Dr Doreen McBarnet is a Professorial Fellow in Socio-Legal Studies in the Centre for Socio-Legal Studies, University of Oxford, UK.

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• Contents: Introduction. Part I: Opening Perspectives: False dichotomies in criminal justice research. Part II: Taking Law Seriously in Socio-Legal Research: Explaining Conviction: Pre-trial procedures and the construction of conviction; Convincing the court: the structure of legal proof; Arrest: the legal context of policing; A right to silence?. Part III: Legal Form, Legal Ideology, Legal Actors: Magistrates' courts and the ideology of justice; Criminal justice and the ideology of the rule of law; Law and capital: the role of legal form and legal actors. Part IV: Law, Class and Labelling: It's not what you do but the way that you do it: tax evasion, tax avoidance and the boundaries of deviance; Whiter than white collar crime: tax, fraud insurance and the management of stigma. Part V: From Regulator to Regulated: Creative Compliance: Law, policy and legal avoidance: can law effectively implement egalitarian policies?; International corporate finance and the challenge of creative compliance (with C. Whelan); Transnational transactions: legal work, cross-border commerce and global regulation; Looking for loopholes. Part VI: Law, Power and Control: Creative compliance and the defeat of legal control: the magic of the orphan subsidiary (with C. Whelan); The elusive spirit of the law: formalism and the struggle for legal control; When compliance is not the solution but the problem: from changes in law to changes in attitude. Appendix: further publications; Index.