The collapse of American criminal justice /

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The rule of law has vanished in America's criminal justice system. Prosecutors now decide whom to punish and how severely. Almost no one accused of a crime will ever face a jury. Inconsistent policing, rampant plea bargaining, overcrowded courtrooms, and ever more draconian sentencing have prod...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Stuntz, William J. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge, Mass. : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2011.
Temas:
Geschichte.
Crime prevention > United States.
Criminal justice, Administration of > United States.
Justice pénale > Administration > États-Unis.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Criminology.
LAW > Criminal Procedure.
Crime prevention
Criminal justice, Administration of
Race relations
Ethnische Beziehungen
Strafjustiz
United States > Race relations.
États-Unis > Relations raciales.
United States
USA
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: the rule of too much law
  • Crime and punishment
  • Two migrations
  • "The wolf by the ear"
  • The past
  • Ideals and institutions
  • The Fourteenth Amendment's failed promise
  • Criminal justice in the gilded age
  • A culture war and its aftermath
  • Constitutional law's rise, three roads not taken
  • Earl Warren's errors
  • The rise and fall of crime, the fall and rise of criminal punishment
  • The future
  • Fixing a broken system
  • Epilogue: taming the wolf
  • Note on sources and citation form.

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