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9780761814061

The Contours of Justice Communities and Their Courts

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    9780761814061

  • ISBN10:

    076181406X

  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 1999-06-24
  • Publisher: UPA

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This text describes the workings of criminal courts in nine middle-sized counties. The authors examine the technology used to schedule and assign work, local legal culture, and customary ways of disposing of cases.

Table of Contents

PART ONE Metaphors for Understanding Courts: Law vs. Community 1(54)
Approaches to Crime and Criminal Courts
3(19)
Introduction
3(2)
The Traditional ``Legal'' Metaphor
5(2)
Criminal Courts in the United States
7(5)
Similarities and Differences in American Criminal Courts
12(3)
The Approach Guiding the Empirical Research
15(1)
Design of the Research: What Was Studied, and How?
15(6)
Summary
21(1)
The Criminal Court Community
22(33)
Origins of the Metaphor: Courts as Communities
22(1)
The Notion of Community
23(3)
County Legal Culture and Court Communities
26(7)
Definition of County Legal Culture
27(1)
Self-Awareness as an Attribute of County Legal Culture
28(1)
Common Beliefs About Interpersonal Relations
29(1)
Shared Attitudes About How Cases Are Processed
30(2)
Special Language as an Aspect of Culture
32(1)
Culture and a Sense of Tradition
33(1)
Inhabitants of Court Communities
33(2)
Interdependencies in Court Communities
35(1)
Structure of Status and Power
36(4)
Emotional Undercurrents and Grapevines
40(4)
Sponsoring Organizations in Court Communities
44(1)
Technology in Court Communities
45(3)
Spatial Relations and Geography
48(1)
Links to Other Communities
49(3)
Proximate Causes of Case Outcomes
52(1)
Summary
53(2)
PART TWO Criminal Court Communities in Nine Middle-Sized Courts 55(202)
Introduction to Erie County: People, Crime, and Defendants
57(17)
A Sketch of Erie County
57(3)
Crime in Erie County
60(6)
Arrests in Erie County
66(1)
From Arrest to Court: Screening Defendants
67(3)
Erie's Cases and Defendants
70(2)
Summary
72(2)
The Criminal Court Community In Erie
74(31)
Size, Composition, and Communication in the Court Community
74(4)
Geography of Erie's Criminal Court Community
78(1)
The Judges
79(6)
Prosecutor's Office
85(6)
Public Defender's Office
91(5)
Erie's Private Defense Bar
96(1)
Structure of Attitudes
97(1)
Social and Working Relationships in Erie's Court Community
97(4)
Age and Generations in Erie's Court Community
101(1)
Structure of Influence
102(1)
Summary
103(2)
Technology, Case Flow, and Defendant Outcomes in Erie
105(33)
The Erie Court Community's Technology
105(3)
Influence of Case-Scheduling Techniques
108(6)
Rhythm of Work
108(2)
Unpredictability
110(1)
Theory and Practice of Judge-Shopping
111(3)
How Erie's Court Community Disposed of Cases
114(4)
Initial Charges and Bail Outcomes
115(3)
How and When Defendants' Cases Ended
118(1)
The Guilty-Plea Process
118(7)
Severity of Erie's Sentences
125(6)
Going Rates, Trial Penalties, and Guilty Pleas
131(1)
Effects of State-Level Factors
132(4)
Summary
136(2)
Kalamazoo's Criminal Court
138(38)
Introduction
138(1)
State-Level Factors
138(3)
The Court's Environment and Work
141(4)
General Characteristics
141(1)
Crime in Kalamazoo
142(1)
Cases and Defendants
143(2)
Composition of the Court Community
145(14)
The Defense Bar
145(3)
Kalamazoo's Judges
148(2)
Prosecutor's Office
150(7)
Geography, Influence, and Relationships in the Court Community
157(2)
The Court Community's Technology
159(2)
Disposition of Cases in Kalamazoo
161(12)
Kalamazoo's Guilty-Plea System
164(4)
Severity of Sentences
168(5)
Summary
173(3)
Criminal Courts and Communities in Du Page County
176(26)
Introduction
176(2)
Crime and Defendants in Du Page
178(5)
The Court Community in Du Page
183(9)
Prosecutor's Office
183(3)
The Defense Bar
186(2)
Du Page's Judges
188(2)
Relationships in the Court Community
190(2)
Case Outcomes
192(6)
Illinois Effects
198(1)
Summary
199(3)
Court Communities in Nine Counties
202(26)
County Legal Culture
202(2)
Inhabitants of Court Communities
204(6)
Size and Familiarity
204(1)
Demographics and Social Interaction
205(3)
Attitudes of Community Members
208(2)
Structure of Status and Power
210(2)
Emotional Undercurrents and Grapevines
212(1)
Sponsoring Organizations
213(4)
The Judges
214(1)
Prosecutor Offices and Bureaucratic Controls
214(2)
Judicial Policies, the Defense Bar, and Public Defenders' Practices
216(1)
Technologies of Criminal Court Communities
217(6)
Spatial Relations and Geography
223(1)
Links to Other Communities
223(4)
Characteristics Associated with States
224(2)
County Legal Cultures
226(1)
Summary
227(1)
Case Outcomes in Nine Middle-Sized Courts
228(29)
Introduction
228(1)
Cases and Defendants in the Nine Counties
229(2)
Contours of Case Outcomes
231(1)
Differences in Guilty-Plea Processes
232(5)
Reductions in Charges and Count Drops
234(3)
Sentence Agreements and Plea Routing
237(1)
Distribution of Sentences
237(6)
The Pace of Justice
243(1)
Concessions and Consensus in the Guilty-Plea System
243(5)
Explanations of the Guilty-Plea Process and Their Limits
248(7)
Going Rates and Guilty Pleas
250(3)
Why Guilty-Plea Systems Differ
253(1)
Pace of Justice and Contextual Influences
254(1)
Summary
255(2)
PART THREE Contours of Justice 257(50)
Contours of Justice: Criminal Courts in the United States
259(32)
Introduction
259(1)
Concept of Size in Social and Political Life
260(2)
Criminal Courts in Small Jurisdictions
262(11)
Brief Sketch of a Very Small Criminal Court
263(2)
Characteristics Directly Attributable to Smallness
265(1)
Characteristics Flowing from Similarities in Small Jurisdictions
265(6)
Case Outcomes and the Guilty-Plea Process
271(2)
Criminal Courts in Large Jurisdictions
273(10)
Characteristics Directly Attributable to Largeness
274(4)
Characteristics Flowing from Similarities in Large Jurisdictions
278(2)
Contours of Justice in Large Jurisdictions
280(3)
Size and Court Communities: A Summary
283(1)
Other Features of Criminal Court Communities
284(6)
Correlates of Conflict
284(3)
Structural Impediments to Vigorous Defense of Poor Defendants
287(3)
Conclusion
290(1)
Reform and the Contours of Justice
291(16)
Introduction
291(3)
Lessons for Reform
294(10)
Do Not Expect Too Much
294(1)
The More Radical a Proposed Change the Less Likely Is Its Adoption
294(1)
More Modest Changes from Above Face Obstacles to Implementation
295(3)
Reforms from Above Have Widely Varying Results from Jurisdiction to Jurisdiction
298(1)
Many Means of Reforming from Above Lie Unused
299(1)
Not All Change Is ``Reform''
300(2)
Reforms from Within Court Communities Face Significant Obstacles
302(2)
Concluding Thoughts
304(3)
Appendix 307(4)
Index 311

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