@article{Berard_2010, place={Washington DC: American Sociological Association.}, title={Law, Justice & Society}, url={https://trails.asanet.org/article/view/law-justice-society}, abstractNote={This course introduces students to the study of law, legal systems and justice in a broader social context including, e.g., socio-historical trends, culture and morality, politics, and a variety of social issues and social conflicts. Topics to be studied include sociological perspectives on the history, nature and significance of legal systems; the social and political organization of legal systems; social and political influences on legislation and adjudication; law and social control; law and social change; the social organization of professional work in the legal system; and a variety of particular social, political and legal issues understood in the traditions of ‘law and society’ scholarship and ‘socio-legal’ studies. }, journal={TRAILS: Teaching Resources and Innovations Library for Sociology}, author={Berard, Tim}, year={2010}, month={Apr.} }