Courtrooms of the Future. A number of jurisdictions are experimenting with high-technology courtrooms that allow the presentation of evidence by means of video and other multimedia formats and the paperless filing of motions online. Arizona has made substantial efforts in using the Internet to make the courts more accessible to the public. The Maricopa County, Arizona, court Web site, for example, has an online service center where people who are representing themselves can obtain forms to file for court protection orders and other matters. See http://www.superiorcourt.maricopa.gov.
Drug Courts. See John F. Anderson, "What to do about "much ado" about drug courts?" International Journal of Drug Policy 12 (2001): 469-475; The President's National Drug Control Strategy (Washington DC: Office of National Drug Control Policy, 2005); Denise C. Gottfredson, Stacy S. Najaka, and Brook Kearley, "Effectiveness of Drug Treatment Courts: Evidence from a Randomized Trial," Criminology and Public Policy 2 (2003): 171-196; David S. Festinger, Douglas B. Marlowe, Patricia A. Lee, Kimberley C. Kirby, Gregory Bovasso, and A. Thomas McLellan, "Status hearings in drug court: when more is less and less is more," Drug and Alcohol Dependence 68 (2002): 151-157; Douglas B. Marlowe, "Effective Strategies for Intervening with Drug Abusing Offenders," Villanova Law Review 47 (2002): 989-1026; James A. Inciardi, Duane C. McBride, and James E. Rivers, Drug Control and the Courts (Newbury Park, CA: Sage, 1996); Roger H. Peters and Mary R. Murrin, "Effectiveness of Treatment-Based Drug Courts in Reducing Recidivism," Criminal Justice and Behavior 20 (February 2000) 72-96.
The Supreme Court. Kermit L. Hall, The Oxford Guide to United States Supreme Court Decisions (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001); Jethro Koller Lieberman, A Practical Companion to the Constitution: How the Supreme Court Has Ruled on Issues from Abortion to Zoning (Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1999). Some excellent books on the U.S. Supreme Court are available, see David M. O'Brian, Storm Center: The Supreme Court in American Politics (New York: Norton, 1990); Henry J. Abraham, Justices, Presidents, and Senators (Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc., 1999); and Peter Irons, The People's History of the Supreme Court (New York: Penguin Books, 2000).
The Law of the Western Frontier. For those of you who want to learn more about the history of the "Wild West" as it relates to justice and the law, there are several interesting books available, including: Ruel McDaniel, Vinegarroon: The Saga of Judge Roy Bean, Law West of the Pecos (Kessinger Publishing, 2004); David C. Frederick, Rugged Justice: The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals and the American West, 1891-1941 (University of California Press, 1994); and Clare V. McKanna, Jr., The Trial of "Indian Joe"Race and Justice in the Nineteenth Century West (University of Nebraska Press, 2003).
