D.A.: Prosecutors in Their Own Words

by Mark Baker

Book Overview

From the bestselling author of "Cops" comes a riveting and often shocking inside look at the criminal justice system, as told by those who know it best--the district attorneys who prosecute crime in... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0684831562
• ISBN13: 9780684831565
• Release Date: June 1999
• Publisher: Simon & Schuster
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.3" x 9.5"

Customer Reviews

A Perspective Worth Reading

I am glad I did not let other customer reviews dissuade me from reading this excellent book on prosecutors. The editorial reviews are much more akin to my experience.

Like talking face to face

With movies and tv shows that center on courtrooms as popular as ever - and an entire cable channel devoted to trials on television - it is refreshing to get a picture of prosecutors by hearing their own words. Oral historian Mark Baker sums up the situation in his chapter openers, but refrains from editorializing. Instead, he lets the prosecutors - and sometimes judges and defense attorneys - lay it all out for you by pretty honestly talking about themselves and what they do for a living. The various voices have the ring of truth about them. Some seem pretty impressed with themselves, while others ackowledge that the job of dealing with a constant stream of criminals lacks any form of glamour. Most, however, seem to be somewhere in the middle, and it is interesting to get a picture of people in this profession that shows them to be like someone you and I might actually know.