TY - BOOK AU - Neubauer, David W. TI - America's courts and the criminal justice system SN - 534029558 AV - KF 9619 .N48 1984 PY - 1984/// CY - California PB - Brooks/Cole Publishing Company KW - CRIMINAL COURTS -- UNITED STATES N1 - 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? N2 - 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 ER -