Virtuous Citizens, Disruptive Subjects: Order and Complaint in a New England Court (After the Law)

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From the colonial period until the early 19th century, the rustic court served as a “folks’s court” and a local peacekeeping force in New England communities. These days, the county court has grow to be the point of interest for struggles over morality, community, and rights. Its subjects include not only affluent property owners but additionally the working class and welfare poor, the so-referred to as “other half of The usa”. The book grapples with questions of agency and the production of social order, analyzing how the ability of law will also be mobilized to blur the distinctions between “garbage” and official law.

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