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Direct linkHagan, John; Levi, Ron – Social Forces, 2005
The origin and enforcement of criminal law are central to the sociological study of crime, yet we know relatively little about how the coercive apparatus of criminalization is actualized through prosecutorial and court practices. We use Bourdieu's extension of Weber's analysis of law to develop a perspective on fields of practice, the juridical…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Criminal Law, Court Litigation, Crime
