The collapse of American criminal justice [electronic resource] / William J. Stuntz.
Publication details: Cambridge, Mass. : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, c2011.Description: viii, 413 pISBN:- 9780674051751 (hbk. : alk. paper)
- 0674051750 (hbk. : alk. paper)
- 9780674062603 (e-book)
- 364.40973 22
- HV7432 .S78 2011eb
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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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