Shadow Justice: The Ideology and Institutionalization of Alternatives to Court

by Christine B. Harrington

This first critical examination of informal dispute processing links the institutionalization of alternatives to the court process and the ideology of informalism with the evolution of the American court system. The author connects dispute processing reform to the broader social and political context in which it developed, including the rise of judicial management in the Progressive period and the reconstruction of court unification in the 1970s...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0313243328
• ISBN13: 9780313243325
• Release Date: November 1985
• Publisher: Praeger
• Length: 230 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 8.5"