Jury Nullification. A good review of the issues appears in Joan Biskupic, "Veto by Jury," Washington Post National Weekly Edition (March 29, 1999) 6-8. For more information on the topic of jury nullification and its social and cultural impact on the justice system see John Clark, "The social psychology of jury nullification,"Law and Psychology Review 24 (2000) 39-57; and Clay S. Conrad, Jury Nullification:The Evolution of Doctrine (Durham, NC: Carolina Academic Press, 1998).
Mean Justice. Mean Justice, by Edward Humes (Simon and Schuster, 1999) is a Pulitzer Prize-winning story of how an innocent person became a casualty of the "war on crime" in a California community. The book provides an excellent view of the criminal justice system from the point of view of an investigative reporter.
African Americans and the Criminal Justice System. Two recent and noteworthy volumes are available on this topic. See David Cole, No Equal Justice (New York: New Press, 1999); Samuel Walker, Cassia Spohn, and Miriam DeLone, The Color of Justice: Race, Ethnicity and Crime in America (Belmont CA: Wadsworth, 2000); Marvin D. Free, ed., Racial Issues in Criminal Justice: The African Americans: The Case of African Americans (Criminal Justice, Delinquency, and Corrections)(Westport, CT: Praeger Publishers, 2003).
Current Court Cases. Materials on recent trials and court decisions can be found on the Court TV Web site. See http://www.courttv.com/index.html.
Bail and Bounty Hunters. A thorough treatment of bail and bounty hunters appears in Jonathan Drimmer, "When Man Hunts Man: The Rights and Duties of Bounty Hunters in the American Criminal Justice System," Houston Law Review 33 (1996): 731-793. See also: Jacqueline Pope, Bounty Hunters, Marshals, and Sheriffs: Forward to the Past (Westport, CT: Praeger, 1998); and Joshua Armstrong and Anthony Bruno, The Seekers:Finding Felons and Guiding Men: A Bounty Hunter's Story (New York: Avon, 2001).
