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The final volume of a trilogy (begun with The Contours of Justice
and The Tenor of Justice) based on a large-scale, complex study of
nine criminal courts. Explains how criminal court policies reflect
tensions or harmony among judges on the bench, and identifies and
illustrates patterns of dominance and conflict within courthouse
communities.
The Contours of Justice provides a framework for describing and
understanding criminal courts throughout the United States by
depicting the functions of criminal courts in nine middle-sized
counties in three states. It integrates concepts from each of the
three traditional theoretical approaches to court analysis: the
individual, organizational, and environmental approaches. The
authors approach the courts as communities composed of judges,
prosecutors, and defense attorneys rather than as "legal
institutions" applying formal law. They analyze the differences in
culture, technology, physical setting, the customary ways of
arriving at guilty pleas, as well as other aspects of the courts.
The authors also incorporate information about the political and
economic characteristics of the communities that the courts serve,
along with the basic functions of scheduling cases and assigning
personnel to cases. The portraits of the nine courts present the
day-to-day activities of judges, prosecutors, and defense attorneys
that lead to the decisions about the fates of the defendants
brought to the courts. This comparison not only provides a vivid
picture of actual court function, but allows an assessment of the
process that leads to ideas for reform.
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