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Cultural Bias in the American Legal System

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 July 2024

Daniel H. Swett
Daniel H. Swett*
Affiliation:
San Francisco State College
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Generally, studies in legal anthropology have tended to focus on the codes, written or unwritten, by which behavior is regulated in human societies and on the regularized processes by which conflicts are resolved in accordance with these codes. Thus, in considering a cross-cultural operational definition of law, Nader (1965: 6) notes that all societies have rules governing behavior, some preferential and some prescribed.

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Research Article
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Law & Society Review , Volume 4 , Issue 1 , August 1969 , pp. 79 - 110
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Copyright © 1969 by the Law and Society Association

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