The collapse of American criminal justice [electronic resource] / William J. Stuntz.
Material type: TextPublication details: Cambridge, Mass. : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, c2011.Description: viii, 413 pSubject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:- 364.40973 22
- HV7432 .S78 2011
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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.
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.