Jonathan Jackson, Krisztián Pósch, Thiago R. Oliveira, Ben Bradford, Sílvia M. Mendes, Ariadne Lima Natal, André Zanetic
{"title":"Fear and legitimacy in São Paulo, Brazil: Police–citizen relations in a high violence, high fear city","authors":"Jonathan Jackson, Krisztián Pósch, Thiago R. Oliveira, Ben Bradford, Sílvia M. Mendes, Ariadne Lima Natal, André Zanetic","doi":"10.1111/lasr.12589","DOIUrl":"10.1111/lasr.12589","url":null,"abstract":"<p>We examine consensual and coercive police–citizen relations in São Paulo, Brazil. According to procedural justice theory, popular legitimacy operates as part of a virtuous circle, whereby normatively appropriate police behavior encourages people to self-regulate, which then reduces the need for coercive forms of social control. But can consensual and coercive police–citizen relations be so easily disentangled in a city in which many people fear crime, where the ability to use force can often be palpable in even mundane police–citizen interactions, where some people fear police but also tolerate extreme police violence, and where the image of the military police as “just another (violent) gang” has significant cultural currency? Legitimacy has two components—assent (ascribed right to power) and consent (conferred right to govern)—and consistent with prior work from the US, UK, and Australia, we find that procedural justice is key to the legitimation of the police. Yet, the empirical link between legitimacy and legal compliance is complicated by ambivalent authority relations, rooted in part in heightened cultural expectations about police use of force to exercise power. We finish the paper with a discussion of the theoretical and policy implications of these findings.</p>","PeriodicalId":48100,"journal":{"name":"Law & Society Review","volume":"56 1","pages":"122-145"},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2022-02-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/lasr.12589","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41422989","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Disruptive prisoners: Resistance, reform, and the new deal. By Chris Clarkson and Melissa Munn. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2021. 320 pp. $26.21 paperback","authors":"Reviewed by Patrick Dwyer","doi":"10.1111/lasr.12592","DOIUrl":"10.1111/lasr.12592","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48100,"journal":{"name":"Law & Society Review","volume":"56 1","pages":"146-147"},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2022-02-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/lasr.12592","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46536947","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Kadijustiz in the ecclesiastical courts: Naming, blaming, reclaiming","authors":"Ido Shahar, Karin Carmit Yefet","doi":"10.1111/lasr.12590","DOIUrl":"10.1111/lasr.12590","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The article analyzes Israel's ecclesiastical court system through the prism of Weberian theory to both empirical and theoretical ends. On the empirical level, it aims to illuminate a grossly understudied socio-legal arena—the communal Christian courts in the Middle-East. On the theoretical level, it seeks to reclaim the Weberian concept of <i>kadijustiz</i>, which refers to “formally irrational” legal systems. In recent decades, scholars have engaged in a process of “blaming” that discredited the conceptualization of Islamic law as <i>kadijustiz</i> and resulted in the concept's erasure from socio-legal theory. After renaming it to the more neutral and non-Orientalist <i>richterjustiz</i>, we employ this new-old concept to analyze Israel's ecclesiastical courts and demonstrate its theoretical and analytical merits. The article concludes with several theoretical propositions, which draw on the empirical case study and contribute to the refinement of Weberian theory.</p>","PeriodicalId":48100,"journal":{"name":"Law & Society Review","volume":"56 1","pages":"53-77"},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2022-02-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/lasr.12590","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47187837","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Corporate personhood. By Susanna Kim Ripken. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019. 312 pp. $34.99 paperback","authors":"Reviewed by David Gindis","doi":"10.1111/lasr.12597","DOIUrl":"10.1111/lasr.12597","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48100,"journal":{"name":"Law & Society Review","volume":"56 1","pages":"155-157"},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2022-02-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/lasr.12597","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45791483","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Policing welfare: Punitive adversarialism in public assistance. By Spencer Headworth. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2021. 272 pp. $32.50 paperback","authors":"Reviewed by Sophia Hunt","doi":"10.1111/lasr.12599","DOIUrl":"10.1111/lasr.12599","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48100,"journal":{"name":"Law & Society Review","volume":"56 1","pages":"159-160"},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2022-02-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/lasr.12599","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42884441","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Reviewed by Marcio Cunha Filho, Michael López Stewart
{"title":"The gun, the ship and the pen: Warfare, constitutions and the making of the modern world. By Linda Colley. New York: Liveright, 2021. 512 pp. $35.00 hardcover","authors":"Reviewed by Marcio Cunha Filho, Michael López Stewart","doi":"10.1111/lasr.12595","DOIUrl":"10.1111/lasr.12595","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48100,"journal":{"name":"Law & Society Review","volume":"56 1","pages":"151-152"},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2022-02-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/lasr.12595","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48311815","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Unsound empire: Civilization and madness in Late-Victorian England. By Catherine Evans. New Haven: Yale University Press. 304 pp. $65.00 hardcover","authors":"Reviewed by Binyamin Blum","doi":"10.1111/lasr.12594","DOIUrl":"10.1111/lasr.12594","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48100,"journal":{"name":"Law & Society Review","volume":"56 1","pages":"149-151"},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2022-02-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/lasr.12594","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41743669","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Queering family trees: Race, reproductive justice, and lesbian motherhood. By Sandra Patton-Imani. New York: NYU Press, 2020. 336 pp. $30.00 paperback","authors":"Reviewed by Noy Naaman","doi":"10.1111/lasr.12596","DOIUrl":"10.1111/lasr.12596","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48100,"journal":{"name":"Law & Society Review","volume":"56 1","pages":"153-155"},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2022-02-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/lasr.12596","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46970721","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"When altruism is remunerated: Understanding the bases of voluntary public service among lawyers","authors":"Fiona Kay, Robert Granfield","doi":"10.1111/lasr.12586","DOIUrl":"10.1111/lasr.12586","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The legal profession claims a duty of public service that calls on lawyers to volunteer their time through “pro bono” work (i.e., free legal service). And increasingly law firms strongly endorse pro bono and even remunerate time that is provided to clients without charge. But what happens when pro bono is mandated by the law firm, even compensated? Is altruism undermined? Drawing on a survey of 845 lawyers, we develop an integrated theoretical model to account for how volunteering takes place in the course of legal work. The analysis reveals psychological traits, collective norms, economic exchanges, and organizational dimensions shape lawyers' pro bono work in intriguing ways with marked distinctions emerging when pro bono is remunerated by firms. Collective norms known to foster altruistic behavior appear most relevant to pro bono that is outside the job (i.e., unpaid), while organizational supports and constraints as well as economic exchange factors appear most salient to pro bono that is compensated within firms. We argue that a theory of pro bono work requires a more refined understanding of the forces promoting helping behaviors across several dimensions: whether to help, how much to help, and with or without compensation.</p>","PeriodicalId":48100,"journal":{"name":"Law & Society Review","volume":"56 1","pages":"78-100"},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2022-02-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/lasr.12586","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49522385","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Moralizing the law: Lactating workers and the transformation of supervising managers","authors":"Elizabeth A. Hoffmann","doi":"10.1111/lasr.12588","DOIUrl":"10.1111/lasr.12588","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The Lactation at Work Law amended the Fair Labor Standards Act to mandate employer accommodation of employees' breast milk expression. Interviews with employees, human resource specialists, and supervising managers in nine industries found that some organizations' supervising managers, who initially perceived accommodations only as a legal mandate furthering managerial goals, over time changed to understanding lactation accommodations through a children's-health lens that created morality-driven motivations for legal compliance–a “moralization of the law.” Educational discussions with lactating employees not only provided these supervising managers with insights into lactation at work, but also sensitized them to ethical issues surrounding lactation accommodations.</p>","PeriodicalId":48100,"journal":{"name":"Law & Society Review","volume":"56 1","pages":"28-52"},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2022-02-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/lasr.12588","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47349095","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}