The jury trial in criminal justice

Ch. 1. The declining importance of the jury trial and the plea bargaining problem. Introduction / Douglas D. Koski ; On the myth of written constitutions: the disappearance of criminal jury trial / John H. Langbein ; Happy New Year-you're a juror / Ivor Kraft ; Bargaining in the shadow of the hammer: the trial penalty in the USA / Candace McCoy ; Juries: the great American myth / Gerry Spence

Ch. 2. The defense counsel: the duty of zealous representation and the "usurpation" problem. Introduction / Douglas D. Koski ; Defending the defenders / Alan M. Dershowitz ; The practice of law as a confidence game / Abraham S. Blumberg ; But how can you sleep nights? / Lisa J. McIntyre ; Address to prisoners in Cook County Jail, 1902 / Clarence Darrow

Ch. 3. The prosecutor: the duty to seek justice and the abuse of discretion problem. Introduction / Douglas D. Koski ; The decision to prosecute / George F. Cole ; The prosecutor's domain / William F. McDonald ; A moral standard for the prosecutor's exercise of the charging discretion / Bennett L. Gershman

Prosecutors as crime creators: the case of prenatal drug use / Karen J. Maschke

Ch. 4. The victim: the nature of victimization and the "victim legitimacy" problem. Introduction: the social framework of victimization / Douglas D. Koski ; The ideal victim / Nils Christie ; Placebo justice: victim recommendations and offender sentences in sexual assault cases / Anthony Walsh ; The victim-offender relationship in convicted homicide cases: 1960-1984 / John D. Hewitt ; Repeat victimization among adolescents and young adults / Janet L. Lauritsen and Kenna F. Davis Quinet ; The criminal among us / Willie James Jennings ; The vilification of the crime problem / Frank J. Weed

Ch. 5. Jury selection and the "biased juror problem." Introduction / Douglas D. Koski

The socialization of jurors: the voir dire as a rite of passage / Robert W. Balch, Curt Taylor Griffiths, Edwin L. Hall and L. Thomas Winfree ; Juror honesty during the voir dire / Richard Selzer, Mark A. Venuti and Grace M. Lopes ; Social psychology in court / Michael J. Saks and Reid Hastie ; Scientific jury selection: what social scientists know and do not know / Shari Seidman Diamond ; Jury selection: a social scientific analysis / Douglas D. Koski

Ch. 6. The story model of jury decision-making and the "jury nullification problem." Introduction: jury decision-making and its assessment / Douglas D. Koski ; Memory for pragmatic implications from courtroom testimony / Richard J. Harris, R. Ross Teske and Martha J. Ginns ; Storytelling in the courtroom / W. Lance Bennett and Martha S. Feldman ; The story model for juror decision making / Nancy Pennington and Reid Hastie ; Some steps between attitudes and verdicts / Phoebe C. Ellsworth ; Effects of jurors identification with the victim depends on likelihood of victimization / Martin F. Kaplan and Lynn E. Miller ; Jury nullification in the United States of America: a brief history and 21st century conception / Douglas D. Koski and Hui-Yu Lee.