Commonsense Justice: Jurors’ Notions of the LawHarvard University Press, 2001 M04 16 - 400 páginas For the first time in our history, U.S. prisons house over a million inmates, enough to populate a city larger than San Francisco. Building prisons is the new growth industry, as the American public reacts to a perceived increase in violence and politicians take a hard line toward crime. But this eagerness to construct more prisons raises basic questions about what the community wants and will tolerate and what the Supreme Court will sanction. |
Contenido
In Search of Community Sentiment | 7 |
Understanding Nullification | 23 |
Revealing Jurors Sentiments | 41 |
How Jurors Construct Reality | 63 |
Objectivity versus Subjectivity in the Law | 79 |
The Sacred Precinct of the Bedroom | 97 |
The Right to Die | 112 |
Cruel and Unusual Punishment | 132 |
The Juvenile Death Penalty | 196 |
On SelfDefense Justice | 223 |
The SelfDefense Drama | 240 |
The Maddening Changes in Insanity Law | 261 |
How Jurors Construe Insanity | 279 |
Murderous Passions Mitigating Sentiments | 298 |
The Path of Commonsense Justice | 319 |
Notes | 339 |
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Commonsense Justice: Jurors' Notions of the Law Norman J. FINKEL,Norman J Finkel Vista previa limitada - 2009 |