By Sophie Body-Gendrot
During this ground-breaking research, Sophie Body-Gendrot offers a comparative research of the turning out to be challenge of latest varieties of poverty and social marginalisation in modern complicated societies.
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But, as in criminal law procedures, they have become operators of a machine designed and built by legislators. Sentencing in the USA is more and more determined and imposed by legislators. Conversely, in France, individualized sentencing left to the judge’s discretionary power about mitigating circumstance is the rule, all the more for juvenile court judges. Why has there been such an evolution in France? Is it a question of trust in judges versus legislators? 4. Americans do not seek solidarity from the state.
Conversely, in France, individualized sentencing left to the judge’s discretionary power about mitigating circumstance is the rule, all the more for juvenile court judges. Why has there been such an evolution in France? Is it a question of trust in judges versus legislators? 4. Americans do not seek solidarity from the state. They do not look to the state in search of their identity. Let us remember that, for Jefferson, the best state was the state that governed the less and, for Thoreau, a state that would not govern at all.
This does not include only processes of incorporation and exclusion, but also processes that adjust relationships among actors Introduction xxix even as these actors are being integrated into or marginalized from dominant systems of relationships (Beauregard, 1995: 244). Case Studies Case studies allow us to draw comparisons between different contexts within the same country at the same period. For this book, I have chosen to study cities with a “world status” in the USA, that is, key urban nodes concentrating complex transactions and decisions emanating from headquarters of transnational corporations, financial organizations, advanced corporate service producers, and with information-processing centers supporting them.