Courts: A Text/Reader

2. Auflage 2012
ISBN: 978-1-4129-9718-8
Verlag: SAGE PUBN

Buch, Englisch, 664 Seiten, Format (B × H): 185 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 998 g

Reihe: Sage Text/Reader Series in Cri

Courts: A Text/Reader provides the best of both worlds- authored text sections with carefully selected accompanying readings that illustrate the questions and controversies legal scholars and court researchers are investigating in the 21st century. The articles, from leading journals in criminology and criminal justice, reflect both classic studies of the criminal court system and state-of-the-art research, and often have a policy perspective that makes them more applied, less theoretical, and more interesting to both undergraduate and graduate students.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Spohn, Cassia

Hemmens, Craig T.

Spohn, Cassia C.

Fachgebiete

• Rechtswissenschaften Ausländisches Recht Common Law (UK, USA, Australien u.a.)
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Regierungspolitik Innen-, Bildungs- und Bevölkerungspolitik
• Rechtswissenschaften Recht, Rechtswissenschaft Allgemein Rechtspolitik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Foreword
Acknowledgments
Preface
Section I. Introduction: Courts and Case Processing
Section II. Historical and Contemporary Perspectives on Courts
How to Read a Research Article
Readings
1. The Process Is the Punishment: Handling Cases in a Lower Criminal Court, by Malcolm M. Feeley
2. The Honest Politician?s Guide to Juvenile Justice in the Twenty-First Century, by Barry C. Feld
3. The Rehnquist Court and Criminal Justice: An Empirical Assessment, by Christopher E. Smith
4. Wrongful Conviction: Perceptions of Criminal Justice Professionals Regarding the Frequency of Wrongful Conviction and the Extent of System Errors, by Robert J. Ramsey and James Frank
Section III. Prosecutors and Defense Attorneys
Readings
5. Violated Trust: Conceptualizing Prosecutorial Misconduct, by Heather Schoenfeld
6. Prosecutorial Justifications for Sexual Assault Case Rejection: Guarding the ?Gateway to Justice? by Cassia Spohn, Dawn Beichner, and Erika Davis-Frenzel
7. Prosecutorial Discretion in Seeking Death: An Analysis of Racial Disparity in the Pretrial Stages of Case Processing in a Midwestern County, by Jon Sorensen and Donald H. Wallace
8. Representing the Accused: Professional Values and Professional Choices of Small-Town Lawyers, by Alissa Pollitz Worden
9. Indigent Defenders Get the Job Done and Done Well, by Roger A. Hanson and Brian J. Ostrom
Section IV. Judges and Jurors
Readings
10. Judges and the Politics of Death: Deciding Between the Bill of Rights and the Next Election in Capital Cases, by Stephen B. Bright and Patrick J. Keenan
11. Reflections on a Rape Trial: The Role of Rape Myths and Jury Selection in the Outcome of a Trial, by Judy Shepherd
12. Racially Based Jury Nullification: Black Power in the Criminal Justice System, by Paul Butler
Section V. Pretrial Proceedings
Readings
13. The Relationship Between Type of Attorney and Bail Amount Set for Hispanic Defendants, by K.B. Turner and James B. Johnson
14. The Impact of Race, Gender, and Age on the Pretrial Decision, by Tina L. Freiburger and Carly M. Hilinski
15. Criminal Prosecution of Domestic Violence Offenses: An Investigation of Factors Predictive of Court Outcomes, by Kris Henning and Lynette Feder
Section VI. Plea Bargaining and Trial Dynamics
Readings
16. Prosecutorial Discretion and Plea Bargaining in the United States, France, Germany, and Italy: A Comparative Perspective, by Yue Ma
17. Court Caseloads, Plea Bargains, and Criminal Sanctions: The Effects of Section 17 P.C. in California, by James W. Meeker and Henry N. Pontell
18. Variation in Trial Penalties Among Serious Violent Offenses, by Jeffery T. Ulmer and Mindy S. Bradley
19. The Entertainment Value of a Trial: How Media Access to the Courtroom Is Changing the American Judicial Process, by Jeffrey S. Johnson
Section VII. Sentencing
Readings
20. Is Preferential Treatment of Female Offenders a Thing of the Past? A Multisite Study of Gender, Race, and Imprisonment, by Cassia Spohn and Dawn Beichner
21. The Interactive Effects of Victim Race and Gender on Death Sentence Disparity Findings, by Marian R. Williams and Jefferson E. Holcomb
22. The Juvenile Penalty: A Comparison of Juvenile and Young Adult Sentencing Outcomes in Criminal Court, by Megan C. Kurlychek and Brian D. Johnson
Section VIII. Beyond Conviction and Sentencing
Readings
23. The Federal Habeas Corpus Process: Unraveling the Issues, by Robert D. Pursley
24. Criminal Justice System Reform and Wrongful Conviction: A Research Agenda, by Marvin Zalman
Section IX. Specialized Courts and Other Trends in Adjudication
Readings
25. The Baltimore City Drug Treatment Court: One-Year Results From a Randomized Study, by Denise C. Gottfredson and M. Lyn Exum
26. Combating Domestic Violence: Findings From an Evaluation of a Local Domestic Violence Court, by Angela R. Gover, John M. MacDonald, and Geoffrey P. Alpert
27. Teen Court Refe

Über Autor(innen)

Spohn, Cassia C.
Cassia Spohn received her PhD in political science from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln in 1978. Prior to joining the faculty at Arizona State University, she was the Kayser Professor of Criminal Justice at the University of Nebraska at Omaha, where she served as Director of Graduate Studies for 12 years and as Department Chair for one year. Dr. Spohn is the author of How Do Judges Decide? Second Edition (SAGE, (c)2009), and co-author of Criminal Courts (SAGE, A(c)2010). She also is co-author of two books: The Color of Justice: Race, Ethnicity, and Crime in America (Cengage, A(c)2007) and Rape Law Reform: A Grassroots Movement and Its Impact (Springer, A(c)1992). She has published more than 75 articles on topics such as the effects of race/ethnicity and gender on sentencing decisions, sentencing of drug offenders, prosecutors' charging decisions in sexual assault cases, and the deterrent effect of imprisonment. She is currently working on a project investigating case attrition and case clearances in sexual assaults reported to the Los Angeles Police Department and the Los Angeles Sheriff's Department.

Hemmens, Craig T.
Craig Hemmens holds a J.D. from North Carolina Central University School of Law and a Ph.D. in Criminal Justice from Sam Houston State University. He is Department Head and Professor in the Department of Criminology & Criminal Justice at Missouri State University. In addition to being the series editor for SAGE's Text/Reader series in Criminology/Criminal Justice, Professor Hemmens has published several books, including Law, Justice and Society (Oxford University Press, (c)2009), Legal Guide for Police (Anderson, A(c)2011) and an Introduction to Criminal Evidence (Oxford University Press, A(c)2009). He has been nominated for several teaching awards, and is currently serving as the first Vice President of the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences.

Craig Hemmens holds a J.D. from North Carolina Central University School of Law and a Ph.D. in Criminal Justice from Sam Houston State University. He is Department Head and Professor in the Department of Criminology & Criminal Justice at Missouri State University. In addition to being the series editor for SAGE's Text/Reader series in Criminology/Criminal Justice, Professor Hemmens has published several books, including Law, Justice and Society (Oxford University Press, (c)2009), Legal Guide for Police (Anderson, A(c)2011) and an Introduction to Criminal Evidence (Oxford University Press, A(c)2009). He has been nominated for several teaching awards, and is currently serving as the first Vice President of the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences.

Cassia Spohn received her PhD in political science from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln in 1978. Prior to joining the faculty at Arizona State University, she was the Kayser Professor of Criminal Justice at the University of Nebraska at Omaha, where she served as Director of Graduate Studies for 12 years and as Department Chair for one year. Dr. Spohn is the author of How Do Judges Decide? Second Edition (SAGE, (c)2009), and co-author of Criminal Courts (SAGE, A(c)2010). She also is co-author of two books: The Color of Justice: Race, Ethnicity, and Crime in America (Cengage, A(c)2007) and Rape Law Reform: A Grassroots Movement and Its Impact (Springer, A(c)1992). She has published more than 75 articles on topics such as the effects of race/ethnicity and gender on sentencing decisions, sentencing of drug offenders, prosecutors' charging decisions in sexual assault cases, and the deterrent effect of imprisonment. She is currently working on a project investigating case attrition and case clearances in sexual assaults reported to the Los Angeles Police Department and the Los Angeles Sheriff's Department.