LEADER 05387nam 2200949 a 450 001 9910813639503321 005 20240516125051.0 010 $a0-8147-6255-7 010 $a0-8147-6225-5 024 7 $a10.18574/9780814762554 035 $a(CKB)2440000000014038 035 $a(EBL)865732 035 $a(OCoLC)779828223 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000488386 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11360593 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000488386 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10450508 035 $a(PQKB)11668254 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC865732 035 $a(OCoLC)647699976 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse10570 035 $a(DE-B1597)547505 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780814762554 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL865732 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10289883 035 $a(OCoLC)1125925161 035 $a(EXLCZ)992440000000014038 100 $a20080717d2009 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 00$aWhen law fails$b[electronic resource] $emaking sense of miscarriages of justice /$fedited by Charles J. Ogletree, Jr. and Austin Sarat 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aNew York $cNew York University Press$dc2009 215 $a1 online resource (360 p.) 225 1 $aThe Charles Hamilton Houston Institute series on race and justice 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-8147-4052-9 311 $a0-8147-4051-0 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aThe case of "Death for a dollar ninety-five" : miscarriages of justice and constructions of American identity / Mary L. Dudziak -- When law fails : history, genius, and unhealed wounds after Tulsa's race riot / Charles J. Ogletree, Jr. -- Margins of error / Robert Weisberg -- Recovering the craft of policing : wrongful convictions, the war on crime, and the problem of security / Jonathan Simon -- Kalven and Zeisel in the twenty-first century : is the jury still the defendant's friend? / Daniel Givelber -- Extreme punishment / Douglas A. Berman -- Miscarriages of mercy? / Linda Ross Meyer -- Memorializing miscarriages of justice : clemency petitions in the killing state / Austin Sarat -- Miscarriage of justice as misnomer / Markus D. Dubber -- The scale of injustice / Patricia Ewick. 330 $aSince 1989, there have been over 200 post-conviction DNA exonerations in the United States. On the surface, the release of innocent people from prison could be seen as a victory for the criminal justice system: the wrong person went to jail, but the mistake was fixed and the accused set free. A closer look at miscarriages of justice, however, reveals that such errors are not aberrations but deeply revealing, common features of our legal system. The ten original essays in When Law Fails view wrongful convictions not as random mistakes but as organic outcomes of a misshaped larger system that is rife with faulty eyewitness identifications, false confessions, biased juries, and racial discrimination. Distinguished legal thinkers Charles J. Ogletree, Jr., and Austin Sarat have assembled a stellar group of contributors who try to make sense of justice gone wrong and to answer urgent questions. Are miscarriages of justice systemic or symptomatic, or are they mostly idiosyncratic? What are the broader implications of justice gone awry for the ways we think about law? Are there ways of reconceptualizing legal missteps that are particularly useful or illuminating? These instructive essays both address the questions and point the way toward further discussion.When Law Fails reveals the dramatic consequences as well as the daily realities of breakdowns in the law?s ability to deliver justice swiftly and fairly, and calls on us to look beyond headline-grabbing exonerations to see how failure is embedded in the legal system itself. Once we are able to recognize miscarriages of justice we will be able to begin to fix our broken legal system. Contributors: Douglas A. Berman, Markus D. Dubber, Mary L. Dudziak, Patricia Ewick, Daniel Givelber, Linda Ross Meyer, Charles J. Ogletree, Jr., Austin Sarat, Jonathan Simon, and Robert Weisberg. 410 0$aCharles Hamilton Houston Institute series on race and justice. 606 $aJustice, Administration of$zUnited States 610 $aReveals. 610 $aability. 610 $abeyond. 610 $abreakdowns. 610 $acalls. 610 $aconsequences. 610 $adaily. 610 $adeliver. 610 $adramatic. 610 $aembedded. 610 $aexonerations. 610 $afailure. 610 $afairly. 610 $aheadline-grabbing. 610 $aitself. 610 $ajustice. 610 $alaws. 610 $alegal. 610 $alook. 610 $arealities. 610 $aswiftly. 610 $asystem. 610 $awell. 615 0$aJustice, Administration of 676 $a347.73 700 $aSarat$b Austin$4aut$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut$0254475 701 $aOgletree$b Charles J.$cJr.,$f1952-2023.$01609626 701 $aSarat$b Austin$0254475 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910813639503321 996 $aWhen law fails$94082599 997 $aUNINA 999 $p$133.88$u06/17/2016$5Dis