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The collapse of American criminal justice
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The collapse of American criminal justice [electronic resource] / William J. Stuntz.
ISBN
9780674051751 (hbk. : alk. paper)
0674051750 (hbk. : alk. paper)
9780674062603 (e-book)
Published
Cambridge, Mass. : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, c2011.
Physical Description
viii, 413 p.
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Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2013. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.
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Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
July 09, 2013
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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
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