Kitty Calavita: 3 books
by Kitty Calavita
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2010
The acclaimed socio-legal study of the Bracero labor program, why it failed, and what that means to immigration policy and organizational theory. By Kitty Calavita, professor of criminology, law and society at UC-Irvine and author of 'Invitation to Law & Society' (U. of Chicago, 2010), now with...
Invitation to Law and Society, Second Edition
An Introduction to the Study of Real Law
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2016
Law and society is a rapidly growing field that turns the conventional view of law as mythical abstraction on its head. Kitty Calavita brilliantly brings to life the ways in which law is found not only in statutes and courtrooms but in our institutions and interactions, while inviting readers into...
Appealing to Justice
Prisoner Grievances, Rights, and Carceral Logic
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2014
Having gained unique access to California prisoners and corrections officials and to thousands of prisoners’ written grievances and institutional responses, Kitty Calavita and Valerie Jenness take us inside one of the most significant, yet largely invisible, institutions in the United States. Drawing...