law and political science
drug courts
sentencing
Latina/o/s and sentencing disparities
Native Americans and sentencing disparities
law enforcement, courts, and corrections
wilmington ten
race and crime
claims against the government
jury nullification
presentencing
Capital Jury Project
Baldus study
jury selection
African Americans and sentencing disparities
playing the race card
Native American courts
courts, corrections, punishments
Courts lie at one end of a spectrum of triadic conflict processing devices that ranges from go-betweens to mediators to arbitrators to judges. Running across most societies, there appears to be a fundamental logic of calling in a third to assist two persons experiencing a conflict that they cannot resolve for themselves. [Source: Encyclopedia of Law & Society: American and Global Perspectives; Courts]
courts
concepts