Böcker i Law, Society and Policy-serien

Legal realism is a powerful jurisprudential tradition which urges attention to sodal conditions and predicts their influence in the legal process.

The perception that our nation's public schools are disorderly and unsafe is widespread, and the image of the public school is deteriorating. The public has given the schools low marks, and the Senate Judiciary Committee (1975) gave the schools an" A" in violence and vandalism.

The study of decisions in the criminal justice process provides a useful focus for the examination of many fundamental aspects of criminal jus tice. First, it is as sumed that a choice of possible decisions (or, more precisely, of possible alternatives) is available.