Texas People's Court - The Fascinating World of the Justice of the Peace (Hardcover)

From 1983 to 1987, author Mark Dunn worked as a court clerk for a justice of the peace in Travis County, Texas, where, he says, "I learned more about human nature . . . than I could have learned in any other job I might have taken up as a bushy-tailed kid from Tennessee." Based on interviews with 200 justices of the peace from all parts of Texas, Texas People's Court promises to take readers on a tour of what it means to be a Texas justice of the peace: an experience that is by turns hilarious, sobering, heart-wrenching, and, from one end to the other, fascinating.Here in the Texas justice court, wrongs can be righted and lives changed in profound ways. A priceless family necklace might finally be restored to the rightful owner; an occupational driver's license fortuitously granted. A death inquest may become an opportunity for family reflection and valediction, with the attending judge as sympathetic witness. In each of its chapters, Texas People's Court takes up a different aspect, duty, or area of thought related to the profession of justice of the peace taken from conversations with JPs throughout the state of Texas-from those who serve in its most populous municipalities to rural county JPs-putting a human face on the responsibilities, attitudes, and perspectives that motivate their judgments. The result is a thoroughly entertaining, sympathetic view of what Dunn calls "the day-to-day observation of human conflict in microcosm."

General

Imprint:	Texas A & M University Press
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	The Texas Experience, Books made possible by Sarah '84 and Mark '77 Philpy
Release date:	March 2022
Authors:	Mark Dunn
Dimensions:	229 x 152 x 25mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	310
ISBN-13:	978-1-62349-978-5
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Biography & autobiography > General Books > Humanities > History > American history > General Books > Law > Laws of other jurisdictions & general law > Courts & procedure > General Books > History > American history > General Books > Biography > General
LSN:	1-62349-978-X
Barcode:	9781623499785

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