Twenty Million Angry Men : The Case for Including Convicted Felons in Our Jury System /
Today, all but one U.S. jurisdiction restricts a convicted felon's eligibility for jury service. Are there valid, legal reasons for banishing millions of Americans from the jury process? How do felon-juror exclusion statutes impact convicted felons, jury systems, and jurisdictions that impose t...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Berkeley, CA :
University of California Press,
[2021]
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Tabla de Contenidos:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- One Framing the Issue
- Two Rotten to the Core?
- Three Honor Among Thieves?
- Four Sequestering the Convicted: Part I
- Five Sequestering the Convicted: Part II
- Six Criminal-Desistance Summoned
- Seven A Community Change Agent
- Eight A Healthy Ambivalence
- Conclusion
- Epilogue
- Appendix a Felon-Juror Exclusion Policies by Jurisdiction
- Appendix b Convicted Felons' Access to the Legal Profession vs. Juror Eligibility
- Appendix c Juror Eligibility Criteria: Convicted Felons vs. Law Enforcement Personnel
- Notes
- References
- Index