TY - BOOK ID - 8833767 TI - Access to justice PY - 2009 SN - 9781848552432 1848552432 1280771135 9786613681904 1848552424 9781848552425 PB - Bingley : Emerald JAI, DB - UniCat KW - Justice, Administration of. KW - Law enforcement. KW - Legal services. KW - Law, General & Comparative KW - Law, Politics & Government KW - Discrimination in justice administration. KW - Sociological jurisprudence. KW - Law KW - Law and society KW - Society and law KW - Sociology of law KW - Race discrimination in justice administration KW - Sociology KW - Jurisprudence KW - Law and the social sciences KW - Justice, Administration of KW - Legal aid. KW - Legal assistance to the poor. KW - Civil rights. KW - Causes & prevention of crime. KW - Criminal investigation & detection. KW - Social Science KW - Criminology. KW - Basic rights KW - Civil liberties KW - Civil rights KW - Constitutional rights KW - Fundamental rights KW - Rights, Civil KW - Constitutional law KW - Human rights KW - Political persecution KW - Judicare KW - Law, Poverty KW - Legal representation of the poor KW - Poor KW - Poverty law KW - Pro bono publico legal services KW - Legal services KW - Public welfare KW - In forma pauperis KW - Public defenders KW - Legal charities KW - Legal assistance to the poor KW - Administration of justice KW - Courts KW - Law and legislation KW - Legal status, laws, etc. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:8833767 AB - Around the world today, access to justice enjoys an energetic and passionate resurgence as an object both of scholarly inquiry and political contest, as both a social movement and a value commitment motivating study and action. This volume brings together cutting-edge work from practitioners and scholars in law, political science, social psychology, sociology, and sociolinguistics. This work reflects a high degree of sophistication in empirical analysis, and, as importantly, evidences a deeper engagement with social theory than past generations of scholarship. Good understanding is valuable both for its own sake and because it is essential to good policy. The richer conceptual frameworks employed by these scholars create more sophisticated research questions that in turn inform a more nuanced policy agenda. This research - on rights knowledge and police procedure, race and jury deliberation, tort reform and access to lawyers, self-interest and public service, ordinary people's experience with everyday troubles - reveals new discoveries about law and social process and provides foundation for a deeper understanding of access to justice that can inform wiser, more effective policies. ER -