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The collapse of American criminal justice

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Main Author: Stuntz, William J.
Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, Mass. : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, c2011.
Subjects:
Crime prevention > United States.
Criminal justice, Administration of > United States.
United States > Race relations.
Electronic books.
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Table of Contents:
  • 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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