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| Foreword | |
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| Preface | |
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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Introduction: Courts and Case Processing | |
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| Why Study Courts? | |
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| The Structure and Jurisdiction of U.S. Courts | |
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| Courtroom Actors | |
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| Court Process | |
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| Decision Making | |
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| Overview of the Book, Key Terms, Discussion Questions, Web Resources | |
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| Overview of Courts | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Conflict: The Wellspring of the Modern Court | |
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| How Courts Make Law | |
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| The Role of the Courts in Criminal Justice | |
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| Striking a Difficult Balance | |
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| The Juvenile Court | |
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| Summary: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives on Courts | |
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| Key Terms, Discussion Questions, Web Resources | |
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| How to Read a Research Article | |
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| Readings | |
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| The Process Is the Punishment: Handling Cases in a Lower Criminal Court | |
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| The Honest Politician's Guide to Juvenile Justice in the Twenty-First Century | |
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| The Rehnquist Court and Criminal Justice: An Empirical Assessment | |
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| Prosecutors and Defense Attorneys | |
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| Introduction | |
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| The Adversarial System | |
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| Prosecutors | |
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| Defense Attorneys | |
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| Summary: Prosecutors and Defense Attorneys | |
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| Key Terms, Discussion Questions, Web Resources | |
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| Readings | |
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| Prosecutorial Justifications for Sexual Assault Case Rejection: Guarding the "Gateway to Justice," | |
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| Modeling Prosecutors' Charging Decisions in Domestic Violence Cases | |
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| Prosecutorial Discretion in Seeking Death: An Analysis of Racial Disparity in the Pretrial Stages of Case Processing in a Midwestern County | |
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| The Criminal Defense Lawyer: Zealous Advocate, Double Agent, or Beleaguered Dealer? | |
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| Indigent Defenders Get the Job Done And Done Well | |
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| Negotiating a Plea: Bargaining With the Devil | |
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| Judges and Jurors | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Judges and Jurors: Fact Finding and Applying the Law | |
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| Judges | |
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| Jurors and Jury Decision Making | |
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| Summary: Judges and Jurors in the Courtroom | |
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| Key Terms, Discussion Questions, Web Resources | |
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| Readings | |
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| Women and Men Policymakers: Does the Judge's Gender Affect the Sentencing of Criminal Defendants? | |
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| Judges and the Politics of Death: Deciding Between the Bill of Rights and the Next Election in Capital Cases | |
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| Juror Decision Making in Hate Crime Cases | |
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| Gazing Into the Crystal Ball: Can Jurors Accurately Predict Dangerousness in Capital Cases? | |
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| Racially Based Jury Nullification: Black Power in the Criminal Justice System | |
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| Plea Bargaining and Trial Dynamics | |
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| Introduction | |
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| The Court Process | |
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| Plea Bargaining | |
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| The Courtroom Workgroup: Cooperation Rather Than Conflict | |
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| Media Influence in Criminal Trials | |
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| Summary: Pleas and Trials | |
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| Key Terms, Discussion Questions, Web Resources | |
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| Readings | |
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| Prosecutorial Discretion and Plea Bargaining in the United States, France, Germany, and Italy: A Comparative Perspective | |
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| The Impact of Arizona's Mandatory Drug Treatment Law on Prosecutorial Plea Bargaining in Drug Cases | |
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| It's Not the Old Ball Game: Three Strikes and the Courtroom Workgroup | |
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| Juvenile Justice Reform and the Courtroom Workgroup: Issues of Perception and Workload | |
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| The Entertainment Value of a Trial: How Media Access to the Courtroom Is Changing the American Judicial Process | |
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| Sentencing | |
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| Introduction | |
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| The Goals of Sentencing | |
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| The Judge's Options at Sentencing | |
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| How Do Judges Decide? | |
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| Summary: Sentencing-An Inexact Science | |
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| Key Terms, Discussion Questions, Web Resources | |
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| Readings | |
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| The Brothel Boy | |
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| Is Preferential Treatment of Female Offenders a Thing of the Past? A Multisite Study of Gender, Race, and Imprisonment | |
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| The Interactive Effects of Victim Race and Gender on Death Sentence Disparity Findings | |
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| The Juvenile Penalty: A Comparison of Juvenile and Young Adult Sentencing Outcomes in Criminal Court | |
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| Specialized Courts and Other Trends in Adjudication | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Trendy Courts? | |
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| The Specialized Court Movement | |
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| Restorative Justice | |
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| Key Terms, Discussion Questions, Web Resources | |
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| Summary: Specialized Courts | |
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| Readings | |
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| The Baltimore City Drug Treatment Court: One-Year Results From a Randomized Study | |
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| Combating Domestic Violence: Findings From an Evaluation of a Local Domestic Violence Court | |
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| A Therapeutic Jurisprudence Approach to the Trial Process in Domestic Violence Felony Trials | |
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| Teen Court Referral, Sentencing, and Subsequent Recidivism: Two Proportional Hazards Models and a Little Speculation | |
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| Beyond Conviction and Sentencing | |
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| Introduction | |
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| What Happens Next? | |
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| Underlying Concepts | |
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| Appeals | |
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| Habeas Corpus | |
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| Considering Clemency | |
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| Summary | |
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| Key Terms, Discussion Questions, Web Resources | |
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| Readings | |
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| Appellate Court Supervisions in the Federal Judiciary: A Hierarchical Perspective | |
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| Measuring the Preferences of State Supreme Court Judges | |
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| The Federal Habeas Corpus Process: Unraveling the Issues | |
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| Who Has the Body? The Paths to Habeas Corpus Reform | |
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| Identity, Strategy, and Feminist Politics: Clemency for Battered Women Who Kill | |
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| Glossary | |
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| References | |
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| Index | |
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| About the Authors | |