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Does the law recognize legal socialization?
Journal of Social Issues ( IF 5.418 ) Pub Date : 2021-03-02 , DOI: 10.1111/josi.12420
Benjamin Justice 1 , Tracey Meares 2
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Since its emergence as a coherent field of study a half century ago, legal socialization has moved to the forefront of conversations about legal reform across multiple fields. Amidst all this work, however, there is surprisingly little scholarship on an obvious, but understudied question: Does the law itself recognize legal socialization? Knowing whether, and how, American law recognizes its need to legally socialize the citizenry toward democratic norms is a critical step for bridging the divide between legal socialization scholarship and social policy reform. For this essay, we consider all 50 state constitutions, including all previous versions. Our analysis focuses on several specific areas where the text explicitly or implicitly addresses the law as a socializing agent. What we find is a diverse landscape of state law that ranges from silence to indirect and direct endorsement of legal socialization as a purpose of law, an obligation of the state, and a right of the individual citizen. Yet we also find that these acknowledgments are complex and at times contradictory, reflecting deep fissures between the law's commitments to democratic republicanism and its anti-democratic commitments to the maintenance of privilege and overt oppression.

中文翻译:

法律承认合法社会化吗?

自从半个世纪前作为一个连贯的研究领域出现以来,法律社会化已成为跨多个领域的法律改革对话的前沿。然而,在所有这些工作中,令人惊讶的是,关于一个明显但未充分研究的问题的学术研究很少:法律本身是否承认法律社会化?了解美国法律是否以及如何承认其需要将公民合法地社会化以实现民主规范是弥合法律社会化学术和社会政策改革之间鸿沟的关键一步。在本文中,我们考虑了所有 50 部州宪法,包括所有以前的版本。我们的分析侧重于文本明确或隐含地将法律作为社会化代理的几个特定领域。我们发现的是国家法律的多样化景观,从沉默到间接和直接认可将法律社会化作为法律目的、国家义务和公民个人权利。然而,我们也发现这些承认是复杂的,有时是矛盾的,反映了法律对民主共和主义的承诺与其对维护特权和公开压迫的反民主承诺之间的深刻裂痕。
更新日期:2021-03-02
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