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Frontmatter -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- TABLE OF CASES -- TABLE OF AUTHORS AND JUDGES -- CHAPTER ONE. Introduction -- CHAPTER TWO. Positivism -- CHAPTER THREE. Natural Law Thought -- CHAPTER FOUR. Sociological Jurisprudence -- CHAPTER FIVE. The Judicial Process -- APPENDIX. Jurisprudence In Canada -- INDEX

1. A realist concept of ideology -- 2. Three concepts of law -- 3. Tradition, agreement and argument in jurisprudence -- 4. The jurisprudence game : the legal construction of objectivity -- 5. Rights fetishism -- 6. Against jurisprudence : the exclusion of standpoint -- 7. By way of a conclusion : standpoint relativity and the value of law.

'Smith and Natalier have produced an accessible, wide-ranging and lucid text which sets the major questions of criminal justice within the broad framework of classical and contemporary sociological theory. It represents a significant step forward among teaching texts in the field, synthesising some difficult material without over-simplifying it, and providing a broad-overview without losing sight of the texture of discreet issues' - Professor Nicola Lacey, London School of Economics

The development of sociology of law -- The identity and function of sociology of law -- The place of values in socio-legal studies -- Legal culture and cultural diversity -- Socio-legal studies and the law school -- Jurisprudence in context -- The jurist as humanist polymath (Petrażycki) -- The jurist as legal sociologist (Ehrlich) -- Radical legal pluralism in the shadow of fascism (Romano) -- A functional jurisprudence for the welfare state (Lundstedt) -- Parallel histories-jurisprudence and social science -- Contemporary interactions-legal theory and social theory -- Linked futures-jurisprudence and socio-legal studies.

Cover -- Copyright information -- Foreword to the English edition -- Contents -- Introduction -- 1 The goal of the work and the research strategy -- 2 The topography of the limits of juristic power -- 3 Politico-legal culture -- 4 Legal text -- 5 Juristic culture -- 6 The axiological sense of the individual -- Part One The realization of the law, according to the Petra ż yckian tradition -- 1 The ontology of law according to Leon Petra ż ycki -- 1.1 Introductory remarks -- 1.1.1 "The unrecognized father of the sociology of law" -- 1.1.2 Petra ż ycki today -- 1.1.3 Ways of reading -- 1.2 Philosophical background -- 1.2.1 The importance of philosophical optics -- 1.2.2 Leon Petra ż ycki's theory in the light of other currents of jurisprudence -- 1.2.3 The difficulty with identifying the philosophical assumptions adopted in Leon Petra ż ycki's theory -- 1.2.4 Leon Petra ż ycki's theory and philosophical positivism -- 1.2.5 Leon Petra ż ycki's theory and the phenomenology of Franz Brentano -- 1.2.6 Other paths -- 1.2.7 Summary -- 1.3 The individual-projectional aspect of law -- 1.3.1 The ontological complexity of law -- 1.3.2 The characteristics of the emotions -- 1.3.3 The characteristics of ethical emotions -- 1.3.4 The characteristics of legal emotions -- 1.3.5 The characteristics of "official-legal" emotions -- 1.4 The textual aspect of law -- 1.4.1 Towards the text - two layers of law -- 1.4.2 The object of interpretation -- 1.4.3 The problem of the meaning of legal text -- 1.4.4 Theoretical and practical knowledge -- 1.5 The social-projectional aspect of law -- 1.5.1 The unifying function of jurisprudence -- 1.5.2 The ontological status of the socio-projectional dimension of law -- 1.6 The political aspect of law -- 1.6.1 The axiological dimension of legal policy -- 1.6.2 The instrumental dimension of legal policy.