Introduction
Everyone has some idea what lawyers do. And most people have at least heard of
criminologists. But who knows what “law and society” is? A lawyer friend of mine,
a really smart guy, asks me regularly, “What exactly do you people do?” Once when
I was at the annual meeting of ...
introduction everyone has some idea what lawyers do and most people have at least heard of criminologists but who knows what “law and society” is a lawyer friend of
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Invitation to Law & Society
INVITATION
TO LAW AND
SOCIETY
, The Chicago Series in Law and Society
Edited by John M. Conley and Lynn Mather
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Additional series titles follow index
,Invitation to Law & Society
An Introduction to the Study of Real Law
SECOND EDITION
KITTY CALAVITA
The University of Chicago Press
Chicago and London
, KITTY CALAVITA is chancellor’s professor emerita in the Departments of Criminology, Law and Society, and
Sociology at the University of California, Irvine. She is the author, most recently, of Appealing to Justice:
Prisoner Grievances, Rights, and Carceral Logic.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Calavita, Kitty, author.
Invitation to law & society : an introduction to the study of real law / Kitty Calavita. — Second edition.
pages cm — (The Chicago series in law and society)
ISBN 978-0-226-29644-9 (cloth : alk. paper) — ISBN 978-0-226-29658-6 (pbk. : alk. paper) — ISBN
978-0-226-29661-6 (ebook) 1. Sociological jurisprudence. 2. Law—Social aspects—United States. I. Title.
II. Title: Invitation to law and society. III. Series: Chicago series in law and society.
K370.c35 2016
340'.115—dc23
2015018041
♾ This paper meets the requirements of ANSI/NISO Z39.48-1992 (Permanence of Paper).
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