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Public defenders : pragmatic and political motivations to represent the indigent / Michael Scott Weiss.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Weiss, Michael Scott, 1969-
- Series:
- Criminal justice (LFB Scholarly Publishing LLC)
- Criminal justice : recent scholarship
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Public defenders--United States--Attitudes.
- Public defenders.
- Legal assistance to the poor--United States.
- Legal assistance to the poor.
- Right to counsel--United States.
- Right to counsel.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (311 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- New York : LFB Scholarly Publishing, 2005.
- Language Note:
- English
- Contents:
- A study of public defender motivations
- Defense attorneys in the criminal courts
- Challenges of public defense
- A qualitative, semi-structured interview study
- Pragmatic motivations
- Legal and constitutional motivations
- Altruistic motivations
- Anti-establishment motivations
- Anti-police motivations
- Anti-prosecutor motivations
- Anti-judge and anti-corrections motivations
- Public defender motivations.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 287-293) and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-59332-162-7
- OCLC:
- 228124659
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