Nobody's law : legal consciousness and legal alienation in everyday life / Marc Hertogh.
Title
Nobody's law : legal consciousness and legal alienation in everyday life / Marc Hertogh.
Description
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Nobody's Law shows how people - who are disappointed, disenchanted, and outraged about the justice system - gradually move away from law. Using detailed case studies and combining different theoretical perspectives, this book explores the legal consciousness of ordinary people, businessmen, and street-level bureaucrats in the Netherlands. The empirical research in this study tells an original and alternative narrative about the role of law in everyday life. While previous studies emphasize the law's hegemony and argue that it's 'all over', Hertogh shows that legal proliferation makes it harder for people to know, and subsequently identify with, the law. As a result, official law has become increasingly remote and irrelevant to many people. The central finding presented in this highly topical text is that these developments signal a process of 'legal alienation'-- a gradual and mundane process with potentially serious consequences for the legitimacy of law. A timely and original study, this book will be of particular interest to scholars in the fields of law and society, socio-legal studies and legal theory.
Creator
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan,
Date
Contributor
SpringerLink (Online service)
Format
1 online resource (xv, 215 p.) : ill.
Language
eng
Type
a
Access Rights
Publisher's Web site. Access restricted to the University of Catania community.
DOI
10.1057/978-1-137-60397-5 doi
ISBN
1137603968
9781137603968
1137603976 (electronic bk.)
9781137603975 (electronic bk.)
1137603968
9781137603968
Series
Palgrave Socio-Legal Studies
Palgrave Macmillan socio-legal studies.
Collection
Citation
Hertogh, M. L. M., 1968-, “Nobody's law : legal consciousness and legal alienation in everyday life / Marc Hertogh.,” Lex e-books - Collana, accessed December 23, 2024, http://ebooks.unict.it/omeka/items/show/239.