Comparing Legal Cultures David Nelken

This article provides an overview of the main issues related to the definition and use of the concept of legal culture, paying particular attention to how this may be relevant to criminal law specialists. Geertz C (1973) The interpretation of cultures. Basic Books, New York Engel DM (2012) The uses of legal culture in contemporary socio-legal studies: a response to Sally Engle Merry. In: Nelken D (Hrsg.) Nutzung der Rechtskultur. Wildy, London Kurchiyan M (2009) Russian legal culture: an analysis of adaptive response to an institutional transplant. Law Soc Inquiry 34:337 Nelken D (1995) Understanding/Calling Legal Culture. In: Nelken D (Hrsg.) Sonderheft zu Rechtskultur, Diversität und Globalisierung. Social Legal Stud 4(4):435–52 Nelken D (2006) Rethinking Legal Culture. In: Freeman M (ed.) Recht und Soziologie. Oxford University Press, Oxford, S. 200 to 224 criminal justice researchers may be interested in comparing legal cultures to understand similarities and differences in crime rates or criminal liability (Nelken 2000, 2010). Alternatively, they may want to understand how criminal justice trends spread through legal registries or harmonization or collaboration efforts, and how they are reinterpreted or combated. This entry will first attempt to clarify the meaning of the term legal culture and discuss how it can be used in research.

Subsequently, three of the key issues that arise in the conduct of these investigations, which relate to the acquisition of substantial knowledge about legal or criminal law models in different legal systems, will be examined in more detail. These concern units and boundaries, elements and aggregates, and. Webber J (2004) Culture, Legal Culture and Legal Reasoning: A Commentary on Nelken. Austl J Legal Philos 29:25–36 Dr. Nelken is the recipient of the 2011 ISA-RCSL Adam Podgórecki Award for outstanding achievements in social law research in the form of outstanding and outstanding work of a lifetime. Blankenburg E (1997) Civil litigation quotas as indicators of legal culture. In: Nelken D (Hrsg.) Rechtskulturen im Vergleich. Dartmouth, Aldershot, pp. 41-68 Silbey S (2001) Legal culture and legal consciousness. In: Enzyklopädie der Sozialwissenschaften.

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It includes debates on the concept of legal culture and a variety of case studies from different legal cultures. Wacquant L (2009a) Prisons of Poverty. University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis Unfortunately, there are currently no shareable links available for this article. eBook Packages: Humanities, Social and LegalReference Module Humanities and Social Sciences Netherlands Institute for the Study of Crime and Law Enforcement (NSCR), Amsterdam, Netherlands This is an overview of the content of the subscription, accessed through your institution. Nelken, D. (2014). Comparative legal cultures. In: Bruinsma, G., Weisburd, D.

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