Access to justice
Around the world today, access to justice enjoys an energetic and passionate resurgence as an object both of scholarly inquiry and political contest, as both a social movement and a value commitment motivating study and action. This volume brings together cutting-edge work from practitioners and sch...
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| Other Authors | |
|---|---|
| Format | Electronic eBook |
| Language | English |
| Published |
Bingley, UK :
Emerald JAI,
2009.
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| Edition | 1st ed |
| Series | Sociology of crime, law and deviance ;
v. 12. |
| Subjects | |
| Online Access | Full text |
| ISBN | 9781848552432 1848552432 9781848552425 1848552424 |
| ISSN | 1521-6136 ; |
| DOI | 10.1108/S1521-6136(2009)12 |
| Physical Description | 1 online resource (xvii, 269 p.) : ill. |
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Table of Contents:
- Access to justice : classical approaches and new directions
- The legal problems of everyday life / Ab Currie
- Failure to recall : indications from the English and Welsh Civil and Social Justice Survey of the relative severity and incidence of civil justice problems / Pascoe Pleasence, Nigel J. Balmer and Tania Tam
- Rights consciousness in criminal procedure : a theoretical and empirical inquiry / Kathryne M. Young
- Beyond court interpreters : exploring the idea of designated Spanish-speaking courtrooms to address language barriers to justice in the United States / Kwai Hang Ng
- Access to juries : some puzzles regarding race and jury participation / Mary R. Rose
- Legal services for the poor : access, self-interest, and pro bono / Stephen Daniels and Joanne Martin
- Expanding access to lawyers : the role of legal advice centers / Masayuki Murayama
- Personal responsibility v. corporate liability : how personal injury lawyers screen cases in an era of tort reform / Mary Nell Trautner
- When bad things happen : toward a sociology of troubles / Jennifer Earl
- Comment : a revival of access to justice research? / Bryant G. Garth.