Terminology Service: SST: courts

... > criminology and criminal justice > criminology > social history of crime > courts, corrections, punishments > courts

... > criminology and criminal justice > criminology > law and society > law and political science > courts

... > political science > law and courts > law and society > law and political science > courts

... > criminology and criminal justice > criminology > street crime in America > law enforcement, courts, and corrections > courts

social science subjects > criminology and criminal justice > criminology > race and crime > courts

courts

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]

Terminology Service