COPING WITH JUSTICE
In 1922, Roscoe Pound and Felix Frankfurter urged that the criminal justice system be judged not "the occasional dra- matic case but by its normal humdrum operations."
The American public has generally ignored this advice.
In their choice of television shows, tabloid newspapers, pop- ular fiction, and political rhetoric, Americans are drawn to the most fanciful, gruesome, bizarre, or self-serving portrayals of criminal justice. Public attention goes to the Juan...