Justice without trial
Subtitle: law enforcement in democratic society
By: Jerome H. Skolnick
Edition: Fourth edition.
Series: Classics of law & society series; Classics of law & society series
Publisher: Quid Pro Books
Published: 2011
Place of publication: New Orleans, Louisiana
Language: eng
Number of pages: 285
ISBN-13: 9781610278294; 9781610270649
Copyright date: 2011
Subjects: Administration of Criminal justice; Police; Law enforcement; Justice pénale; Administration; Lois; Application; Polizei; Strafverfolgung; Strafrecht; Straffprocess; Poliser
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Foreword : fifty years later / Candace McCoy; title: Democratic order and the rule of law; title: The setting, method, and development of the research; title: A sketch of the police officer's "working personality"; title: Operational environment and police discretion; title: The confrontation of the suspect; title: The informer system; title: The narcotics enforcement pattern; title: The clearance rate and the penalty structure; title: Police attitudes toward criminal law; title: Conventional morality, judicial control, and police conduct; title: The working police officer, police "professionalism," and the rule of law; title: Epilogue A. Contemporary law enforcement in a democratic society; title: Epilogue B. The challenge of crime in the 1990s.