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American Criminal Courts - Legal Process and Social Context (Hardcover, New)
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American Criminal Courts - Legal Process and Social Context (Hardcover, New)
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American Criminal Courts: Legal Process and Social Context is an
introductory-level text that offers a comprehensive study of the
legal processes that guide criminal courts and the social contexts
that introduce variations in the activities of actors inside and
outside the court. Specifically the text focuses upon: Legal
Processes. U.S. criminal courts are constrained by several legal
processes and organizational structures that determine how the
courts operate and how laws are applied. This book explores how
democratic processes develop the criminal law in the United States,
the documents that define law (federal and state constitutions,
legal codes, administrative policies), the organizational structure
of courts at the federal and state levels, the overlapping
authority of the appeals process, and the effect of legal processes
such as precedent, jurisdiction, and the underlying legal
philosophies of various types of courts. Although most texts on
criminal courts do a credible job of describing legal processes,
this text looks more deeply into the origins of criminal law,
historic turning points in the criminal law, conditions that affect
the decision-making of criminal justice practitioners, and the
contentious political process that affects how criminal laws are
considered. Social Contexts. The criminal courts are staffed by
people who represent different perspectives, occupational
pressures, and organizational goals. The text includes chapters on
actors in the traditional courtroom workgroup (judges, prosecutors,
and defense attorneys), as well as those outside the court who seek
to influence it, including advocacy groups, media, and politicians.
It is the interplay between the court legal processes and the
social actors in the courtroom that makes the application of the
criminal laws so fascinating. By focusing on the tension between
the law (legal processes) and the actors inside and outside the
courts system (social contexts), this text demonstrates how the
courts are a product of "law in action," and it presents the course
content in a way that enables students to understand not only the
"how" of the U.S. criminal court system but also the "why."
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