ISSN:0265-8240    

DOI:10.1111/j.1467-9930.1983.tb00306.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1983

数据来源: WILEY

摘要:

The most frequent explanations for the endurance of the Supreme Court's policies and of its power as a national policymaker assume public reverence for the Court, widespread support for it as an institution, or broad‐based agreement with its policies. Public opinion studies refute most of these assumptions. Our research confirms those studies and shows, in addition, that the Court cannot claim strong support among occasional political activists. It does, however, have a strong constituency among liberal activists and liberal position‐holders. We hypothesize, therefore, that the Court's endurance as a national policymaker is explained by special support from one wing of the dominant party coalition that, because of its strategic location in the complex national policy process, is able to obstruct broadly‐based attacks on the Court's authority and policy. Such attacks gain force, however, when critical elections alter the dominant party coalition and therefore weaken the hold of the Court's ideological allies. Yet even then—or at least so far—the Court and its policies have prevailed against various court curbin

ISSN:0265-8240    

DOI:10.1111/j.1467-9930.1983.tb00307.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1983

数据来源: WILEY

摘要:

Using quantifiable attorney behavior measures, instead of outcome measures, both before and during court hearings, this study attempts to evaluate legal representation under reform civil commitment procedures. Counsel representing involuntary commitment respondents full time were well prepared. Court appointed counsel, though better prepared than reported in studies done prior to reform, did not fully investigate their cases. Lack of adequate preparation was associated with a passive role and a non adversary position in court.

ISSN:0265-8240    

DOI:10.1111/j.1467-9930.1983.tb00308.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1983

数据来源: WILEY

摘要:

As agents of the state, the police work in dynamic, normatively ambiguous, and conflict‐laden political environments. In these settings, various local partisan interests try to influence the police organization. As a result, technological, socio‐cultural, and political forces may produce anomalous administrative decisions in police agencies. These forces are “stabilized” by the personal views of the decision makers. This article focuses on a specific case of administrative decision making that illuminates the uneven competition among different partisan actors who seek to influence police policies and pr

ISSN:0265-8240    

DOI:10.1111/j.1467-9930.1983.tb00309.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1983

数据来源: WILEY

摘要:

In recent years, various determinate sentencing models have been proposed to promote equity in sentencing and prisoner release certainty. This article examines the implementation of Minnesota's determinate sentencing law as it relates to prisoners and the state correctional system, It reviews the extent of the reform's success in achieving predictability in prisoner release dates and equity in sentencing. Organizational, political, and transitional problems in the implementation of the determinacy concept are discussed. In particular, resistance to change among parole board and correctional treatment staff members and a prisoner movement for retroactivity are highlighted. Conditions that could lead to replications of Minnesota's experience in other states are reviewed.

ISSN:0265-8240    

DOI:10.1111/j.1467-9930.1983.tb00310.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1983

数据来源: WILEY