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CHOICE Review

A challenging book that raises questions about the administration of justice and state authority. A cross-cultural analysis of organizational authority, types of state, and types of legal proceeding provides the framework within which the relationship between justice and authority is ultimately addressed. This particular analytic approach enables the author to make distinctions between the Continental and Anglo-American systems of administering justice and draw inferences about the nature and distribution of justice in those systems. Damaska's analysis of the conflict-solving and the policy-implementing types of proceeding, and how these affect types of justice, is most compelling. The footnotes are adequate. The book focuses critical attention on what we want by way of justice and requires us to think about how that can best be achieved. Recommended for four -year colleges with honors programs in history, political science, criminal justice, or prelaw.-M.A. Foley, Marywood College