Felony Justice
An Organizational Analysis of Criminal Courts
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11100465 |
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| Authors | Wolf Heydebrand (corresponding author), J P Eisenstein (0000-0001-5460-0464), Herbert Jacob |
| Year | 1981 |
| Volume | 10 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 229 |
| Publication date | 1981-03-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | REVIEW |
| Review of | Felony justice: An Organizational Analysis of Criminal Courts, James Eisenstein, 1991 |
| Venue | Contemporary Sociology A Journal of Reviews (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0094-3061 • E-ISSN: 1939-8638 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.2307/2066877 |
| OpenAlex | W2008656711 |
| Language | EN |
In a break with prior research, this book compares the disposition of 4500 felony defendants' cases in Baltimore, Chicago and Detroit in 1972, examining the role of judge, prosecutors and defense attorneys by relying on observation and the interview process. Descriptions of the factors shaping the outcomes of preliminary hearings, courtroom dispositions, and sentences rely on multivariate analysis of case and defendant variables drawn from court and prosecutor files. It uses the organizational approach to analyze and interpret the results, providing a model widely used and cited for broader studies. Originally published in 1977 by Little, Brown and Company
Business · Criminal justice · Criminology · Organizational analysis · Organizational commitment · Organizational justice · Political science · Public relations · Sociology · Jury Decision Making Processes · Law · Law, Economics, and Judicial Systems · Legal Education and Practice Innovations
What Teams Do
Understanding guilty pleas through the lens of social science
Authoritarian legality and informal practices
Sentencing Recommendations by Probation Officers and Judges
New Directions in Intersections, Inequality, and Sentencing
Heightened Sensitivity to Conflict on the Part of Female Criminal Defenders
Rethinking Judicial Paternalism
Court Context and Discrimination
Sentencing, Trends, and Disparities
Interactions and Identities in UK Asylum Appeals
Criminal Prosecutions
Minority Youths and Juvenile Justice
Why is There So Little Criminal Justice Theory? Neglected Macro- and Micro-Level Links between Organization and Power
Social context and racial disparities in punishment decisions
Sentencing disparity and departures from guidelines
Location, location, location
Citizens' Perceptions of Distributive and Procedural Injustice During Traffic Stops with Police
Location and Sentencing
Extending a Geographical Perspective to the Study of Jurisdictional Consistency in Sentencing Outcomes
Prosecutor Decision-Making Following Juvenile Life Without Parole Sentencing Reform
Criminal defense work in a sample of arrest hearings in three states of Mexico
What Exactly Is the Bargain? The Sensitivity of Plea Discount Estimates
Perpetual Incarceration
Testing an Expanded Model of Deterrence Applied to Guilty Plea Decision Making
Toward a method for evaluating court actor influences on plea negotiations
The Focal Concerns of Stalking Victims
Between Paternalism and a Gender Perspective
The Impact of the Defense Attorney on Plea Decision-Making
Tackling the Issue of Limited Dialogue and Strengthening Collaboration Among Court Actors for Improving the Condition-Setting Process
Juvenile Probation Officer Decision-Making in a Reforming State
The Politics of Cultural Differences
Asylum Determination in Europe
Plea bargaining in Russia
Exploring the origin of sentencing disparities in the Crown Court
Structural bias in the sentencing of felony defendants
The Organization and Consequences of Social Pasts in Criminal Courts
Court Structure, Defense Attorney Use, and Juvenile Court Decisions
Prosecuting Adolescents in Criminal Courts
Rape Law Reform and Instrumental Change in Six Urban Jurisdictions
Judging the Best Interests of the Child
Mandatory Sentencing and Firearms Violence
Rule Departures and Making Law
Trial Judges' Participation in Plea Bargaining
The Structure of Discourse in Misdemeanor Plea Bargaining
Sentencing and State-Level Racial and Ethnic Contexts
Adjudication and Sentencing in A Misdemeanor Court
Continuity and Change in Patterns of Case Handling
Conflict and Compromise
State Politics and the Right to Counsel
The Routinization of Debt Collection
Plea Bargaining in Historical Perspective
(Un)anticipated Effects of Sentencing Reform on the Disparate Treatment of Defendants
Counties in Court
Symbol and Substance
Plea Bargaining Policy and State District Court Caseloads
Diverting and Abdicating Judicial Discretion
Race as a Determinant of Criminal Sentences
Does It Pay to Plead Guilty? Differential Sentencing and the Functioning of Criminal Courts
The Emergent Organization of Plea Bargaining
An Empirical Typology of American Metropolitan Juvenile Courts
The Power to Punish
Deportation Decisions
Restorative Justice and Earned Redemption
Recent Developments and New Directions in Sentencing Research
The Organizational Context of Criminal Sentencing
Conviction Odds in Chicago Homicide Cases
Being a Disadvantaged Criminal Defendant
Racist Torture and the Code of Silence
An Integration of Theories to Explain Judicial Discretion
Crime, Social Structure and Criminal Punishment
Cumulative Disadvantage in the American Criminal Justice System
The Impact of Remote Hearing Policies on Racial Equity in Criminal Case Outcomes During the Pandemic
Parental evidence of impact of policy on worst forms of child labour in rural and urban Ghana
Being Part of the “Home Team”
You Know Baseball? 3 Strikes”
Racial Disparity Under Sentencing Guidelines
Judges’ characteristics and sentencing in Hong Kong
Identification, Corroboration, and Charging
The Use of Case Studies in Law and Social Science Research
Sociolegal Approaches to the Study of Guilty Pleas and Prosecution
The Political Economy of Prosecution
Plea Bargaining as a Game
Banishing justice
The promise of behavioral economics for understanding decision‐making in the court
Mandatory sentencing guidelines
Fair Game or Foul Play
Accountable to what
Attributes of highly effective criminal defense negotiators
Plea bargaining
Reconceptualizing organizational change in the Comprehensive Gang Model
Victim/witness noncooperation
Predicting decisions rendered in criminal appeals
Fifty years post Gault
Juvenile justice reform and the courtroom workgroup
Judges, juries, and the decision to convict
Court clerks, court administrators, and judges
Nature and consequences of dismissals
Organizational determinants of police discretion
Drug overdose death rates and criminal sentencing of federal drug offenders in the United States
Deviation from sentencing guidelines
| Highly cited | No |
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