America's courts and the criminal justice system /

Neubauer, David W.

America's courts and the criminal justice system / David W. Neubauer - Second Edition - California : Brooks/Cole Publishing Company, c1984 - xxi, 411 pages ; 24 cm.

Includes index.

Part 1. The legal system -- Part 2. The legal actors -- Part 3. Is the defendant guilty? -- Part 4. Setting the penalty -- Part 5. What is wrong here?.

This book is written for undergraduate courses that deal with America's criminal courts. That these courses are taught in departments as varied as criminal justice or police science, political science, sociology, psychology, and social welfare highlights not only the pivotal role of the criminal courts.

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CRIMINAL COURTS -- UNITED STATES

KF 9619 .N48 1984