American criminal courts : legal process and social context /
Welch, Casey.
Fuller, John R.
Amsterdam ; London : Anderson Publishing, Elsevier,
c2014.
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Principles and decision-making in U.S. criminal courts -- Part 1. Formal Social Control -- Social control, comparative courts, and the development of the U.S. judicial system -- The structure of federal and state courts -- Criminal law, crime, and the criminal court process -- Part 2. Negotiating Discretion, Making Decisions -- The reality of legal action: principles -- Case assessment, case attrition, and decision to charge -- Part 3. Decision-Making in the Pretrial and Trial Process -- The pretrial process -- The prosecutor and the exertion of state power -- The defense and constraint on state power -- The criminal trial process: judges, bench trials, jury deliberation, and sentencing -- Part 4. Specialized Courts -- The right to appeal and the appellate process -- Juvenile courts -- Specialized courts -- Part 5. Frontiers of Justice -- Fuzzy justice: alternatives to court -- Courts in the future.
Criminal courts
Criminal justice, Administration of