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Courtroom 302

Name: Courtroom 302
ISBN: 9780679752066

A Year Behind the Scenes in an American Criminal Courthouse

Steve Bogira

Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group · Print & ebook · February 14, 2006

Reading lane: Courts & the Judiciary

Legal Thrillers Courts & the Judiciary Criminal Sentencing psychology

crime history politics

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Why This Clicks

Justice in Practice

A year inside Cook County’s criminal courthouse brings the machinery of justice into close view.

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A courthouse seen from lockup, jury room, chambers, and gallery
Questions of race, civil rights, and justice in America

Expect

A ground-level view of the daily grind of felony court
An investigation attentive to the people who experience the system

Book Details

Authors: Steve Bogira
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Published: February 14, 2006
Format: Print & ebook
Theme: Courts & the Judiciary · Criminal Sentencing
Reading lane: Courts & the Judiciary

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Publisher Categories

Criminal Law
Courts & the Judiciary
Criminology

About This Book

Courtroom 302 is the fascinating story of one year in Chicago's Cook County Criminal Courthouse, the busiest felony courthouse in the country. Here we see the system through the eyes of the men and women who experience it, not only in the courtroom but in the lockup, the jury room, the judge's chambers, the spectators' gallery. From the daily grind of the court to the highest-profile case of the year, Steve Bogira’s masterful investigation raises fundamental issues of race,...

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