Malcolm Feeley, Edward L. Rubin, Feeley Malcolm M.

Judicial Policy Making and the Modern State

How the Courts Reformed America's Prisons

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Produktbeschreibung

Investigates the role of federal judges in prison reform, and policy making in general.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 508
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. August 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 34mm
• Gewicht: 970g
• ISBN-13: 9780521593533
• ISBN-10: 0521593530
• Artikelnr.: 21438335

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction
Part I. The Case of Judicial Prison Reform: 2. An overview of judicial prison reform
3. Two classic prison reform cases: Arkansas and Texas
4. Three variations on a theme: the Colorado penitentiary, the Santa Clara county jails and Marion penitentiary
Part II. The Theory of Judicial Policy-Making: 5. Defining the problem, identifying the goal, and rejecting the principle of federalism
6. Creating doctrine, choosing solutions and transforming the rule of law
7. Implementing the solution, muddling through and ignoring the separation of powers principle
8. Conclusion
9. CODA: assessing the successes of judicial prison reform.