Recent Publications
Beating a Rap? Defendants Found Incompetent to Stand Trial In this book, Henry Steadman, Director of the Special Projects Research Unit of the New York State Department of Mental Hygiene, addresses the common suspicion that defense attorneys enable their clients to escape criminal charges by having the clients declared incompetent to stand trial. Such suspicion, he argues, results both from public confusion over the legal and psychiatric issues in a competency hearing and from a lack of understanding (even among experts) about the practical results that flow from a determination of incompetency. Law and Order in American History Edited by Joseph M. Hawes This work is premised on the belief that an understanding of history is necessary to comprehend the complexities of America's modern criminal justice system. To illustrate the interaction between the criminal justice system and society, the editor has com-piled a series of readings which examine the components of the criminal justice system both historically and analytically. Joseph Hawes, an Associate Professor of History at Kansas State University, includes works by a sociologist, a criminologist, a political scientist and several historians in this anthology, in order to provide varied approaches. Law and the Arts--Art and the Law. Edited by Tem Horwitz This anthology is a comprehensive handbook and source book for literary, performing, and visual artists, craftspeople, arts attorneys, and arts administrators. Its nine essays reflect the nature and variety of legal problems that have surfaced during the past decade,which has witnessed a burgeoning interest in the arts and in arts organizations. The book is partially financed by grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Illinois Arts Council, and the Chicago Council on Fine Arts and purports to be a distillation of the experiences of the attorneys and staff of Lawyers for the Creative Arts. Letters of Louis D. Brandeis. VOLUME V: 1921-1941. Edited by Melvin I. Urofsky and David W. Levy. This is the ...