Studies in Law, Politics, and Society, Volume 45 (Studies in Law, Politics and Society)

Studies in law, politics, and society......Page 1
sdarticle_001.pdf......Page 2
sdarticle_002.pdf......Page 3
List of contributors......Page 4
Editorial board......Page 5
Reconceptualizing victimization and agency in the discourse of battered women who kill......Page 6
Introduction......Page 7
The Impetus for Doing the Research......Page 8
The Doctrine of Self-Defence and its Implications for Battered Women Who Kill Their Abusers......Page 9
The Battered Woman Syndrome......Page 11
Limitations of BWS......Page 12
Questions of agency and victimization in the discourse of battered women who kill......Page 15
Sentencing in Canada18......Page 21
Analysis......Page 22
Construction of the Cases as Unique......Page 24
Focus on the Mental State of the Women......Page 27
Victims of Circumstances......Page 35
Summary......Page 41
Notes......Page 43
Acknowledgments......Page 46
References......Page 47
Cases......Page 48
Contextual constraints on defendants’ apologies at sentencing......Page 49
Notes......Page 72
References......Page 74
Cases Cited......Page 76
Blood relations: Collective memory, cultural trauma, and the prosecution and execution of timothy McVeigh......Page 77
Introduction......Page 78
Collective memory, cultural trauma, and the law......Page 81
Voluntary blood relations......Page 87
Members’ Mental State upon Joining......Page 88
Group Functions......Page 89
Effects of Group Membership on Perceived ‘‘Justice Needs’’......Page 91
The Source of the Involuntary Victim-Offender Relationship......Page 94
McVeigh as Para-Social Enemy......Page 97
Perceptions of McVeigh’s Conduct at Trial......Page 102
Dissatisfaction with Limited Access to McVeigh through Trial Proceedings......Page 103
Understanding the Execution as Communicative Interaction......Page 104
The Marked Gaze......Page 106
The Social Consequences of the Gaze......Page 109
Witnesses’ Perception of a Communicative Gaze......Page 112
Dimensions of Silence......Page 114
Witnesses’ Own Silence......Page 116
Witness Perceptions of McVeigh’s Silence......Page 118
McVeigh’s Death as Imposing Silence......Page 123
Conclusion......Page 126
Notes......Page 128
References......Page 135
Appendix. Participant Characteristics......Page 139
Power, politics, and penality: Punitiveness as backlash in American democracies......Page 141
Introduction......Page 142
Explaining Hyper-Penality......Page 149
The Role of Crime......Page 150
The Cultural Underpinnings of Hyper-Penality......Page 151
Neoliberal Capitalism and Hyper-Penality......Page 154
Democratization, neoliberalism, and Hyper-Penality in the Americas......Page 158
Democracy and Penality in Brazil, Guatemala, and the United States......Page 159
Conclusion......Page 164
Notes......Page 166
References......Page 170
Introduction......Page 176
Governmentality studies......Page 177
Method......Page 180
Neo-liberalism’s arrival......Page 181
Pastoralism......Page 190
Conclusions......Page 194
Notes......Page 196
References......Page 197
Legal Cases......Page 200
Cause lawyers as legal innovators with and against the state: Symbiosis or opposition?......Page 201
Social movement cause lawyers and state bureaucrats......Page 205
Cause lawyers and the legal arena in state theory......Page 208
Cause Lawyers as Legal Innovators......Page 210
Law as the Shared Language......Page 212
Part III: Cause lawyer-state interactions in the disaggregated, embedded state......Page 214
The Cases......Page 216
Conclusions......Page 223
Notes......Page 224
References......Page 225
Israel Personal Interviews:......Page 229
Ignored no longer: Contributions of the law of agency to principal-agency theory and congressional leadership......Page 230
Historical Development of Agency Law......Page 233
Basic Principles of Agency Law......Page 235
Duties among the Agent and Principal......Page 236
Principals and Agents: From Economic Theory to Political Science......Page 238
Principal-Agent Theory and Congressional Leadership......Page 239
Contributions from agency law to principal-agency theory......Page 240
Difficulties and discontinuity brought by agency law......Page 246
Concluding thoughts......Page 247
Acknowledgments......Page 248
References......Page 249
Reforming labor law in the Czech republic: International sources of change......Page 250
Introduction......Page 251
Theoretical framework......Page 252
Bureaucratic Imposition: Czech Communism and Labor Law......Page 254
Lustration......Page 255
Compulsory Labor......Page 256
Codifying Work Time......Page 257
Social Benefits......Page 258
Gender Equality......Page 259
The Subordinate Role of Trade Unions......Page 260
EU requirements: Bureaucratic voluntarism and Czech labor law......Page 261
Impact of EU Requirements: Free Association and the Right to Strike......Page 262
Boundaries to contractualism......Page 264
The politics of labor law transformation......Page 266
Legislating the Labor Code......Page 269
Disputes Over Specific Policies: Minimum Wages and Union Powers......Page 270
Conclusions......Page 272
References......Page 273