Courting the community : legitimacy and punishment in a community court /
Community Courts are designed to handle a city's low-level offenses and quality-of-life crimes, such as littering, loitering, or public drunkenness. Court advocates maintain that these largely victimless crimes jeopardize the well-being of residents, businesses, and visitors. Whereas traditiona...
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Philadelphia :
Temple University Press,
2019
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Table of Contents:
- Culture and punishment
- Broken windows, broken people
- Ordering the court
- The process of punishment
- Good defendants and good courts
- Ambivalent justice
- Justice for all? : marketing justice to a contested community
- Courting the community