COURT REFORM ON TRIAL is a recognized study of innovation in the process of criminal justice, and why it so often fails-despite the best intentions of judges, administrators, and reformers. The arc of innovation to disappointment is analyzed through such programs as bail reform, pretrial diversion, speedy trials, and determinate sentencing. A much-maligned system of plea bargaining shifts power to prosecutors away from judges, and formal trials recede in importance-but is that really the problem? Perhaps failure lies in unrealistic expectations, splintered systems and decisionmaking, waning...
COURT REFORM ON TRIAL is a recognized study of innovation in the process of criminal justice, and why it so often fails-despite the best intentions of...
A classic study in law and society is now readily available to scholars, researchers, and others in the field of criminal justice, due process, policing, and administrative procedure. It adds a new Preface by the author and a new Foreword by Berkeley law professor Malcolm M. Feeley. As the author reflects: I think it was my first day in the field that the police liaison to the district attorney's probation revocation program exclaimed, "Forget rights Forget right to jury Forget right to bail There are no rights " As Malcolm Feeley says in his Foreword, what I "discovered" over the...
A classic study in law and society is now readily available to scholars, researchers, and others in the field of criminal justice, due process, pol...
Foundational and renowned study of how politicians and others use crime rates -- and most of all the public perception of street crime, whether or not it is accurate -- for their own purposes. Dr. Scheingold also provides a theoretical and historical basis for his views. The follow-up to the landmark The Politics of Rights, this book is both supported in research and accessible and interesting to readers everywhere. Features a new Foreword by Berkeley law professor Malcolm M. Feeley. A work that is both "timely and timeless," writes Feeley, it "is important for what it says -- and how it says...
Foundational and renowned study of how politicians and others use crime rates -- and most of all the public perception of street crime, whether or not...
