Handbook of Justice Research in Law

Justice—a word of great simplicity and almost frightening scope. When we were invited to edit a volume on justice in law, we joked about the small topic we had been assigned. Often humor masks fear, and this was certainly one of those times. Throughout th

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Handbook of Justice Research in Law Edited by

Joseph Sanders and

V. Lee Hamilton

Kluwer Academic Publishers New York, Boston, Dordrecht, London, Moscow

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0-306-47379-8 0-306-46340-7

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Contributors

William P. Bridges, Department of Sociology, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois 60607 Karen S. Cook, Department of Sociology, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305 Barry C. Feld, University of Minnesota Law School, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455 William L. F. Felstiner, Cardiff University Law School, Cardiff, United Kingdom, and Law and Society Program, University of California, Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, California 93106 V. Lee Hamilton, Department of Sociology, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland 20742 Valerie P. Hans, Department of Psychology, University of Delaware, Wilmington, Delaware 19802 Karen A. Hegtvedt, Department of Sociology, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia 30322 Deborah R. Hensler, Stanford University Law School, Stanford, California 94305 Robert Howard, Department of Political Science, Georgia State University, Atlanta, Georgia 30303 Kwok Leung, Department of Management, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China E. Allen Lind, Fuqua School of Business, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina 27708 Jill McCorkel, Department of Sociology, Northern Illinois University, De Kalb, Illinois 60115 Michael W. Morris, Graduate School of Business, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305 Robert L. Nelson, Department of Sociology, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois 60208 Ben Pettit, Department of Political Science, University of California, Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, California 93106 Joseph Sanders, University of Houston Law Center, Houston, Texas 77204 v

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CONTRIBUTORS

Frederika E. Schmitt, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Millersville University, Millersville, Pennsylvania 17551 John Scholz, Department of Political Science, State University of New York at Stony Brook, Stony Brook, New York 11794 Tom R. Tyler, Department of Psychology, New York University, New York, New York 10003 Neil Vidmar, Duke University Law School, Durham, North Carolina 27706

Preface

Justice—a word of great simplicity and almost frightening scope. When we were invited to edit a volume on justice in law, we joked about the small topic we had been assigned. Often humor masks fear, and this was certainly one of those times. Throughout the project, we found daunting the task of covering even a fraction of the topics that usually fall under the umbrella of justice