Abstract
This study explores the professional values and practices of small-town lawyers, focusing on the associations between social and professional background, attitudes toward criminal defendants and criminal justice policy, and lawyers' involvement in criminal defense work. Most studies of lawyers' professional choices, particularly those of criminal defense specialists, have been conducted in urban bars, where specialization is more typical than general practice. The present study refines hypotheses from previous studies and applies them in small-town settings. The results suggest, first, that lawyers' attitudes toward criminal defense work are multidimensional, second, that these attitudes are only weakly related to lawyers' social and professional backgrounds, third, that concentration in criminal defense work is associated with practice settings, not with lawyers' personal characteristics, and, fourth, that attitudes about criminal defendants and criminal justice policy are significantly associated with the choice to specialize in criminal defense work.
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