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Ostrom, Brian J. et al.
Trial Courts as Organizations.
Chicago: Temple University Press (2007).
In this book, the authors examine how courts operate, what characteristics they may display, and how they function as a unit to preserve judicial independence, strengthen organizational leadership, and influence court performance.
Ostrom, Brian, Roger Hanson, Charles Ostrom, and Matthew Kleiman.
"Court Cultures and their Consequences."
Court Manager Volume 20, Number 1. (Spring 2005).
This article talks about how court culture is defined as the expectations and beliefs judges and court administrators have about the way work gets done.
Burke, Hon. Kevin, and Frank Broccolina.
"Another View of Local Legal Culture: More Than Court Culture."
Court Manager Volume 20, number. 4: Page 29 (Winter 2005).
This article is a rebuttal to the article by Geoff Gallas, "Local Legal Culture: More Than Court Culture." The authors argue that court culture has a significant impact on case-processing times, and courts should examine their court culture to become more effective.
Gallas, Geoff.
"Local Legal Culture: More Than Court Culture."
Court Manager Volume 20, Number 4, Page 23 (Winter 2005).
This article begins with the historical development of the concept of “local legal culture" and how its limitations led to the development of the broader concept of “court culture.”
Ostrom, Brian
Efficiency, Timeliness and Quality: A New Perspective from Nine State Criminal Trial Courts.
National Institute of Justice (June 2000).
Timeliness and the quality of justice are not mutually exclusive either in theory or in fact. Expeditious criminal case resolution is found to be associated with court systems in which the conditions also promote effective advocacy. Because effective advocacy underlies due process and equal protection of the law, it is an integral apsect of the broader concept of quality case processing. The evidence from this study suggests that well-performing courts should be expected to excel in terms of both timeliness and quality.
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Flemming, Roy et al.
The Craft of Justice.
Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press (1992).
The authors investigate "the ideas of craft and court communities as conceptual compasses [and explore] the 'plural legal orders' of nine medium-sized felony courts in Illinois, Michigan, and Pennsylvania." The definition of the "craft of justice" used in the book is "how they [court actors] went about their work as well as to how they politicked within the court community." The three major topics analyzed are prosecution, defense, and judging. (KF9223 .F57 1992)
Eisenstein, James et al.
The Contours of Justice: Communities and Their Courts.
Boston: Little and Brown (1988).
The main purpose of the book is to provide the reader with a better understanding of criminal courts. To do so, the authors use the metaphor of a community when attempting to explain the processes of the court. (KF9223 .Z95 E37 1988)
Nardulli, Peter F. et al.
The Tenor of Justice: Criminal Courts and the Guilty Plea Process.
Urbana: University of Illinois Press (1988).
Part of the series that includes The Contours of Justice and The Craft of Justice, this work focuses on addressing public skepticism concerning the activities of the lower courts. Realizing that the processes and decisions of lower courts are rarely reported unless an unexpected decision is issued, the authors collected vast amounts of data to record the processes of the criminal judicial system. (KF9654 .N37 1988)
Church, Thomas W., Jr.
Examining Local Legal Culture: Petitioner Attitudes in Four Criminal Courts.
Washington, DC: U.S. Department of Justice, National Institute of Justice (1985).
This study was originally a part of a larger study concerning trial court delay. The preface of the study states: "A major conclusion of that research was that the pace of litigation in urban trial courts is strongly related to norms and attitudes held by local practitioners regarding the proper pace of litigation--an element of what we termed 'local legal culture.' . . . Its principal aim is to determine whether a concept as elusive as legal culture could be operationalized in quantitative terms and extended beyond the issue of delay." (KF9223 .C56 1982)
Church, Thomas W., Jr.
"Who Sets the Pace of Litigation in Urban Trial Courts?."
Judicature 65: 76 (1981).
This article looks at the entire court system rather than a single actor being responsible for court delays. The article also contains statistical information on four urban areas: Bronx, Detroit, Miami, and Pittsburgh. (KF200 J8)
Nimmer, Raymond.
The Nature of System Change: Reform Impact on Criminal Courts.
Chicago: American Bar Association (1978).
This 225-page book focuses on "the process of reform and the assumptions that currently underlie it." The author believes that the failures of judicial reforms "can be attributed in large part to recurring misperceptions about the nature of the judicial process and about how behavior within that process can be modified." (KF384 .N5)
Eisenstein, James, and Herbert Jacob.
Felony Justice: An Organizational Analysis of Criminal Courts.
Boston: Little Brown (1977).
This book investigates the felony dispositions in three cities--Baltimore, Chicago, and Detroit--from 1972 to 1973. The focus of the book is on the interactions among the different characters in the courtroom. (KF9619 .E5)
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