Getting Justice and Getting Even: Legal Consciousness Among Working-Class Americans by Sally Engle Merry

Getting Justice and Getting Even: Legal Consciousness Among Working-Class Americans

Sally Engle Merry

238 pages first pub 1990 (editions)

nonfiction sociology challenging informative reflective medium-paced
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Ordinary Americans often bring family and neighborhood problems to court, seeking justice or revenge. The litigants in these local squabbles encounter law at its boundaries in the corridors of busy city courthouses, in the offices of court clerks,...

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