Test Bank for Courts A Text/Reader 3rd Edition Spohn

Test Bank for Courts A Text/Reader 3rd Edition Spohn

Test Bank for Courts A Text/Reader, 3rd Edition, Cassia Spohn, Craig Hemmens, Wesley S. McCann, ISBN: 9781544307947

Table of Contents

SECTION I. Introduction: Courts and Case Processing
READING 1. The Process Is the Punishment
READING 2. Wrongful Conviction: Perceptions of Criminal Justice Professionals Regarding the Frequency of Wrongful Conviction and the Extent of System Errors

SECTION II. Historical and Contemporary Perspectives on Law and the Courts What Is Law?
READING 3. Ideological Divisiveness in Criminal Procedure Cases: Measuring Variability in U.S. Supreme Court Outcomes
READING 4. The Racial Politics of Due Process Protection: Does Partisanship or Racial Composition Influence State-Level Adoption of Recorded Interrogation Policies?

SECTION III. Prosecutors and Defense Attorneys The Adversarial System
READING 5. Violated Trust: Conceptualizing Prosecutorial Misconduct
READING 6. Prosecuting Intimate Partner Sexual Assault: Legal and Extra-Legal Factors That Influence Charging Decisions

SECTION IV. Judges and Jurors Judges and Jurors: Fact Finding and Applying the Law
READING 7. Representation on the Courts? The Effects of Trial Judges’ Sex and Race
READING 8. Jury Nullification: Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell?

SECTION V. Pretrial and Trial Processes The Pretrial Process
READING 9. The Impact of Race, Gender, and Age on the Pretrial Decision
READING 10. Confession Evidence: Commonsense Myths and Misconceptions

SECTION VI. Plea Bargaining and Trial Dynamics Plea Bargaining
READING 11. Justice Served? Perceptions of Plea Bargaining Involving a Sexual Assault in Child and Adult Females
READING 12. Is a Plea Really a Bargain? An Analysis of Plea and Trial Dispositions in New York City

SECTION VII. Sentencing The Goals of Sentencing
READING 13. Do the Drugs, Do the Time? The Effect of Drug Abuse on Sentences
READING 14. Sentencing Transferred Juveniles in the Adult Criminal Court: The Direct and Interactive Effects of Race and Ethnicity

SECTION VIII. The Appellate Process The Appellate Courts
READING 15. Merciful Justice: Lessons From 50 Years of New York Death Penalty Commutations
READING 16. Preventing Wrongful Convictions: An Analysis of State Investigation Reforms

SECTION IX. Specialized Courts and Other Trends in Adjudication Problem-Solving Courts
READING 17. An Integrated Theory of Specialized Court Programs: Using Procedural Justice and Therapeutic Jurisprudence to Promote Offender Compliance and Rehabilitation
READING 18. Domestic Violence Courts: A Multisite Test of Whether and How They Change Offender Outcomes