Law, Crime and Culture: Law, Crime and Culture
About the Book Series
The Law, Crime and Culture series explores an increasingly important and topical area of interdisciplinary research, covering a broad range of themes from understandings of social and legal order in individual cultures to intersections of criminological, legal and cultural inquiry. The series promotes cross-disciplinary and comparative research and the series editors actively welcome submissions on the many and varied topics related to crime, social control, and legal culture across the world.
Honour-Based Violence and Forced Marriages: Community and Restorative Practices in Europe
1st Edition
By Clara Rigoni
May 27, 2024
In the last 20 years, the related phenomena of honour-based violence and forced marriages have received increasing attention at the international and European level. Punitive responses towards this type of violence have been adopted, including ad hoc criminalisation and legislation containing ...
The Social Construction of Corruption in Europe
1st Edition
By Dirk Tänzler, Konstadinos Maras
May 24, 2017
The volume demonstrates the suitability of the theory of social constructivism in portraying and analyzing the diversity of the phenomenon of corruption. The approach of social constructivism taken in this volume is able to reconstruct the 'construction of corruption' both from a societal ...