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Within the criminal justice system, the court system plays a core role, serving as the link between law enforcement and corrections and as a check on the state’s power over citizens. In civil justice, we rely on courts to adjudicate disputes and serve as a venue for negotiation and resolution of iss...

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Published inFostering Innovation in the U.S. Court System p. 1
Main Authors Brian A. Jackson, Duren Banks, John S. Hollywood, Dulani Woods, Amanda Royal, Patrick W. Woodson, Nicole J. Johnson
Format Book Chapter
LanguageEnglish
Published RAND Corporation 10.05.2016
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Administrative courts
Applied sciences
Applied sociology
Behavioral sciences
Business
Business engineering
Business innovation
Courts of law
Criminal justice
Criminal law
Education
Educational innovation
Educational methods
Formal education
Government
Judicial system
Law
Pedagogy
Political science
Public administration
Public policy
Social innovation
Sociology
Technological change
Technological innovation
Technology
Technology policy
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Summary:Within the criminal justice system, the court system plays a core role, serving as the link between law enforcement and corrections and as a check on the state’s power over citizens. In civil justice, we rely on courts to adjudicate disputes and serve as a venue for negotiation and resolution of issues, varying from resolving disagreement over the details of contracts to establishing and compensating individual or collective harms. Although much of the public thinks of trials as the centerpiece of the court system (thanks, in part, to television crime shows), the reality is that much of the business of
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