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The Collapse of American Criminal Justice.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Cambridge : Harvard University Press, 2011Copyright date: ©2011Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (425 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780674062603
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: The Collapse of American Criminal JusticeDDC classification:
  • 364.40973
LOC classification:
  • HV7432
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- Contents -- Introduction: The Rule of Too Much Law -- I. Crime and Punishment -- 1. Two Migrations -- 2. "The Wolf by the Ear" -- II. The Past -- 3. Ideals and Institutions -- 4. The Fourteenth Amendment's Failed Promise -- 5. Criminal Justice in the Gilded Age -- 6. A Culture War and Its Aftermath -- 7. Constitutional Law's Rise: Three Roads Not Taken -- 8. Earl Warren's Errors -- 9. The Rise and Fall of Crime, the Fall and Rise of Criminal Punishment -- III. The Future -- 10. Fixing a Broken System -- Epilogue: Taming the Wolf -- Note on Sources and Citation Form -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- Index.
Summary: Rule of law has vanished in America's criminal justice system. Prosecutors decide whom to punish; most accused never face a jury; policing is inconsistent; plea bargaining is rampant; and draconian sentencing fills prisons with mostly minority defendants. A leading criminal law scholar looks to history for the roots of these problems--and solutions.
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Intro -- Contents -- Introduction: The Rule of Too Much Law -- I. Crime and Punishment -- 1. Two Migrations -- 2. "The Wolf by the Ear" -- II. The Past -- 3. Ideals and Institutions -- 4. The Fourteenth Amendment's Failed Promise -- 5. Criminal Justice in the Gilded Age -- 6. A Culture War and Its Aftermath -- 7. Constitutional Law's Rise: Three Roads Not Taken -- 8. Earl Warren's Errors -- 9. The Rise and Fall of Crime, the Fall and Rise of Criminal Punishment -- III. The Future -- 10. Fixing a Broken System -- Epilogue: Taming the Wolf -- Note on Sources and Citation Form -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- Index.

Rule of law has vanished in America's criminal justice system. Prosecutors decide whom to punish; most accused never face a jury; policing is inconsistent; plea bargaining is rampant; and draconian sentencing fills prisons with mostly minority defendants. A leading criminal law scholar looks to history for the roots of these problems--and solutions.

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