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Record Nr.

UNINA9910461752703321

Autore

Stuntz William J

Titolo

The collapse of American criminal justice [[electronic resource] /] / William J. Stuntz

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge, Mass., : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, c2011

ISBN

0-674-06260-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (425 p.)

Disciplina

364.40973

Soggetti

Crime prevention - United States

Criminal justice, Administration of - United States

Electronic books.

United States Race relations

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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.