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The U. S. Supreme Court, the Judicial Process, and the Criminal Justice System: Further Readings

The United States Supreme Court

Abraham, Henry J. Justices, Presidents and Senators: A History of the U.S. Supreme Court Appointments from Washington to Clinton, rev. ed. Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield, 1999.

Atkinson, David N. Leaving the Bench: Supreme Court Justices at the End. Lawrence, KS: University Press of Kansas, 1999.

Baum, Lawrence. The Supreme Court, 9th ed. Washington: CQ Press, 2007.

Comiskey, Michael. Seeking Justices: The Judging of Supreme Court Nominees. Lawrence, KS: University Press of Kansas, 2004.

Cooper, Phillip, and Howard Ball. The United States Supreme Court: From the Inside Out. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1996.

Epstein, Lee, and Jack Knight. The Choices Justices Make. Washington: CQ Press, 1998.

Epstein, Lee, Jeffrey A. Segal, Harold J. Spaeth, and Thomas G. Walker. The Supreme Court Compendium, 4th ed. Washington: CQ Press, 2007.

Hall, Kermit L., James W. Ely, Jr., and Joel B. Grossman, eds. The Oxford Companion to the Supreme Court of the United States, 2nd ed. New York: Oxford University Press, 2005.

Hansford, Thomas G., and James F. Spriggs II. The Politics of Precedent on the U.S. Supreme Court. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2006.

Hoekstra, Valerie J. Public Reaction to Supreme Court Decisions. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2003.

Johnson, Timothy R. Oral Arguments and Decision Making on the United States Supreme Court. Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 2004.

Lazarus, Edward. Closed Chambers: The Rise, Fall, and Future of the Modern Supreme Court. New York: Penguin, 1999.

Maltese, John A. The Selling of Supreme Court Nominees. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1995.

Maltzman, Forrest, James F. Spriggs II, and Paul J. Wahlbeck. Crafting Law on the Supreme Court: The Collegial Game. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2000.

McGuire, Kevin T. The Supreme Court Bar: Legal Elites in the Washington Community. Charlottesville, VA: University of Virginia Press, 1993.

McGuire, Kevin T. Understanding the U.S. Supreme Court. New York: McGraw –Hill, 2002.

Murphy, Walter. Elements of Judicial Strategy. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1964.

O’Brien, David. Storm Center: The Supreme Court in American Politics, 7th ed. New York: W.W. Norton, 2005.

Pacelle, Richard L., Jr. The Transformation of the Supreme Court’s Agenda: From the New Deal to the Reagan Administration. Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1991.

Peppers, Todd C. Courtiers of the Marble Palace: The Rise and Influence of the Supreme Court Law Clerk. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2006.

Perry, Barbara A. The Priestly Tribe: The Supreme Court’s Image in the American Mind. Westport, CT: Praeger, 1999.

Perry, H. W., Jr. Deciding to Decide: Agenda Setting in the United States Supreme Court. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1991.

Rehnquist, William H. The Supreme Court, rev. ed. New York: Knopf, 2001.

Savage, David G. Guide to the U.S. Supreme Court, 4th ed. Washington: CQ Press, 2004.

Schwartz, Bernard. A History of the Supreme Court. New York: Oxford University Press, 1993.

Segal, Jeffrey A., and Harold J. Spaeth. The Supreme Court and the Attitudinal Model Revisited. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2002.

Segal, Jeffrey A., Harold J. Spaeth, and Sara C. Benesh. The Supreme Court in the American Legal System. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2005.

Semonche, John E. Keeping the Faith: A Cultural History of the U.S. Supreme Court. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 1998.

Slotnick, Elliot, and Jennifer A. Segal. Television News and the Supreme Court. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1998.

Spaeth, Harold J., and Jeffrey A. Segal. Majority Rule or Minority Will: Adherence to Precedent on the U.S. Supreme Court. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1999.

Tushnet, Mark. A Court Divided. New York: Norton, 2005.

Ward, Artemus. Deciding the Leave: The Politics of Retirement from the United States Supreme Court. Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 2003.

Ward, Artemus, and David L. Weiden. Sorcerers’ Apprentices: 100 Years of Law Clerks at the United States Supreme Court. New York: New York University Press, 2006.

Yalof, David A. Pursuit of Justices: Presidential Politics and the Selection of Supreme Court Nominees. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1999.

The Judicial Process

Abadinsky, Howard. Law and Justice: An Introduction to the American Legal System, 6th ed. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson Prentice Hall, 2008.

Abraham, Henry J. The Judicial Process, 7th ed. New York: Oxford University Press, 1998.

Banks, Christopher P., and David M. O’Brien. Courts and Judicial Policymaking. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson Prentice Hall, 2008.

Barrow, Deborah J., Gary Zuk, and Gerard S. Gryski. The Federal Judiciary and Institutional Change. Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press, 1996.

Baum, Lawrence. American Courts: Process and Policy, 6th ed. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2008.

Baum, Lawrence. Judges and Their Audiences. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2006.

Burke, Thomas F. Lawyers, Lawsuits and Legal Rights: The Battle Over Litigation in American Society. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2002.

Canon, Bradley C., and Charles A. Johnson. Judicial Policies: Implementation and Impact, 2nd ed. Washington: CQ Press, 1999.

Carp, Robert A., Ronald Stidham, and Kenneth L. Manning. Judicial Process in America, 7th ed. Washington: CQ Press, 2007.

Cohen, Jonathan M. Inside Appellate Courts. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2001.

Epstein, Lee, ed. Contemplating Courts. Washington: CQ Press, 1995.

Goldman, Sheldon. Picking Federal Judges: Lower Court Selection from Roosevelt Through Reagan. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1977.

Hans, Valerie P. Business on Trial: The Civil Jury and Corporate Responsibility. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2000.

Hettinger, Virginia A., Stefanie A. Lindquist, and Wendy L. Martinek. Judging on a Collegial Court: Influences on Federal Appellate Decision-Making. Charlottesville, VA: University of Virginia Press, 2006.

Kagan, Robert A. Adversarial Legalism: The American Way of Law. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2002.

Klein, David E. Making Law in the United States Courts of Appeals. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2002.

Langer, Laura. Judicial Review in State Supreme Courts: A Comparative Study. Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 2002.

Lieberman, Jethro K. The Litigious Society. New York: Basic Books, 1983.

Miller, Mark C. Exploring Judicial Politics. New York: Oxford University Press, 2009.

Miller, William S. A Primer on American Courts. New York: Pearson Longman, 2005.

Murphy, Walter F., C. Herman Pritchett, Lee Epstein, and Jack Knight. Courts, Judges and Politics: An Introduction to the Judicial Process, 6th ed. New York: McGraw-Hill, 2006.

Porto, Brian L. May It Please the Court: Judicial Processes and Politics in America. New York: Longman, 2001.

Posner, Richard A. The Federal Courts: Challenge and Reform. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1996.

Rosenberg, Gerald N. The Hollow Hope: Can Courts Bring about Social Change? Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1991.

Scherer, Nancy. Scoring Points: Politicians, Activists, and the Lower Federal Court Appointment Process. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2005.

Solomine, Michael E., and James L. Walker. Respecting State Courts: The Inevitability of Judicial Federalism. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1999.

Stumpf, Harry P., and John H. Culver. The Politics of State Courts. New York: Longman, 1992.

Tarr, G. Alan, and Mary Cornelia Porter. State Supreme Courts in State and Nation. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1988.

The Criminal Justice System:

Adler, Freda, Gerhard O. W. Mueller, and William S. Laufer. Criminal Justice: An Introduction, 3rd ed.. New York: McGraw-Hill, 2005.

Albanese Jay S. Criminal Justice, 3rd ed. Boston: Pearson Allyn and Bacon, 2005.

Barkan, Steven E., and George J. Bryjak. Fundamentals of Criminal Justice. Boston: Pearson Allyn and Bacon, 2004

Bodenhamer, David J. Fair Trial: Rights of the Accused in American History. New York: Oxford University Press, 1992.

Boyes-Watson, Carolyn. Criminal Justice: A Casebook Approach. Boston: Pearson Allyn and Bacon, 2003.

Champion, Dean J. The Roxbury Dictionary of Criminal Justice. Los Angeles: Roxbury Publishing, 1997.

Cole, George F., and Christopher E. Smith. The American System of Criminal Justice,9th ed. Belmont, CA: Wadsworth, 2001.

Delsohn, Gary. The Prosecutors: A Year in the Life of a District Attorney’s Office. New York: Dutton, 2003.

Durose, Matthew, and Patrick Langan. Felony Sentences in State Courts. Washington: Bureau of Justice Statistics, 2004.

Eisenstein, James, and Herbert Jacob. Felony Justice. Boston: Little Brown, 1977.

Fagin, James A. Criminal Justice,2nd ed. Boston: Pearson Allyn and Bacon, 2007.

Fisher, George. Plea Bargaining’s Triumph: A History of Plea Bargaining in America. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2003.

Gaines, Larry K., and Roger LeRoy Miller. Criminal Justice in Action: The Core, 4th ed. Belmont, CA: Thomson Wadsworth, 2008.

Jonakait, Randolph N. The American Jury System. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2003.

Kennedy, Randall. Race, Crime, and the Law. New York: Pantheon, 1997.

Lab, Steven P., et al. The Essentials of Criminal Justice. New York: Oxford University Press, 2008.

Neubauer, David W. America’s Courts and the Criminal Justice System, 8th ed. Belmont, CA: West/Wadsworth, 2004.

Reid, Sue Titus. Criminal Justice, 7th ed. Cincinnati, OH: Atomic Dog, 2006.

Reiman, Jeffrey. The Rich Get Richer and the Poor Get Prison, 8th ed. Boston: Pearson Allyn and Bacon, 2007.

Rush, George E. The Dictionary of Criminal Justice, 6th ed. New York: McGraw-Hill, 2003.

Samaha, Joel. Criminal Procedure. Belmont, CA: Thomson Learning, 2004.

Schmalleger, Frank. Criminal Justice Today, 10th ed. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson Prentice Hall, 2009.

Shelden, Randall G., and William B. Brown. Criminal Justice in America: A Critical View. Boston: Pearson Allyn and Bacon, 2003.

Siegel, Larry J. The Essentials of Criminal Justice, 6th ed. Belmont, CA: Wadsworth, 2009.

Uviller, H. Richard. The Tilted Playing Field: Is Criminal Justice Unfair? New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1999.

Vogel, Mary E. Coercion to Compromise: Plea Bargaining, the Courts, and the Making of Political Authority. New York: Oxford University Press, 2007.

Waltz, Jon R. Introduction to Criminal Evidence, 4th ed. Chicago: Nelson-Hall, 1997.

Wice, Paul B. Public Defenders and the American Justice System. Westport, CT: Praeger, 2005.

Zalman, Marvin, and Larry Siegel. Criminal Procedure: Constitution and Society, 2nd ed. Belmont, CA: West/Wadsworth, 1997.