Presents research findings on city courts and their processing of misdemeanors, illuminating the conditions under which bias is maximized and minimized in the l

Presents research findings on city courts and their processing of misdemeanors, illuminating the conditions under which bias is maximized and minimized in the l

*A New York Times Bestseller* An important overview of the way our justice system works, and why the rule of law is essential to our survival as a society—fro

In the United States, almost 90 percent of state judges have to run in popular elections to remain on the bench. In the past decade, this peculiarly American in

In Appeal to the People’s Court: Rethinking Law, Judging, and Punishment, Vincent Luizzi turns to the goings on in courts at the lowest level of adjudication