Law and Community in Three American Towns /

Law and Community in Three American Towns / / Barbara Yngvesson, Carol J. Greenhouse, David M. Engel.

Many commentators on the contemporary United States believe that current rates of litigation are a sign of decay in the nation’s social fabric. Law and Community in Three American Towns explores how ordinary people in three towns—located in New England, the Midwest, and the South—view the law, court...

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Greenhouse, Carol J.,
Engel, David M.,
Yngvesson, Barbara,
Place / Publishing House:Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2018]
©1994
Year of Publication:2018
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (240 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction: Ethnographic Issues
  • PART ONE. Ethnographic Studies
  • Chapter 1. The Oven Bird's Song: Insiders, Outsiders, and Personal Injuries in an American Community
  • Chapter 2. Making Law at the Doorway: The Clerk, the Court, and the Construction of Community in a New England Town
  • Chapter 3. Courting Difference: Issues of Interpretation and Comparison in the Study of Legal Ideologies
  • PART TWO. Law, Values, and the Discourse of Community
  • Chapter 4. Avoidance and Involvement
  • Chapter 5. Connection and Separation
  • Chapter 6. History and Place
  • Conclusion: The Paradox of Community
  • Notes
  • References
  • Index

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