"Now in its tenth edition, Walker & Walker's English Legal System has a well-earned reputation as an authoritative and reliable textbook. It provides a clear and detailed explanation of the main principles, rules, and issues surrounding the English legal system, and is a valuable point of learning and reference for students."--BOOK JACKET.

Walker and Walker's English Legal System is long established as the standard text in this area, providing the first and last point of reference for students who need a clear understanding of this vital subject. Changes to and within the English Legal System since the last edition have been considerable, the pace of change often being frantic. The new edition reflects these changes, whilst providing a clear and concise exposition of the main principles, rules and issues involved.

In the second edition of this popular book, the author has thoroughly updated his analysis of the history of American criminal justice, exploring the tension between popular passions and the rule of law. Surveying the topic from the colonial era to the present day, Walker examines changing patterns in criminal activity, the institutional development of the system of criminal justice, and the major issues concerning the administration of justice. Comprehensive and concise, this book is the best single volume treatment of American criminal justice.

Intended for students preparing for degree, Bar and Law Society examinations, this volume serves as a reference to most aspects of the English legal system.

"Indefinite is the first major ethnographic study of American jails since the advent of racialized mass incarceration. The author was confined in a southern California county jail system during which time, he conducted what he calls an organic ethnography of jail life. The resulting study is an investigation of the vagaries of jail living, the relationship between custodial deputies and penal residents, the endurance strategies residents employed to protect their emotional selves from being overwhelmed by the nature of jail punishment, and consequences of extremes of vulnerability, uncertainty, and penal time. Indefinite toggles between what is peculiar to jail time and what is familiar in broader social life to develop general concepts, sensitizing schemes, and theories about social life that expand beyond the specifics of jail without reducing jail to a mere case study"--