Law and Data: The Butterfly Ballot Episode
- 1 March 2001
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in PS: Political Science and Politics
- Vol. 34 (01) , 59-69
- https://doi.org/10.1017/s1049096501000099
Abstract
On television's Law and Order, the police catch criminals and hand them over to the lawyers to get convictions. Part of the program's dramatic tension comes from the police operating under the scrutiny of a rigid and unforgiving legal system. The suspense increases as the lawyers try to do their job even though there is often a gap between justice and what the law requires.Keywords
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