America's Courts and the Criminal Justice System
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Open this book and step into America's court system! What's it like to be a judge? A prosecutor? A defense attorney? With Neubauer's best-selling book, you'll find out! This fascinating and well-researched text gives you the sense of being in the courthouse-of what it is like to work in and be a part of the system. This concept of the courthouse "players" illustrates each person's important role in bringing a case through the court process. Throughout the text, Neubauer highlights not only the pivotal role Booknews The new edition of a textbook geared toward undergraduates that looks at the institutions and processes of the American criminal judicial system. After devoting separate chapters to the various actors in the courtroom, the latter half of the text looks at the criminal court process from arrest and arraignment to appeals in eight separate chapters. A final chapter looks at the juvenile court system. The CD-ROM contains interactive programs that cast the user as the judge in six different cases, providing the case files, lawyer and witness testimony, and the relevant statutes. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
Ch. 1The Criminal Courts in Controversy1Ch. 2Law and Crime17Ch. 3Finding the Courthouse: The Confusing Structure of American Courts39Ch. 4The Dynamics of Courthouse Justice65Ch. 5The Prosecutor79Ch. 6Defense Attorneys97Ch. 7Judges119Ch. 8Defendants, Victims, and Witnesses138Ch. 9After the Arrest: Case Attrition155Ch. 10Freedom For Sale177Ch. 11Preparing For Trial200Ch. 12Negotiated Justice and the Plea of Guilty216Ch. 13Trial240Ch. 14Sentencing: The Legal Basis of Judicial Discretion269Ch. 15Choosing Between Prison and Probation297Ch. 16The Appellate Process330Ch. 17The Lower Courts: Rapid, Rough Justice355Ch. 18Administering the Courts374Epilogue: Courts, Crime, and Political Rhetoric391Glossary405Index417
