Malcolm M. Feeley, University of California, Berkeley, USA and Flinders University, Australia

• Contents: Introduction; Part I Theoretical Reflections: Coercion and compliance: a new look at an old problem; The concept of laws in social science: a critique and notes on an expanded view; A solution to the 'voting dilemma' in modern democratic theory; Legality, social research and the challenge of institutional review boards; The Black basis of constitutional development. Part II Organizational Theory, Change, and the Criminal Process: The adversary system; Two models of the criminal justice system: an organizational perspective; The process is the punishment; Bail reform; Responsive law and the judicial process: implications for the judicial function (with Edward L. Rubin); The prison conditions cases and the bureaucratization of American corrections: impacts and implications (with Van Sweareingen); Implementing court orders in the United States: judges as executives. Part III Social Theory and the Criminal Process: The new penology: notes on the emerging strategy of corrections and its implications (with Jonathan Simon); Actuarial justice: the emerging new criminal law, (with Jonathan Simon); Crime, social order, and the rise of neo-conservative politics. Part IV Continuities and Change: History, Social Theory, and the Criminal Process: The Development of Plea Bargaining: Perspectives on plea bargaining; Legal complexity and the transformation of the criminal process: the origins of plea bargaining. Women and Crime: The vanishing female: the decline of women in the criminal process (with Deborah L. Little). Privatization of Punishment: Entrepreneurs of punishment: the legacy of privatization; Name index.