Law and Justice Studies

Community Policing papers and reports (CAPS)

WP-06-05
Estimating the Accuracy of Jury Verdicts
Bruce D. Spencer

WP-06-07
Lawyers of the Right: Networks and Organization
Anthony Paik, Ann Southworth, and John P. Heinz

WP-02-23
Lawyers for Conservative Causes: Clients, Ideology, and Social Distance
John P. Heinz, Anthony Paik, and Ann Southworth

WP-02-37
The Mark of a Criminal Record
Devah Pager

WP-02-39
Civil Death or Civil Rights? Public Attitudes Towards Felon Disefranchisement in the United States
Jeff Manza, Clem Brooks, and Christopher Uggen

WP-02-40
Ballot Manipulation and the "Menace of Negro Domination": Racial Threat and Felon Disfranchisement in the United States, 1850-2000
Angela Behrens, Christoper Uggen, and Jeff Manza

WP-00-21
The Truly Disfranchised: Felon Voting Rights and American Politics
Jeff Manza, Christopher Uggen, and Marcus Britton

WP-00-23
The Scale of Justice: Observations on the Transformation of Urban Law Practice
John P. Heinz, Robert L. Nelson, and Edward O. Laumann

WP-00-24
Rethinking the Puzzle of Escalating Penalties for Repeat Offenders
David A. Dana

WP-99-13
Rules and Responsibility: What Kinds of Rule Systems Encourage Responsibility Rather Than Accountability?
Carol A. Heimer

WP-99-21
Lawyers' Roles in Voluntary Associations: Declining Social Capital?
John P. Heinz and Paul S. Schnorr, with Edward O. Laumann and Robert L. Nelson

WP-99-25
Litigation Costs and Returns to Experience
Paul Oyer and Scott Schaefer

WP-98-06
Lawyers and Their Discontents: Findings from a Survey of the Chicago Bar
John P. Heinz, Kathleen E. Hull, and Ava A. Harter

WP-98-19
The Ethics of Punishing Indigent Parents
Dorothy Roberts

WP-98-34
Layoffs and Litigation
Paul Oyer and Scott Schaefer

WP-97-13
When Morality and Economics Collide (or Not) in a Texas Community
Dennis Chong and Anna-Maria Marshall

WP-97-16
Legalizing Gender Inequality: Courts, ThInstitutional Construction of Markets, and Unequal Pay for Women
Robert L. Nelson and William P. Bridges

WP-97-23
The Organization of Lawyers' Work: Hemispheres, Tectonic Plate Movements, and Continental Drift
John P. Heinz, Robert L. Nelson, Edward O. Laumann, and Ethan Michelson

WP-97-24
Gendered Career Paths in Law: Recent Evidence From a Survey of Urban Lawyers
Kathleen Hull and Robert L. Nelson

WP-96-28
Elite Networks Among Urban Lawyers
John P. Heinz, Edward O. Laumann, with Robert L. Nelson