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Quid Pro Books presents the new Fourth Edition of JUSTICE WITHOUT TRIAL. At last in a library-quality, modern hardcover presentation, the 2015 edition features a light blue cover and adds a substantive new Foreword by Candace McCoy. [NOTE: Versions with a purple, white, or gray cover are of much earlier editions, even if this description appears on their product pages.] ¿ This is the acclaimed and foundational study of police culture and practice, political accountability, application of and obedience to the rule of law in stops and arrests, and the dilemma of law versus order in free societies-by the renowned sociologist Jerome Skolnick using innovative and influential research techniques in law and criminology. A respected scholar in the early law and society movement, Skolnick interviewed police and criminals, rode extensively with police detectives and attended interrogations, and ultimately saw police conduct and mentality from the inside, before such methodology became popular. ¿ Every student of law and society knows this book: now it is available again with a new Foreword by Dr. McCoy and a new Preface by the author. Fifty years after his innovative research and the first edition of this book, the continuity and change of policing and law is seen again, in all its richness and nuance. ¿ Part of the 'Classics of Law & Society Series' from Quid Pro Books. Also available in paperback and parallel digital formats, 2011, for easy classroom adoption and diverse research options.

The classic introduction to law and its moral import, as clearly spun for lawyers and lay thinkers alike by America's legal legend, is now available in a library-quality clothbound edition with new Foreword and in a presentation suitable for gifting and keeping; it's an excellent read the summer before law school, for social scientists and historians, and for a graduation award. This new edition adds an extensive, biographical introduction by Steven Alan Childress, J.D., M.A., Ph.D., a senior professor of law at Tulane University. Presented in the Legal Legends Series by Quid Pro Books. - Building on the pragmatic conception of law he introduced in his 1881 book 'The Common Law, ' Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. -- by 1897 a jurist on Massachusetts' highest court and soon to be a Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court -- explored the limits and sources of law, as well as "the forces which determine its content and growth." This presentation is seen as laying down the gauntlet to legal scholars and judges in what would be known as the emerging "legal realism" movement. Later legal thinkers like Pound, Llewellyn and Douglas followed his lead, and that lead is seen most clearly in this essay. - By the time of this pithy and accessible writing, Holmes had crystallized and clarified that conception of law which he had, in introducing his earlier book, described in the famous statement "the life of the law is not logic: it is experience." Taking that observation to the next level, this essay made it clear that judges make law, not simply finding it in books -- and they must draw on practical effects and ends in declaring legal rules, not simply reasoning from precedent. He does not hedge: it is a "fallacy" to think that "the only force at work in the development of the law is logic." - More controversially, this essay makes a powerful distinction between law and morality. Law is more about what judges do, and how people react to that, than some lofty sense of ethics, he suggests. But is his figure of the "bad man" a hero or a cautionary tale? A realistic way to look at law and social control ... or a precursor to Hitler and Stalin? It's a must-read when considering law, its social meaning, and its ultimate purposes.

Jews are a people of law, and law defines who the Jewish people are and what they believe. This anthology engages with the growing complexity of what it is to be Jewish - and, more problematically, what it means to be at once Jewish and participate in secular legal systems as lawyers, judges, legal thinkers, civil rights advocates, and teachers. The essays in this book trace the history and chart the sociology of the Jewish legal profession over time, revealing new stories and dimensions of this significant aspect of the American Jewish experience and at the same time exploring the impact of Jewish lawyers and law firms on American legal practice. / "This superb collection reveals what an older focus on assimilation obscured. Jewish lawyers wanted to 'make it,' but they also wanted to make law and the legal profession different and better. These fascinating essays show how, despite considerable obstacles, they succeeded." - Daniel R. Ernst, Professor of Law, Georgetown University Law Center Author of "Tocqueville's Nightmare: The Administrative State Emerges in America, 1900-1940" / "This fascinating collection of essays by distinguished scholars illuminates the distinctive and intricate relationship between Jews and law. Exploring the various roles of Jewish lawyers in the United States, Germany, and Israel, they reveal how the practice of law has variously expressed, reinforced, or muted Jewish identity as lawyers demonstrated their commitments to the public interest, social justice, Jewish tradition, or personal ambition. Any student of law, lawyers, or Jewish values will be engaged by the questions asked and answered." - Jerold S. Auerbach, Professor Emeritus of History, Wellesley College, Author of "Unequal Justice" and "Rabbis and Lawyers" / The editors: Ari Mermelstein is Assistant Professor of Bible at Yeshiva University; Victoria Saker Woeste is Research Professor at the American Bar Foundation; Ethan Zadoff is a PhD Candidate in the Department of History of CUNY's Graduate Center; Marc Galanter is Professor of Law and South Asian Studies at the University of Wisconsin. Additional chapter contributions are by internationally recognized scholars in their fields, including Morton Horwitz, David Berger, Kenneth Ledford, Samuel Levine, Russell Pearce and Adam Winer, Dalia Tsuk Mitchell, Eli Wald, Ann Southworth, Lawrence Mitchell, Jay Michaelson, and Assaf Likhovski.