Collapse of American criminal justice

Stuntz, William J

Collapse of American criminal justice - Cambridge Belknap Press of Harvard University Press 2011 - viii,413 p. 24 cm.

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.

9780674051751


Crime prevention--United States.
Criminal justice, Administration of--United States.


United States--Race relations.

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