Law and Poverty
Law and Poverty

Author: Frank Munger

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2017-11-28

Total Pages: 586

ISBN-13: 1351154184

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Socio-legal research on the legal experiences of the poor reflects an understanding of the close connection between economic inequality and law. The first two parts of this volume illustrate general analytical approaches to law and poverty. The remaining parts include essays which examine more specific issues such as race and gender, access to law, legal consciousness and social change. Research on the relationships between poverty, inequality and governance still leaves many questions unanswered but the work presented here reflects the important contribution that sociolegal research makes to the ongoing debate.

Criminal Justice in a Metropolitan Court
Criminal Justice in a Metropolitan Court

Author: Harry I. Subin

Publisher:

Published: 1966

Total Pages: 242

ISBN-13:

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"The U.S. Branch and Criminal Jury Court of the Court of General Sessions occupy key positions in the criminal court system of the District of Columbia. Nearly 90 percent of all adult defendants charged with felonies or serious misdemeanors enter the judicial system through the U.S. Branch, and a large proportion of these cases are ultimately disposed of either there or in the Jury Court. In the past these courts have received relatively little public attention, and no detailed analysis of their operations, problems, and needs has been made. This study is an initial attempt to fill that gap. It is not an analysis of the entire system, but deals only with those aspects which touch the work of the two branches under study"--Page 1.

(Dis)Entitling the Poor
(Dis)Entitling the Poor

Author: Elizabeth Bussiere

Publisher: Penn State Press

Published: 2010-11-01

Total Pages: 226

ISBN-13: 9780271038872

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Although focused on the Warren Court, the book explores Western political thought from the seventeenth through late twentieth centuries, draws on American social history from the Age of Jackson through the civil rights era of the 1960s, and utilizes current analytic methods, particularly the "new institutionalism."

The Defendant's Rights Today
The Defendant's Rights Today

Author: David Fellman

Publisher: Univ of Wisconsin Press

Published: 1978-04-15

Total Pages: 468

ISBN-13: 9780299072049

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With this comprehensive study, written in lay language, David Fellman provides an up-to-date analysis of the rights of the accused, certain to be welcomed by political scientists, students of public law, and all with an interest in due process of law. Since Fellman's 1958 book, The Defendant's Rights, substantial changes in the criminal justice system have occured. The past few decades before the publication of The Defendant's Rights Today have been witness to a striking expansion of the central concept of due process of law as it relates to criminal justice. The subject of defendants' rights is broad and complex. Fellman here explores its underlying concepts, bringing together a comprehensive discussion of the effects of the criminal justice system on the accused from arrest, through trial, to post-conviction remedies.