The Limits of the Legal Process: A Study of Landlords, Law and Crime

This classic and pathbreaking study in the sociology of law has won multiple academic awards for its insight, clarity, and broad import in examining the UK's Rent Acts and landlord behavior over a period of time in the 1960s and 1970s. Not just a revelation of the unintended consequences of well-meaning tenant reforms-though it certainly does lay bare the bizarre side-effects of a law presented as protecting tenants from unscrupulous landlords-the book is a deeper penetration into the very notio…