Going to Court
Strategies of Dispute Management in an American Urban Neighborhood
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4954596 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Sally Engle Merry (0000-0001-5872-9898, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1979 |
| Volume | 13 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 891-925 |
| Publication date | 1979-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Law & Society Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0023-9216 • E-ISSN: 1540-5893 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/3053149 |
| OpenAlex | W2320046473 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 69 |
| References cited | 38 |
An analysis of the strategies of disputing pursued by the residents of a polyethnic American urban neighborhood reveals that they frequently resort to courts to manage interpersonal and crime-related disputes. Because the legal machinery available to them rarely resolves these disputes, however, the court functions as a sanction rather than a dispute settlement forum. In the absence of effective alternative informal or formal modes of resolving disputes, disputants resort to violence, avoidance, and endurance, a pattern of tolerating ongoing conflict
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