Recently added articles from Law & Society Review:

Elections as Focusing Events: Explaining Attitudes Toward the Police and the Government in Comparative Perspective

Jun 01, 2008; Walker, Lee Demetrius; Waterman, Richard W ... Traditional views hold that citizens' attitudes toward the police are driven by local concerns. We contend that public attitudes toward the police are responsive to systematic and periodic national-level political factors. In particular, we show that national elections as a focusing event alter ...

Prisoners' Adjustment, Correctional Officers, and Context: The Foreground and Background of Punishment in Late Modernity

Jun 01, 2008; Vuolo, Mike; Kruttschnitt, Candace ... Past research indicates that front-line criminal justice workers are the critical players in determining whether innovations in penal policy are realized. Recent attempts to understand the diversity in the application of the penal harm movement have, however, sidestepped the primary audience of ...

Think of the Hippopotamus: Rights Consciousness in the Fat Acceptance Movement

Jun 01, 2008; Kirkland, Anna ... All the recent attention to the so-called obesity epidemic provides a fascinating context for understanding interactions between civil rights consciousness and the ordinary lives of fat people, who both deploy and resist the ideological formations that make up our most basic presumptions about ...

Incarceration, Health, and Racial Disparities in Health

Jun 01, 2008; Massoglia, Michael ... This article addresses two basic questions. First, it examines whether incarceration has a lasting impact on health functioning. Second, because blacks are more likely than whites to be exposed to the negative effects of the penal system-including fractured social bonds, reduced labor market ...

Settling for Less? Organizational Determinants of Discrimination-Charge Outcomes

Jun 01, 2008; Hirsh, C Elizabeth ... Although more than 60,000 workers formally charge their employers with unlawful sex or race employment discrimination annually, fewer than one in five charges results in outcomes favorable to the complainant. Building on sociolegal and organizational theory, this study examines how employing ...

Everyday Harm: Domestic Violence, Court Rites, and Cultures of Reconciliation

Jun 01, 2008; Guzik, Keith ... Everyday Harm: Domestic Violence, Court Rites, and Cultures of Reconciliation. By Mindie Lazarus-Black. Urbana: Univ. of Illinois Press, 2007. Pp. xii+244. $22.00 paper. Everyday Harm: Domestic Violence, Court Rites, and Cultures of Reconciliation explores the impact of Trinidad and ...

Popular Constitutionalism's Hard When You're Not Very Popular: Why the ACLU Turned to Courts

Jun 01, 2008; Zackin, Emily ... Through a case study of the early American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), this article examines the empirical ramifications of constitutional scholars' recent exhortations to "take the Constitution away from the courts" in order to promote democratic deliberation about constitutional meaning ....

The Language of Law School: Learning to "Think Like a Lawyer."

Jun 01, 2008; Constable, Marianne ... The Language of Law School: Learning to "Think Like a Lawyer." By Elizabeth Mertz. Oxford, United Kingdom: Oxford Univ. Press, 2007. Pp. xvii+308. $35.00 paper. Mertz's The Language of Law School uses "close analysis of classroom language to examine the limits that legal epistemology may ...

Words for the Taking: The Hunt for a Plagiarist

Jun 01, 2008; Burgess, Susan ... Words for the Taking: The Hunt for a Plagiarist. By Neal Bowers. Carbondale: Southern Illinois Univ. Press, [1997] 2007. Pp. xvii+152. $14.95 paper. Neal Bowers, a well-published poet and tenured university professor, is living the good life in Ames, Iowa. Or at least he is, until he ...

Injury: The Politics of Product Design and Safety Law in the United States

Jun 01, 2008; Daniels, Stephen ... Injury: The Politics of Product Design and Safety Law in the United States. By Sarah S. Lochlann Jain. Princeton, NJ: Princeton Univ. Press, 2006. Pp. xii + 214. $55.00 cloth; $19.95 paper. Injury offers a challenging and provocative discussion of issues that are the subject of intense ...

Law as a Means to an End: Threat to the Rule of Law

Jun 01, 2008; Cotterrell, Roger ... Law as a Means to an End: Threat to the Rule of Law. By Brian Z. Tamanaha. New York: Cambridge Univ. Press, 2006. Pp. xii + 254. $80.00 cloth; $31.99 paper. Tamanaha's previous books have shown his ability to present vivid arguments on large themes of great contemporary interest. He ...

Bodies in Revolt: Gender, Disability, and a Workplace Ethic of Care

Jun 01, 2008; Santore, Daniel ... Bodies in Revolt: Gender, Disability, and a Workplace Ethic of Care. By Ruth O'Brien. New York: Routledge, 2005. Pp. 198. $135.00 cloth; $36.95 paper. What are the conditions under which workers' rights legislation can produce revolutionary change in the workplace? O'Brien proposes an ...

Answering the Call of the Court: How Justices and Litigants Set the Supreme Court Agenda

Jun 01, 2008; Sommer, Udi ... Answering the Call of the Court: How Justices and Litigants Set the Supreme Court Agenda. By Vanessa A. Baird. Charlottesville and London: Univ. of Virginia Press, 2007. Pp. xii+225. $45.00 cloth. In Answenng the Call of the Court: How Justices and Litigants Set the Supreme Court Agenda, ...