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Friendship is one of our most important social institutions. It is the not only the salve for personal loneliness and isolation; it is the glue that binds society together. Yet for a host of reasons--longer hours at work, the Internet, suburban sprawl--many have argued that friendship is on the decline in contemporary America. In social surveys, researchers have found that Americans on average have fewer friends today than in times past. In Friend v. Friend, Ethan J. Leib takes stock of this most ancient of social institutions and its ongoing transformations, and contends that it could benefit

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This work answers two basic questions: how does the American criminal justice system address a defendant's family status? And how should a defendant's family status be recognized in a criminal justice system situated within a liberal democracy committed to egalitarian principles of non-discrimination?

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