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The Durkheimian Tradition in the Sociology of Law

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Donald Black, Sociological Justice. New York: Oxford University Press, 1989. x + 179 pp. (SJ)

Frank Pearce, The Radical Durkheim. London: Unwin Hyman, 1989. xvi + 232 pp. (RD)

Jeffrey C. Alexander (ed.), Durkheimian Sociology: Cultural Studies. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1988. xi + 227 pp. (DSCS)

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Copyright © 1991 by The Law and Society Association

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Footnotes

I am grateful to Joseph Sanders for comments on a draft of this essay.

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