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Hagan, 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
Hooghoff, Hans – 1985
This series of lessons is intended to help high school students in the Netherlands consider how they look at, react to, and judge criminal events. The first part of the publication discusses different teaching approaches used in the lessons. These include: (1) a business analysis--study of the organization and structure of the criminal…
Descriptors: Comparative Education, Course Content, Crime, Criminal Law