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