| Title: A NATION UNDER LAWYERS |
| Subtitle: How the Crisis in the Legal Profession is Transforming American Society |
| Author: Mary Ann Glendon |
| Publisher: Harvard University Press, Cambridge, 1994 |
| Comments: Herself a lawyer, Glendon is sympathetic towards the profession. The book is more about legal education and transformations of lawyer life than transformations of society, but some good material can be gleaned if you can avoid choking on such twaddle as defense lawyers being "...the closest thing America has to the Knights of the Round Table." |
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| Title: ANATOMY OF A JURY, THE SYSTEM ON TRIAL |
| Author: Seymour Wishman |
| Publisher: Times Books, New York, 1986 |
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| Title: BLACK MONDAYS |
| Subtitle: Worst Decisions of the Supreme Court |
| Author: Joel D. Joseph |
| Publisher: National Press, Bethesda, MD, 1987 |
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| Title: BUREAU OF JUSTICE STATISTICS |
| Publisher: DOJ (U.S. Department of Justice) |
| Comments:Comprehensive annual reports and various other publications are available from this government agency. |
| Availability: Contact the U.S. Department of Justice |
| Title: CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA |
| Comments: If it's been a while since you last studied this great document, you should review it. One prominent writer-attorney in this field reports he has yet to meet a lawyer who read it at law school. |
| Availability: Encyclopedia, Local Library |
| Title: CRIME AND HUMAN NATURE |
| Authors: James Q. Wilson and Richard J. Herrnstein |
| Publisher: Simon and Schuster, New York, 1985 |
| Availability: Bookstores, Amazon.com, Barnes&Noble.com |
| Title: CRIME IN AMERICA |
| Author: Ramsay Clark |
| Publisher: Simon and Schuster, New York, 1970 |
| Availability: Bookstores, Amazon.com, Barnes&Noble.com |
| Title: CRIME IN THE UNITED STATES |
| Author: Federal Bureau of Investigation |
| Publisher: U.S. Government |
| Availability: Contact the FBI |
| Title: CRIMINAL JUSTICE? |
| Subtitle: The Legal System vs. Individual Responsibility |
| Author: Edited By Robert James Bidinotto |
| Publisher: The Foundation For Economic Education, Inc., Irving-on-Hudson, New York, 1994 |
| Comments: This book is a compilation of 18 essays and readings, four of which are by the Editor himself. Bidinotto is a Reader's Digest investigative staff writer and is otherwise widely published. While this writer disagrees with a few of the recommendations in the collection, most of the writings are of high quality and illuminate basic, prominent problems with criminal justice in America today. |
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| Title: CRISIS IN OUR COURTS |
| Author: Steve Bertsch |
| Publisher: Gollehon Books, Grand Rapids, Michigan, 1993 |
| Comments: Bertsch is a lawyer—brave enough to speak out. He has a quick wit and provides a keen look at many problems of our legal system. His thinking on the jury system is superb, and his style and insight make for entertaining reading. |
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| Title: ESCAPE OF THE GUILTY |
| Author: Ralph Adam Fine |
| Publisher: Dodd, Mead, and Company, New York, 1986 |
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| Title: FED UP WITH THE LEGAL SYSTEM? |
| Subtitle: What's Wrong & How To Fix It |
| Authors: Ralph E. Warner and Stephen Elias |
| Publisher: Nolo Press, 1994 |
| Comments: Warner and Elias are attorneys. Warner is co-founder of Nolo Press, which publishes legal self-help and other books. Their book is full of great quotes. Some of the suggested remedies of Warner and Elias center around governmental or regulatory bodies and commissions, which would only increase the load on the citizenry and in most instances simply replace a bad set of legal procedures and corruption with another set of regulatory procedures and corruption—overseen by government. Many other of their suggestions are excellent and have been interweaved into this book. |
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| Title: GALILEO'S REVENGE |
| Subtitle: Junk Science In The Courtroom |
| Author: Peter W. Huber |
| Publisher: Basic Books, New York, 1993 |
| Comments: Another book by one of the nation's best legal authors. |
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| Title: GOVERNING PRISONS |
| Subtitle: A Comparative Study of Correctional Management |
| Author: John J. DiIulio, Jr. |
| Publisher: Free Press, New York, 1987 |
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| Title: HIT ME—I NEED THE MONEY |
| Author: Marjorie Berte |
| Publisher: ICS Press, San Francisco, CA 1991 |
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| Title: INSIDE THE CRIMINAL MIND |
| Author: Stanton E. Samenow |
| Publisher: Times Books, New York, 1984 |
| Availability: Bookstores, Amazon.com, Barnes&Noble.com |
| Title: LAWYERS AND OTHER REPTILES |
| Author: Jess M. Brallier |
| Publisher: Contemporary Books, Chicago, 1992 |
| Comments: Largely a book of humor, but contains many excellent quotes. |
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| Title: LIABILITY |
| Subtitle: The Legal Revolution And Its Consequences |
| Author: Peter W. Huber |
| Publisher: Basic Books, Inc., New York, 1988 |
| Comments: This is an excellent, scholarly work by one who has an in-depth knowledge of the law and how it has been twisted by lawyers and judges. Huber is a lawyer and as such, deserves respect for the service his well-researched and enlightening work provides. He has a unique, intellectual writing style and keen wit. The thrust of his book centers, as the title suggests, around liability. "Must" reading. |
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| Title: LOONY LAWS |
| Author: Robert W. Pelton |
| Publisher: Walker & Co., New York, 1990 |
| Availability: Bookstores, Amazon.com, Barnes&Noble.com |
| Title: LOSING GROUND |
| Subtitle: American Social Policy, 1950-1980 |
| Author: Charles Murray |
| Publisher: Basic Books, Inc., New York, 1984 |
| Availability: Bookstores, Amazon.com, Barnes&Noble.com |
| Title: LOST RIGHTS |
| Subtitle: The Destruction of American Liberty |
| Author: James Bovard |
| Publisher: St. Martin's Press, New York, 1994 |
| Comments: An excellent book, though largely concerned with a different American monster. |
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| Title: NO ESCAPE |
| Subtitle: The Future of American Corrections |
| Author: John J. DiIulio, Jr. |
| Publisher: Free Press, New York, 1991 |
| Availability: Bookstores, Amazon.com, Barnes&Noble.com |
| Title: OF THE SHARKS, BY THE SHARKS, FOR THE SHARKS |
| Subtitle: The Legal Revolution |
| Author: Paul Sharp |
| Publisher: CRJ |
| Comments: Preeminent analysis of the corruptions of the American legal system and necessary corrective recommendations. |
| Availability: Center for the Restoration of Justice |
| Title: SHARK TANK |
| Author: Kim Isaac Eisler |
| Publisher: Plume/Penguin Books, New York, 1991 |
| Comments: A chronicle of the rise and fall of America's second-largest law firm and the corruption involved. |
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| Title: THE BRETHREN |
| Authors: Bob Woodward and Scott Armstrong |
| Publisher: Simon and Schuster, New York, 1979 |
| Comments: Rather like a whole volume of one-step-up National-Enquirer-style gossip on the Supreme Court. The authors seem bent on discrediting Chief Justice Warren E. Burger. The book nevertheless provides pertinent insight, statements, and quotes. Warning: be prepared for explicit and foul language. |
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| Title: THE DEATH OF COMMON SENSE |
| Subtitle: How Law Is Suffocating America |
| Author: Philip K. Howard |
| Publisher: Warner Books, 1996 |
| Availability: Bookstores, Amazon.com, Barnes&Noble.com |
| Title: THE DEATH OF CONTRACT |
| Author: Grant Gilmore |
| Publisher: Ohio State University Press, 1974 |
| Availability: Bookstores, Amazon.com, Barnes&Noble.com |
| Title: THE INSANITY PLEA |
| Subtitle: The Uses and Abuses of the Insanity Defense |
| Author: William Winslade |
| Publisher: Charles Scribner's, 1983 |
| Availability: Bookstores, Amazon.com, Barnes&Noble.com |
| Title: THE JURY: DISORDER IN THE COURTS |
| Author: Stephen J. Adler |
| Publisher: Main Street Books |
| Availability: Bookstores, Amazon.com, Barnes&Noble.com |
| Title: THE LITIGATION EXPLOSION |
| Subtitle: What Happened When America Unleashed The Lawsuit |
| Author: Walter K. Olson |
| Publisher: Truman Talley Books (Plume / Penguin Books), New York, 1992 |
| Comments: Another excellent, scholarly work, scholarly yet written in an easily-readable style. The analogies and comparisons are often witty, sometimes ironic, generally poignant. The book covers lawsuits in all areas, and is required reading for anyone desiring to delve deeply into the legal system in America today. One of the best. |
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| Title: THE LITIGATORS |
| Author: John Jenkins |
| Publisher: Doubleday, 1989 |
| Availability: Bookstores, Amazon.com, Barnes&Noble.com |
| Title: THE MILLION-DOLLAR LAWYERS |
| Author: Joseph Goulden |
| Publisher: Putnam, 1978 |
| Availability: Bookstores, Amazon.com, Barnes&Noble.com |
| Title: THE TRENTON PICKLE ORDINANCE AND OTHER BONEHEAD LEGISLATION |
| Author: Dick Hyman |
| Publisher: Stephen Greene Press, Brattleboro, VT, 1976 |
| Comments: A wonderful work detailing numerous foolish laws still on the books across the nation. |
| Availability: Bookstores, Amazon.com, Barnes&Noble.com |
| Title: UNIFORM CRIME REPORTS FOR THE UNITED STATES |
| Author: U.S. DOJ (Department of Justice) |
| Publisher: U.S. Government |
| Comments: Published annually. |
| Availability: Contact the U.S. Department of Justice |
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