Stuart A. Scheingold

The politics of law and order : street crime and public policy

The Politics of Law and Order: Street Crime and Public Policy is a English book written by Stuart a. Scheingold. This book falls under Law genre.Buy The

The Politics of Street Crime: Criminal Process and Cultural Obsession.

Tables and Figures Preface 1. Street Crime, Criminology, and the State Criminological Discourse The Cultural Resonance of Volitional Criminology The Political Resonance of Volitional Criminology 2. The Politicization of Street Crime Politicization Patterns of Politicization Public Quiescence The Law and Order Coalition Containing Politicization 3. Policy, Politics, and the Police Patterns of Policy Change The Resilience of Traditional Policing Lurching toward Reform The Politics of Police Reform 4. Policy, Politics, and the Criminal Courts Patterns of Policy Change Prosecutors: The Triumph of Reform Judges: The Politics of Independence 5. Politics, Criminology, and Crisis Criminology and Policy The symbolic Politics of Street Crime Politicization and Policy Notes Bibliography Index

Cause lawyering and the state in a global era

Sarat and Scheingolds book, Cause Lawyering, the first volume of its kind, coined the term for law as practiced by the politically motivated and those devoted to moral activism. The new collection examines cause lawyering in the global context, exploring the ways in which it is influencing and being influenced by the disaggregation of state power associated with democratization, and how democratization empowers lawyers who want to effect change. New configurations of state power create opportunities for altering the political and social status quo. Cause lawyers are developing transnational networks to exploit these global opportunities, and to help strengthen international norms on issues such as human rights. The fifteen essays will focus on different national settings including South Africa, Israel, the U.K. and Latin America.

Politics, Public Policy, and Street Crime:

For more than two decades, the United States has been at war with street crime, but we have precious little to show for it. Our obsession with punishment at the expense of, indeed to the exclusion of, prevention is not just futile but criminogenic and divisive. This article explains what is problematic about our indiscriminately punitive response to street crime and explores the political forces driving these self-defeating policies. What emerges is an understanding of the politics of street crime that is rooted less in the fear of crime than in a variety of anxieties that transcend street crime but are affectively related to it. Criminals provide a convenient target for the anger that is widely felt, but is not quite appropriate to express, with respect to unwelcome changes in race relations, employment opportunities, homelessness, and the like. To serve their own distinct but convergent purposes, the media, the public, and the politicians all contribute to the perpetuation of our perverse approach to controlling street crime. While there are countervailing forces at work, they seem unlikely to prevail in the foreseeable future.

The Cultural Lives of Cause Lawyers: Bringing Cultural Analysis to the Study of Cause Lawyers: An Introduction

This book seeks to illuminatewhat we call the cultural lives of cause lawyers by examining their representation in various popularmedia (includingfilm, fiction, mass-marketed nonfiction, television, and journalism), the work they do as creators of cultural products, and the way those representations and products are received and consumed by various audiences. Attending to media representations and the culture work done by cause lawyers, we can seewhatmaterial is available for citizens and others to use in fashioning understandings of those lawyers. It also provides a vehicle for determining whether, how, and to what extent cause lawyering is embedded in the discourses and symbolic practices around which ordinary citizens organize their understanding of social, political, and legal life. This fifth edited volume of the Cause Lawyering Project adds an important new dimension to the body of research that has been growing steadily in the decade since the publication in 1998 of our first volume, Cause Lawyering: Political Commitments and Professional Responsibilities. As we detail below, all of the previous volumes have, in one way or another, focused on the place of cause lawyering in the legal profession and on its political aspirations, activities, and achievements. In contrast to the actions and institutions that were the subject of that research, here we turn to the broader context of cultural “sensibilities” and “mentalities.” This book is but a first step into an area of research rather than the culmination of a research enterprise. It offers glimpses of cause lawyers in a few political and legal contexts in the United States, United Kingdom, and Latin America rather than a systematic survey. It is the start of an effort to make sense

The Community in Perspective: Public Policy and Political Structure:

It is now clear that the original integrative goals are beyond the reach of the European Community. At the same time it is equally clear that the Community has been playing an increasingly important part in relations among the member states and has been functioning as a bloc in an imposing range of international negotiations. The Communitys policy role varies, however, within and among sectors in ways which resist generalization and explanation. This article traces patterns in the Communitys policy record and relates those patterns to discontinuities in the political structure of the European Community—in particular, to weak linkages between Community institutions and grass roots and elite politics at the national level. The result is a Community which can be expected to play a prominent but decidedly derivative role in the political, economic, and social problems facing Western Europe in the years immediately ahead.

Rights, Community, and Democracy: A Sociolegal Critique of the Neoconservative Case Against Rights

This chapter critically assesses the neoconservative communitarian critique of rights talk and practices in the contemporary United States. We argue that the critics are unconvincing about: (a) the institutional history of civil rights development; (b) the actual character of rights talk and practices in ordinary life; and (c) the allegation that rights talk undermines community, which remains a poorly specified and implicitly inegalitarian standard. Our argument is developed on the basis of sociolegal theory and empirical study over the last several decades.

Rights: Legal Aspects

The language of legal rights generally connotes potentially enforceable claims of entitlement to certain freedoms, goods, or conditions. Rights traditionally have been identified with Western liberal constitutional regimes, but non-Western foundations and international human rights conventions have become increasingly salient in contemporary world politics. This article reviews a wide range of perspectives about how rights are conceptualized and critically assessed by legal philosophers, jurisprudential analysts, and empirical social scientists.