Law And Society 3rd Edition Matthew Lippman - Solutions

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Do Americans have a meaningful right to privacy?
How has the Supreme Court ruled in cases challenging drug testing?
Outline the role of technology, biometric data, DNA, and fingerprints in law enforcement.
Has law enforcement responded adequately to the threat posed by identity theft and cybercrime?
Does private data collection pose a threat to privacy?
Describe government surveillance. Is surveillance necessary to ensure national security?
Discuss the notion of the panopticon society. How is this relevant for contemporary issues?
What is the constitutional basis of the right to privacy?
Trace the development of the notion of privacy.
Discuss the importance of privacy for individual freedom and democracy. Are there negative aspects of individual claims to privacy? Is the loss of privacy unavoidable in the twenty-first-century United States?
What are the global causes of human trafficking? Why is human trafficking such a widespread and profitable crime?
Discuss the relationship between race and immigration policy.
Describe the background, elements, and reason for hate crimes. What accounts for the rise of white supremacist–inspired violence?
Explain the racially discriminatory impact of the enforcement of narcotics laws.
What is racial profiling? How does racial profiling play a role in stop and frisk and in the enforcement of traffic laws?
Discuss the major themes of critical race theory. Do you agree or disagree with the arguments of critical race theory?
Explain the reasons countries have abandoned the practice of female circumcision.
Discuss the role of social movements in combination with legal challenges in bringing about social change.
What has been the role of judicial decisions in prison reform?
Has Miranda v. Arizona been effective in protecting a suspect’s right to self-incrimination?
Did the recognition of same-sex marriage result from a political movement or from judicial decisions?
Was Roe v. Wade responsible for women gaining access to abortions? Why has a woman’s right to choose remained unsettled?
Did Brown v. Board of Education result in the desegregation of public schools? What was the contribution of the 1964 Civil Rights Act?
What is the judicial path and extra-judicial path to bringing about social change?
List the factors that determine whether there will be compliance with a law, evasion of a law, or resistance to a law.
What is the capacity of the law to change society?
Discuss the role of society in bringing about a change in the law.
Discuss whether law can deter genocide.
Outline various explanations for IPV and the response of the law. Do you agree that there is an overreliance on criminal law in regard to IPV?
What are the challenges of deterring prostitution? White-collar crime?
Can capital punishment deter homicide?
What are the difficulties in achieving special and general deterrence? Discuss the ethical considerations in deterring crime.
Distinguish between special and general deterrence. List and discuss the various approaches to measuring deterrence.
Why do individuals obey the law? What is the purpose of criminal punishment?
Discuss Durkheim’s distinction between mechanical solidarity and organic solidarity.What is the role of law in each type of society?
What accounts for wrongful convictions?
Do you favor mandatory minimum sentences?
Describe the purpose of three strikes sentencing laws. Have these laws been proven effective in deterring crime?
List the factors that a judge considers in sentencing a defendant.
What is the difference between juries in regular criminal cases and juries in death penalty cases? Are juries in death penalty cases more or less likely to impose the death penalty?
Are lawyers and social scientists able to scientifically predict how jurors will decide a case?
What is jury nullification? Are jurors informed of jury nullification?
Do judges and juries generally agree? On what types of cases do they differ?
What do we know about how juries make decisions?
Why did the jury take hold in the United States?
Trace the development of the jury in England.
What function do trials perform in the criminal justice system?
How does the American adversarial approach to criminal trials differ from the inquisitorial system?
What accounts for the high number of cases that are plea bargained rather than brought to trial?
Why do prosecutors drop charges of rape in some cases and bring charges of rape against defendants in other cases?
How do prosecutors differ in their prosecutorial styles?
Why are public defenders generally viewed as less skilled than private defense attorneys? Is there justification for the negative view of public defenders?
Discuss the differing views of defense attorneys.
Distinguish between the crime control and due process models.
Discuss the development of the alternative dispute resolution movement and the types of ADR. What are the arguments for and against ADR?
Is the United States a “rampantly litigious society”?
What are the main characteristics of the legal consciousness of Americans?
How do the social structure and legal culture of a society influence the form of disputing?
List various methods of dispute resolution.
What are various ways in which individuals may respond to a dispute?
Discuss the stages of a dispute.
Distinguish between a grievance and a dispute.
After reading the chapters on lawyers in the text, are you more or less inclined to become a lawyer?
Describe the core principles of legal ethics. What is the process of adjudicating legal ethics complaints? Why do lawyers commit ethical violations?
What is cause lawyering? Are lawyers acting unprofessionally who engage in cause lawyering rather than representing a wide variety of clients?
Describe how legal services plans operate.
What are the arguments for and against contingent fee arrangements?
Why is advertising by lawyers a controversial practice?
List the areas in which the legal needs of the middle and working classes are unmet.What are the barriers to middle- and working-class access to a lawyer?
Are lawyers generally fulfilled and “happy” in the practice of law?
Discuss the challenges confronting African American lawyers.
Outline the barriers confronting female lawyers and the reasons they have not achieved equal status in law firms with male lawyers.
What are the professional responsibilities of government lawyers and of in-house counsel?
Discuss the characteristics, organization, and function of large corporate law firms. How do corporate lawyers differ from solo practitioners and small firm lawyers?
What are the characteristics of solo practitioners and small firm lawyers?
Outline the development of the American legal profession in the early and middle years.
Trace the development of the legal profession from Athens through Rome and in England.
Discuss the development of the modern police.
Outline the function and importance of administrative agencies.
Discuss the function of the legislative branch of government and the structure of the U.S. Congress. What is the role of interest groups and lobbyists in the legislative process?
How do judges decide cases?
Describe the structure and function of state courts and the selection process of state court judges.
What are the arguments for and against judicial review?
Are Supreme Court judges selected from a cross section of the population? Does the United States need a more diverse Supreme Court?
Describe the organization and function of federal district courts, courts of appeals, and the Supreme Court.
What is the significance of the concept of justiciability? Define mootness, exhaustion, standing, the political question doctrine, ripeness, and collusion.
Discuss the dual court system in the United States and the relationship between the federal and state court systems.
Trace the development of the federal court system.
Which of the theoretical approaches discussed in the text most closely describes your view of the nature of law?
What is the unifying theme of feminist jurisprudence?
List the distinguishing characteristics of critical legal studies and critical race theory.
Summarize the underlying philosophy of libertarianism.
What is legal behavioralism? How does this relate to legal realism and sociological jurisprudence?
Explain how “cultural law” views the relationship between law and culture.
How do functionalists view the role of law?
Summarize the contribution of legal realism and sociological jurisprudence to law and society. How do these approaches differ from legal positivism?
Briefly summarize the contributions to law and society of Karl Marx, Émile Durkheim, and Max Weber.
Explain the thinking of Henry Maine.
How would a utilitarian analyze the desirability of a law providing for the euthanasia of older individuals who have a limited life expectancy and whose medical treatment is paid for by federal funds? How would an approach based on the categorical imperative differ?
Compare and contrast natural law and legal positivism. How would these two theories differ in their approach to a state statute authorizing the death penalty for atrocious and cruel acts of murder?

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