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The family justice system in England and Wales has undergone radical change over the past 20 years. A significant part of this shifting landscape has been an increasing emphasis on settling private family disputes out of court, which has been embraced by policy-makers, judges and practitioners alike and is promoted as an unqualified good. Mapping Paths to Family Justice: Resolving Family Disputes in Neoliberal Times examines the experiences of people taking part in out-of-court family dispute resolution in England and Wales. It addresses questions such as how participants’ experiences match up to the ideal; how recent changes to the legal system have affected people’s ability to access out-of-court dispute resolution; and what kind of outcomes are achieved in family dispute resolution. This book is the first study systematically to compare different forms of family dispute resolution. It explores people’s experiences of solicitor negotiations, mediation and collaborative law empirically by analyzing findings from a nationally representative survey, individual in-depth interviews with parties and practitioners, and recorded family dispute resolution processes. It considers these in the context of ongoing neoliberal reforms to the family justice system, drawing out conclusions and implications for policy and practice. .

Criminology and Criminal Justice. --- Socio-legal Studies. --- Law and the social sciences. --- Social sciences and law --- Social sciences --- Sociological jurisprudence

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Law and the social sciences --- Law --- Sociological jurisprudence --- Law and society --- Society and law --- Sociology of law --- Jurisprudence --- Sociology --- Social sciences and law --- Social sciences --- Philosophy

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Law can be seen to consist not only of rules and decisions, but also of a framework of institutions providing a structure that forms the conditions of its workable existence and acceptance. In this book Olsen and Toddington conduct a philosophical exploration and critique of these conditions: what they are and how they shape our understanding of what constitutes a legal system and the role of justice within it.

Law --- Sociological jurisprudence. --- Law and the social sciences. --- Social sciences and law --- Social sciences --- Sociological jurisprudence --- Law and society --- Society and law --- Sociology of law --- Jurisprudence --- Sociology --- Law and the social sciences --- Philosophy. --- Eunomics

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This Open-Access-book questions the relationship between institutionalized images and understandings of policing – the monolithic ideas common to most, if not all, Western law enforcement agencies – and contextual, situative, and local interactions where the human representatives of policing – street-level officers – come into contact with residents. The political and theoretical association of specific forms of “Western” policing with democratic society can be illustrated in the case of German integration: narratives of reform and essentially forging new democratic police agencies in the “new German states” stand at odds with much of the experience and statements of officers who continued to serve following (Re)Unification. Officers who present their works primarily in terms of their local responsibilities, expectations and more specifically to their unique and individual relationship and connection to their communities downplay the relevance of high-level policing policy. Based on a two-year ethnographic study of policing in a rural county in the German state of Brandenburg, this book explores the local nature of policing both in terms of how police officers imagine their communities to be and with reference to broader societal expectations and assumptions of what police, essentially, are, can effectively do, and should effectively do. About the author Aaron Bielejewski is a research associate at the Centre for Criminological Research Saxony. He studies cultural and interactionist aspects of police work and prison.

Criminology. --- Law and the social sciences. --- Crime Control and Security. --- Socio-Legal Studies. --- Social sciences and law --- Social sciences --- Sociological jurisprudence --- Crime --- Criminals --- Study and teaching --- Community policing --- Dramaturgy --- Policing --- Policing in Germany --- Ethnography --- Rural communities

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History of the law --- History of Belgium and Luxembourg --- anno 1700-1799 --- anno 1800-1899 --- Droit et sciences sociales --- Law and social sciences --- Recht en sociale wetenschappen --- Social sciences and law --- 34 <09> <493> --- Rechtsgeschiedenis --(algemeen)--België --- 34 <09> <493> Rechtsgeschiedenis --(algemeen)--België --- Professions judiciaires et juridiques --- Histoire --- Sociological jurisprudence --- History --- 19th century --- Justice --- 18th-19th centuries --- Histoire. --- Judicial power --- Judges --- Lawyers --- Notaries --- History.