Mind the Gap
The Place of Gap Studies in Sociolegal Scholarship
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12795159 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Jon B Gould (American University, corresponding author), Scott Barclay (0000-0002-9581-5709, Drexel University) |
| Year | 2012 |
| Volume | 8 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 323-335 |
| Publication date | 2012-08-02 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Annual Review of Law and Social Science (BOOK_SERIES) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1550-3585 • E-ISSN: 1550-3631 |
| Publisher | Annual Reviews (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1146/annurev-lawsocsci-102811-173833 |
| OpenAlex | W2122878169 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 58 |
| References cited | 31 |
Arising in the late 1960s and early 1970s—in conjunction with the development of sociology of law and the Law and Society Association—gap studies dominated much of sociolegal scholarship for a time, providing multiple examples of the ways in which law on the books is inconsistent with law in action. These gaps, in turn, spurred calls for legal reform. By the 1980s, however, gap studies came in for criticism, not only for the presumption that law was purposively rational but also for scholars' beliefs that they could identify law's aims. To some, the findings were naïve or undertheorized. Nonetheless, gap studies have illuminated many legal practices and have helped to identify pathways by which law may have an impact. Even as sociolegal scholarship has become increasingly decentered from law, one still sees the tendrils of gap studies in research exploring discrepancies between expectations and actuality in law and legality
Criticism · Law and economics · Philosophy of law · Political science · Presumption · Principle of legality · Public law · Scholarship · Sociology · Judicial and Constitutional Studies · Law · Law in Society and Culture · Legal Education and Practice Innovations
Law, Sociology of
Claim-Making in Comparative Perspective
Activists in International Courts
The path to human rights in Romania
A socio-legal analysis of the Belgian protective legislation towards victims of aggravated forms of migrant smuggling
Blocking the Law from Within
Embedding constitutional rights
Language-and-Law Scholarship
Reproductive Justice
L'autonomie de l'équilibriste
Entre mobilisations et institutions
Defining the ‘legal’
Bereaved Family ‘Involvement’ in (Prisoner) Death Investigations
After Hegemony
The changing status of European Union nationals in the United Kingdom following Brexit
Accounting for the (Almost Complete) Failure of the Entrapment Defense in Post-9/11 US Terrorism Cases
The Limits of Discretion
(Re)constructing Prisoner Death Investigations
The Cyclical Nature of Poverty
The Social Movement Turn in Law
Law's Social Forms
Opening the Gender Box
Prefigurative Legality
The Impact of Adjacent Laws on Implementing Violence Against Women Laws
Living Documents in Transnational Spaces of Migration between El Salvador and the United States
Stagnated, on the Verge of Breakthrough, or Both? The State of Big Theories of Legal Phenomena
Defining Crimes in a Global Age
The Cruel Optimism of International Prison Regulation
Organizational culture and context in progressive prosecutorial reform
Commentary on Carroll Seron's Presidential Address
Beyond the Penal Code
Non-enforcement as a technique of governance – The case of rental housing in the Netherlands
Emergent Hybrid Legality
When Regulation Travels
Is There a Canon of Law and Society
The Use of Case Studies in Law and Social Science Research
Resisting and enabling domination
Law, compliance, and variation
Settler vigilantism and place remaking in the Occupied Palestinian Territories
Institutions Are Not Rules
No Lawless Place
Technologies of Crime Prediction
Interpretation at the Asylum Office
Prosecutor‐Led Bail Reform
Driver's Licenses for All? Racialized Illegality and the Implementation of Progressive Immigration Policy in California
Supreme Court Power and Agency Implementation in Environmental Litigation
Geographic Arbitrariness in Capital Punishment
Who Is an Indian Child? Institutional Context, Tribal Sovereignty, and Race-Making in Fragmented States
The Unbearable Lightness of Rights
Between the constitution and the clinic
Procedural convergence
The Law-Before
State Actors as Hard-to-Reach Populations
"The Mechanisms behind Litigation's "Radiating Effects
Legality with a Vengeance
Abortion in South Asia, 1860-1947
Reversed accounting
Migrant Narratives and Ethnographic Tropes
Justice without trial
Judicial policies
Same-Sex Marriage
The Common Place of Law
Law in Everyday Life
Distorting the Law
Three Strikes and You Are Out, but Why? The Psychology of Public Support for Punishing Rule Breakers
Legal Consciousness and Dispute Resolution
Law Books and Books about Law
Prayer in the Public Schools
The Concept of Laws in Social Science
Law and the Behavioral Sciences
The Pull of the Policy Audience
In Search of Juvenile Justice
Three Strikes and You Are Out, but Why? The Psychology of Public Support for Punishing Rule Breakers
The Impact of Changes in Judicial Doctrine
After Legal Consciousness
Mediation in Small Claims Court
"What Rights?" The Construction of Political Claims to American Health Care Entitlements
Evaluating Criminal Justice Reforms
Redirecting Social Studies of Law
An Impact Analysis of Judge-Made Products Liability Policies
| Unique citing works | 58 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 4,46 |
| Citation span | 2013 - 2026 (14) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 58 |