The Routledge Handbook of Law and Death

Marc Trabsky, Imogen Jones

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Routledge
01 October 2024

Crime & criminology; Criminology: legal aspects; Medical & healthcare law; Personal & public health; Medical sociology

The Routledge Handbook of Law and Death provides a comprehensive survey of contemporary scholarship on the intersections of law and death in the 21st century.

It showcases how socio-legal scholars have contributed to the critical turn in death studies and how the sociology of death has impacted upon the discipline of law. In bringing together prominent academics and emerging experts from a diverse range of disciplines, the Handbook shows how, far from shunning questions of mortality, legal institutions incessantly talk about death. Touching upon the epistemologies and materialities of death, and problems of contested deaths and posthumous harms, the Handbook questions what is distinctive about the disciplinary alignment of law and death, how law regulates and manages death in the everyday, and how thinking with law can enrich our understandings of the presence of death in our lives.

In a time when the world is facing global inequalities in living and dying, and legal institutions are increasingly interrogating their relationships to death, this Handbook makes for essential reading for scholars, students, and practitioners in law, humanities, and the social sciences.

Edited by: Marc Trabsky, Imogen Jones
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 246mm, Width: 174mm,
Weight: 453g
ISBN: 9781032303383
ISBN 10: 1032303387
Pages: 352
Publication Date: 01 October 2024
Audience: College/higher education , Primary
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Forthcoming

Marc Trabsky is an Associate Professor at La Trobe University, Australia. Imogen Jones is an Associate Professor at the University of Leeds, United Kingdom.