Description
Winner of the 2020 Hart Prize for Early Career Academics
About the Author
Insa Lee Koch is Assistant Professor in Law at the London School of Economics and Director of the Anthropology and Law Programme. She has published on politics, austerity, social housing, the welfare state and criminal justice reforms. Her research combines an interest in political economy and anthropology with criminology, law and social theory.
Reviews
This long-awaited book ... is something of a tour de force. Personalizing the State is informed by a very close and careful reading of relevant academic literature, drawn particularly from social policy, community studies, political sociology, and criminology, from which the author has learned a great deal, and by some quite outstanding ethnographic fieldwork with residents on the estate. ... Those who doubt whether anthropology can make a significant contribution to socio-legal studies will, I am sure, have their doubts allayed by this book. * Michael Adler, Journal of Law and Society *
The book is highly recommended to anyone who is looking to capture the complex realities of state-citizen relations and the multifarious ways in which dominant discourses of the state are reproduced, subverted and challenged. * Vickie Cooper, Theoretical Criminology *
Personalizing the State is a crucial piece of work, which warrants wide readership. Despite Koch's introductory guidance that a reader can dip into chapters of interest, it is a book well worth reading in full. Personalizing the State is an exemplary piece of ethnographic criminology, and it has set a high standard for criminological work moving forwards. * Roxana Willis, Punishment & Society *
Awards
Winner of Winner of the 2020 Hart Prize for Earler Career Academics Shortlisted for the Hart Book Prize.
Book Information
ISBN 9780198807513
Author Insa Lee Koch
Format Hardback
Page Count 290
Imprint Oxford University Press
Publisher Oxford University Press
Dimensions(mm) 224mm * 149mm * 23mm