Or, to put it another way, what are the symbolic features of law that are worth emphasising?

My exams had included 'problem questions', which are a big feature of law exams at degree level, so I already had the skills to approach these questions successfully.

By positing the issue of black crime as a central feature of law and order, the black community becomes viewed as a potentially violent and lawless group.

In addition, a defining feature of LAWs is the use of live ranged weapons rather than mock representations found in popular LARP gaming.

What these various movements had in common was that they provoked confrontations, first in the [United States and then to a lesser extent in Britain, which highlighted features of law and its enforcement that made academic, positivist criminology look; extremely complacent and conservative.