America's courts and the criminal justice system
By: David W. Neubauer
Publisher: Recording for the Blind & Dyslexic
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Princeton, N.J
Language: eng
Format: [sound recording] /
ISBN-13: 9780495095408
Subjects: Administration of Criminal justice; Criminal courts
Description: [This book] examines the history, traditions, and philosophy underlying our system of justice as it is played out in the criminal court.... This book is written for undergraduate courses that deal with America's criminal courts. -Pref.
Notes: Originally published: Belmont, CA : Thomson/Wadsworth, c2008. 9th ed.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 469-493).

Distribution is restricted to RFB & D members who have a documented print disability such as a visual impairment, learning disability or other physical disability.
Table of contents: title: Courts, crime, and controversy; title: Legal system: Law and crime; Federal courts; State courts; title: Legal actors: Dynamics of courthouse justice; Prosecutors; Defense attorneys; Judges; Defendants and victims; title: Processing the accused: Arrest to arraignment; Bail; Disclosing and suppressing evidence; Negotiated justice and the plea of guilty; Trials and juries; title: Sentencing the guilty: Sentencing options; Sentencing decisions; title: Appellate, lower, and juvenile courts: Appellate courts; Lower courts; Juvenile courts; title: Epilogue: Courts, crime, and justice; title: Appendix: Criminal court landmarks; title: Glossary.