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?This volume is�the most comprehensive reference book on community sentiment available.�The classic book about community sentiment is Norm Finkel�s �Commonsense Justice: Jurors� Notions of the Law� (1995). A similarly influential book called �Justice, Liability, and Blame� was published at the same time, examining lay sentiment about a variety of criminal issues and suggesting ways in which the substantive criminal law could be reformed in light of such lay responses (Robinson & Darley, 1995). Although these books were influential and important for their time (and since), this Handbook�expands significantly on them, both by updating research since that time and broadens the scope of topic areas to ones that are not limited to trial and criminal justice issues.�Each chapter is original/unpublished and focuses on an area related to children/families, many of which are �hot topic� areas in the news and courts today. For instance, the U.S. Supreme Court decided a case in June 2012 about the constitutionality of �life without parole� for juvenile offenders�a topic discussed in the Fass and Miora chapter. Thus, it is�of interest to those interested in family law topics as well.?Typham this is the title: Handbook of Community Sentiment