DEBRA EMMELMAN Sociology
BOOKS:
Justice for the Poor: A Study of Criminal Defense Work, published in the Law, Justice and Power series edited by Austin Sarat, Ashgate Publishing: London and Burlington, VT: 2003.
JOURNAL ARTICLES:
“College Students’ Perceptions of Their ‘Best’ and ‘Worst’ Courses and Instructors”, with Michael DeCesare. International Review of Modern Sociology, forthcoming for the Spring 2008 or Fall 2007.
Gauging the Strength of Evidence Prior to Plea Bargaining: The Interpretive Procedures of Court – Appointment Defense Attorneys”. Law and Social Inquiry, 22 (1997).
Scheduled to be reprinted in the International Library of Essays in Law and Society; specifically, the volume entitled “Prosecutors and Prosecution”, edited by Lisa Frohmann. Ashgate Publishing Limited.
"Trial by Plea Bargain: Case Settlement as a Component of Recursive Decision-making." Law and Society Review 30 (1996).
Reprinted in Consequences:
Reprinted in Qualitative Approaches to Criminal Justice: Perspectives from the Field, Mark Pogrebin, Editor, Sage Publications, 2002.
Reprinted as "Trial by Plea Bargain" in Criminal Justice Systems: Politics and Policies, 7th Edition, George F. Cole and Marc G. Gertz, eds., Wadsworth Publishing Co., 1998
"The Effect of Social Class on the Adjudication of Criminal Cases: Class-Linked Behavior Tendencies, Common Sense and the Interpretive Procedures of Court-Appointed Defense Attorneys." Symbolic Interaction 17 (1994).
Reprinted in Qualitative Approaches to Criminal Justice: Perspectives from the Field, Mark Pogrebin, Editor, Sage Publications, 2002.
"Organizational Conditions that Facilitate an Ethical Defense Posture Among Attorneys for the Poor: Observations of a Private, Nonprofit Corporation." Criminal Justice Review 18 (1993).
CHAPTERS AND ENTRIES:
“Legal
Aid, Criminal” Entry
solicited for publication in Encyclopedia of Law and Society: American and Global Perspectives, David
S. Clark, Editor. Forthcoming
2005.
"Defending The Poor: Commonsense Class-ism in The Adjudication of Criminal Cases, in For the Common Good, Robin Miller and Sandra Lee Browning, editors, Carolina Academic Press, Durham, NC: 2003.
BOOK REVIEWS:
“The Sense of
Justice: Empathy In
Law And Punishment” by Markus Dirk Dubber. Law and Politics Book Review. Feb. 2007, Vol. 17 No. 2.
Racial Issues in Criminal Justice: The
Case of African Americans” edited by Marvin D. Free, Jr. Law and Politics Book Review, An Electronic
Periodical Published by The Law and Courts Section, The American Political
Science Association; Vol. 15 No.3 (March 2005). www.bsos.umd.edu/gvpt/lpbr
Crime, Shame and Reintegration by John Braithwaite, 1989, in Deviant Behavior (September 1990).
OTHER PUBLICATIONS:
"A Response to Donald Black's "The Lawyerization of Legal Sociology'". Amici, Newsletter of the Law and Society Section of the American Sociological Association, Vol. 5, 2, Spring, 1998
“Musings of an Idealist on Legal Negotiations”. Amici, Newsletter of the Law and Society Section of the American Sociological Association, Vol. 4, 2, Spring, 1997.
CONFERENCE PAPERS ORALLY DELIVERED:
“Past, Present, and Future: Research on Advocacy for Criminal Defendants.” Presented at New Directions in Criminal Court
Research, Taubenshlag Conference,
Class, Identity and Legal Consciousness, Law
and Society Meetings,
"Students' Expectations of College Courses,"
with Michael Decesare. Eastern
Sociological Society Meetings,
"The Influence of Social Class on Formal Litigation Hearings: A 'Commonsense' Approach." Society for the Study of Social Problems, NY, August 1996.
"Weighing the Evidence in Criminal Cases: The
Practices of a Private Corporation of Court-Appointed Defense Attorneys."
Society for the Study of Social Problems,
"Adversarialness, Plea Bargaining and the
Procedures of a Private Corporation of Court-Appointed Attorneys." Midwest
Sociological Society Meetings,
"The Cultural Components of Substance Abuse in
"The Influence of Social Class on the Adjudication of Criminal Cases: A
Case Study of Publicly Provided Defense Attorneys." Midwest Sociological
Society Meetings,
"Defense
"The Use of Gender Stereotypes in Criminal Defense
Work." American Sociological Association,
ORGANIZER, PRESIDER AND/OR DISCUSSANT:
Discussant, Prosecution and Defense, Law and Society Meetings,
Moderator, The Death Penalty: Sacco and Vanzetti’s Legacy, featuring former Governor Michael Dukakis as a guest speaker, SCSU University Forum, October 16, 2002.
Discussant, "Criminology - II," Eastern
Sociological Society Meetings,
Discussant, "Criminology in the 1990s: Answers and
Solutions," Midwest Sociological Society
Meetings,
Presider, "Social Problems: The Quality
of Everyday Life," Midwest Sociological Society Meetings,
Organizer and presider of the session entitled
"The Cultural Components of Substance Abuse" at the Region VI Drug
Abuse Prevention Conference in
OTHER PRESENTATIONS:
"Women in Prison: An Academic Perspective." Presentation
at the State Conference for the National Organization of Women,
"The `Commonsense' Causes of Discrimination in the
Adjudication of Criminal Cases." Presentation to the American
Association of University Women,
RECENT GRANTS RECEIVED:
CSU-AAUP Summer Research Grant. Summer 2007. $3479.
CSU-AAUP Summer Research Grant. Summer 2006. $4800.
Sabbatical, Fall `00.
RESEARCH INTERESTS IN GENERAL:
Law; Deviance; Crime and the Criminal Justice System; Social Inequality; Qualitative Research Methods
CURRENT RESEARCH:
Compliance With Water Pollution Control in the
Food Service Industry: An Ethnographic Study on Environmental Law
Enforcement
DISSERTATION TITLE:
Defending Indigents: A Study of Criminal Defense Work
INSTITUTION GRANTING PH.D.: