Author: Zeisel, Hans; Harry Kalven, Jr. & Bernard Buchholz.
Title: Delay in the court.
Description: Boston & Toronto : Little, Brown and Company, 1959. Orig. cloth binding. xix,313 pp. Stamp on title-page. Mailorder only - Alleen verzending mogelijk. Book condition : very good. From the publisher : The highly revealing and intensely interesting results of five years' research on the jury and on judicial administration, conducted by the University of Chicago Law School under a Ford Foundation grant, are to be reported in a series of important studies of which DELAY IN THE COURT is the first. The University of Chicago Jury Project is the most significant inquiry ever made into the working of the American jury system. Forth coming volumes will cover a wide range of topics, including the factors which influence fury decision-making, jury deliberation as a social process, the impact of background on the views of individual jurors, the differences in decision-making between judge and jury, the administration of jury selection and the voir dire, and the reputation and community image of the jury. Individually and collectively these studies give new insight into problems of the administration of justice, and represent a major achievement of interdisciplinary research on significant legal problems. DELAY IN THE COURT gives arresting evidence of the potential for betterment of social institutions to be found in a partnership of lawyer and social scientist, In surveving one of the most pressing of contemporary legal problems, it demonstrates the power of the integrated use of research techniques such as survey, experiment, secondary use of administrative records, content analysis, forecasting, and analysis of time series data. The conclusion of the authors that the problem is well within the reach of practical solution is encouraging, and the course charted by them for the future will be of vast practical value in achieving a solution to a problem which affects every citizen.

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