, we know much less about the teaching of courthouse ethnography. The present chapter...