The judicial role in criminal proceedings / edited by Sean Doran and John D. Jackson.

Oxford : Hart Publishing, 2000.

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Judges.

Criminal justice, Administration of.

Justice, Administration of.

Judicial process.

Judicial process.

Sentences (Criminal procedure)

1. The necessarily expanding role of the criminal trial judge

2. Comparative perspectives on the judicial role

3. Fact determination: common sense knowledge, judicial notice and social science evidence

4. The separation of questions of law and fact in the new Russian and Spanish jury verdicts

5. Plea bargaining: ethics and politics

6. Attempting to ensure fairness in the glare of the media

7. The impact of human rights on judicial decision making in criminal cases

8. Evidential rules for criminal trials: who should be in charge?

9. Victims and the criminal process: a public service ethos for criminal justice?

10. Judges and gender

11. Co-operative justice and the adversarial criminal trial: lessons from the Woolf Report

12. Raising concerns about magistrates' clerks

13. The Truth and Reconciliation Commission in South Africa

14. Judicial roles and the criminal process during states of emergency: a framework for analysis

15. Emergency cases: commissions, commissioners and the commodity of justice

16. The United States perspective on the judicial role in sentencing: a story of small victories and a call of partial solutions in a difficult environment

17. Some reflections on the federal judicial role during the war on drugs

18. The rules of legislature and judiciary in English sentencing

19. The Judicial role in the balance between two visions of justice in sentencing

20. Judicial discretion and gender issues in sentencing.

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