Author: Merry, Sally Engle
Title: Getting Justice and Getting Even: Legal Consciousness among Working-Class Americans
Description: Chicago, University of Chicago Press, (1990). orig.cloth. 23x15cm, x, 227 pp. Minor rubbing, VG. ¶ Contents: Introduction; The Setting: Two New England Towns & Their Lower Courts; Legal Consciousness & Types of Problems; The Social Context of Problems; Problems & Cases; The Discourses of the Lower Court; Legal Experience & Legal Consciousness; Conclusions: The Paradox of Legal Entitlement; Appendix.

Keywords: Sociological Jurisprudence, Legal Sociology, Judicial Processes, United States, New England, Law Process, , ,