summary for every topic and please keep it in order so it'll be easy for me to keep up.

chapter 6

1. Types of Criminal Cases

2. Participants in Criminal courts

3. Criminal Courts and their environment

4. Formal Procedures

5. Court Procedures in Practice

6. Bringing cases to court

7. the police: making arrests

8. The prosecutor: charging decisions

9. Plea Bargaining

10. Forms of Plea Bargaining

11. The Bargaining Process

12. Explaining the prevalence of Plea Bargaining

13. Saving Time and Other Resources

14. Exceptions to the Dominance of Plea Bargaining

15. Attacks on Plea Bargaining

16. Criminal Cases

17. The Trial Process

18. The effectiveness of Trial Decision Making

19. Sentencing Decisions

20. Sentencing Systems

21. The Sentencing Process

22. Sentencing Choices: A first Look

23. Criteria for Sentences

24. Consistency in Sentencing

25. Sentencing Reform through New Systems

26. Changing the New Systems

Chapter 7

27. Trial Courts: Civil Cases

28. The Purposes of Civil Courts

29. Major Types of Civil Cases

30. Participants in Civil Courts

31. Judges

32. Attorneys

33. Parties

34. Other Participants

35. The basic system

36. Other Sets of Procedures

37. Deciding whether to litigate

38. Some type of litigation

39. Discrimination

40. Personal Injuries

41. The business World

42. The incidence of litigation

43. The disadvantage of litigation

44. When litigation is attractive

45. alternatives to litigation

46. the array of alternatives

47. Growth in the use of altenatives

48. paths to- and away from - the courts

49. government and litigation

50. litigation and american culture today

51. the litigation process

52. pretrial settlement and full trials: personal injuries

53. brief trials and defendant defaults: debt collection

54. court ratification of pretrial settlements: divorce

55. winners and losers

56. personal injuries

57. debt collection

58. divorce

Chapter 8

59. Appellate Courts: The process

60. The purpose of appeal

61. the business of appellate courts

62. the participants

63. law clerks

64. parties in appellate courts

65. the traditional system

66. alternative procedures

67. appeals

68. the decision to appeal

69. dissatisfaction with a decision

70. Chances of success

71. financial cost

72. appeals by government

73. political litigation

74. interest groups and classic political litigation

75. tactical political litigation

76. screening cases

77. discretionary jurisdiction

78. screening procedures

79.screening criteria

80. screening of mandatory cases

81. decision making

82. perspective on decision making

83. first level courts

84. second level courts

85. policy preferences

86. preferences, ideology and decisions

87. court policies court membership and the selection of judges

88. group processes

89. group processes in practice

90. influence of individual judges

91. interpersonal relationships

92. the courts environment

93. the legal environment

94. the political environment

Chapter 9

95. appellate courts: policy and impact

96. appellate court decision as policies

97. review of lower court decisions

98. appellate court agendas

99. ideological patterns in appellate court policy

100. judicial activism

101. thinking about activism

102. judicial activism today

103. the impact of appellate court policies

104. implementation by lower courts and administrators

105. attitudes toward policy

106. judicial authority

107. sanctions

108. responses by the legislative and executive branches

109. responding to statutory interpretations

110. influencing the implementation process

111. attacking the courts as institutions

112. the courts and the other branches: the general relationship

113. the impact of the courts on society

114. limits on the impact of courts

115. the status of women

116. the incidence of crime

117. impact that courts do have