Law Through the Life Course by Jonathan Herring PAPERBACK 9781529204681

Law Through the Life Course\nby Jonathan Herring\nPaperback\nEnglish\n\nBrand new copy from BookCurl \u2013 the UK independent online bookseller.\n\n------------------------------\nBook details\n------------------------------\nAuthor: Jonathan Herring\nTitle: Law Through the Life Course\nFormat: Paperback\nLanguage: English\nTopic: Law and society, sociology of law\nPublisher: Bristol University Press\nPublication year: 2021\nISBN-13: 9781529204681\nISBN-10: 1529204682\n\n------------------------------\nDescription\n------------------------------\nCourt decisions are typically seen as one-off interventions relating to an incident in a person\u2019s life, but a legal decision can impact on the person as they were and the person they will become. This book is the first to explore the interactions of the law with the life course in order to understand the complex life journey as a whole. Jonathan Herring reveals how the law privileges \u2018middle age\u2019 to the detriment of the whole.