Public defenders : pragmatic and political motivations to represent the indigent / / Michael Scott Weiss.

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Superior document:Criminal justice : recent scholarship
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Year of Publication:2005
Language:English
Series:Criminal justice (LFB Scholarly Publishing LLC)
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Physical Description:vii, 303 p.
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Table of Contents:
  • A study of public defender motivations
  • Defense attorneys in the criminal courts
  • Challenges of public defense
  • A qualitative, semi-structured interview study
  • Pragmatic motivations
  • Legal and constitutional motivations
  • Altruistic motivations
  • Anti-establishment motivations
  • Anti-police motivations
  • Anti-prosecutor motivations
  • Anti-judge and anti-corrections motivations
  • Public defender motivations.