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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...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Binnall, James M. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: 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