Public defenders
Subtitle: pragmatic and political motivations to represent the indigent
By: Michael Scott Weiss.
Series: Criminal justice : recent scholarship; Criminal justice (LFB Scholarly Publishing LLC)
Publisher: LFB Scholarly Pub.
Published: 2005
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 303
Subjects: Public defenders -- United States -- Attitudes; Legal assistance to the poor -- United States; Right to counsel -- United States
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 287-293) and index.
Table of contents: title: A study of public defender motivations; title: Defense attorneys in the criminal courts; title: Challenges of public defense; title: A qualitative, semi-structured interview study; title: Pragmatic motivations; title: Legal and constitutional motivations; title: Altruistic motivations; title: Anti-establishment motivations : critical motivations, part I; title: Anti-police motivations : critical motivations, part II; title: Anti-prosecutor motivations : critical motivations, part III; title: Anti-judge and anti-corrections motivations : critical motivations, part IV; title: Public defender motivations : discussion and implications.