Bøker av Norman J. Finkel

This book revives to issues of jury ethics by collecting new and insightful essays along with responses from leading scholars in the field of jury studies.

The insanity defense debate has come full circle, again. the "acts" of both would-be "insanity acquittees" provoked the press, the populace, a President, and a Queen to expressions of outrage, and triggered Congress, the House of Lords, judges, jurists, psychologists, and psychiatrists to debate this most maddening matter.

In this timely book, Norman Finkel looks at the relationship between the "law on the books," as set down in the Constitution and developed in cases and decisions, and what he calls "commonsense justice" the ordinary citizen's notions of what is just and fair.

The insanity defense debate has come full circle, again. the "acts" of both would-be "insanity acquittees" provoked the press, the populace, a President, and a Queen to expressions of outrage, and triggered Congress, the House of Lords, judges, jurists, psychologists, and psychiatrists to debate this most maddening matter.