Courtroom 302
A Year Behind the Scenes in an American Criminal Courthouse
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group · Print & ebook · February 14, 2006
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- Who it’s for
- A year inside Cook County’s criminal courthouse brings the machinery of justice into close view.
- Themes
- Criminal justice system, Race and civil rights, Justice in America
- Genres
- Courts & Judicial System, True Crime, Criminology
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Courtroom 302 is the fascinating story of one year in Chicago's Cook County Criminal Courthouse, the busiest felony courthouse in the country. Here we see the system through the eyes of the men and women who experience it, not only in the courtroom but in the lockup, the jury room, the judge's chambers, the spectators' gallery.
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From the daily grind of the court to the highest-profile case of the year, Steve Bogira’s masterful investigation raises fundamental issues of race, civil rights, and justice in America.
Justice in Practice
A year inside Cook County’s criminal courthouse brings the machinery of justice into close view.
Come here for
- A courthouse seen from lockup, jury room, chambers, and gallery
- Questions of race, civil rights, and justice in America
Expect
- A ground-level view of the daily grind of felony court
- An investigation attentive to the people who experience the system
Where it sits
| Courts & Judicial System | 77% |
|---|---|
| Criminology | 40% |
| True Crime | 39% |
Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.
Publisher categories
- Criminal Law
- Courts & the Judiciary
- Criminology
- Authors
- Steve Bogira
- Publisher
- Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
- Published
- February 14, 2006
- Format
- Print & ebook
- Theme
- Criminal justice system · Race and civil rights · Justice in America
- Reading lane
- Criminal Law