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Reflections on the sociology of law: A rejection of law as ‘socially marginal’
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posted on 2023-06-08, 14:14 authored by Jane DonoghueRejecting the concept of law as subservient to social pathology, the principle aim of this article is to locate law as a critical matter of social structure – and power – which requires to be considered as a central element in the construction of society and social institutions. As such, this article contends that wider jurisprudential notions such as legal procedure and procedural justice, and juridical power and discretion are cogent, robust normative social concerns (as much as they are legal concerns) that positively require consideration and representation in the empirical study of sociological phenomena. Reflecting upon scholarship and research evidence on legal procedure and decision-making, the article attempts to elucidate the inter-relationship between power, ‘the social’, and the operation of law. It concludes that law is not ‘socially marginal’ but socially, totally central
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International Journal of Law, Crime and JusticeISSN
1756-0616Publisher
ElsevierExternal DOI
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1-2Volume
37Page range
51-63Department affiliated with
- Law Publications
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