The Craft of Justice : : Politics and Work in Criminal Court Communities / / Roy B. Flemming, Peter F. Nardulli, James Eisenstein.
The final volume of a trilogy (begun with The Contours of Justice and The Tenor of Justice) based on a large-scale, complex study of nine criminal courts. Explains how criminal court policies reflect tensions or harmony among judges on the bench, and identifies and illustrates patterns of dominance...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Pennsylvania Press Package Archive 1898-1999 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2016] ©1993 |
| Year of Publication: | 2016 |
| Edition: | Reprint 2016 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Law in Social Context
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (232 p.) :; 17 illus. |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: Craft and Communities
- Part I: The Craft of Prosecution
- 1. The Political Craft of Chief Prosecutors
- 2. Leading Prosecutor Offices and the Courtroom Craft of Assistant Prosecutors
- Part II: The Craft of Judging
- 3. Bench Politics: The Social Organization of Courts and Their Policies
- 4. Bench Craft: Moving Cases, Policing Pleas, Doing Justice
- Part III: The Craft of Defense
- 5. Defensive Craft: Why Getting Along Is (Mostly) Going Along
- 6. Defending in Courtrooms: Making the "Right" Moves
- Conclusions
- Appendix A: Characteristics of the Nine Research Sites and the Interviews
- Appendix B: Publications Based on the Nine-Court Project
- Index
- Backmatter