How Can You Represent Those People? [electronic resource] /
Smith, A.editor.
Freedman, M.editor.
How Can You Represent Those People? is the first-ever collection of essays offering a response to the 'Cocktail Party Question' asked of every criminal lawyer. A must-read for anyone interested in race, poverty, crime, punishment, and what makes lawyers tick.
Includes index.
How Can You Represent Those People? is the first-ever collection of essays offering a response to the 'Cocktail Party Question' asked of every criminal lawyer. A must-read for anyone interested in race, poverty, crime, punishment, and what makes lawyers tick.
Barbara Babcock, "defending the guilty" after thirty years -- Paul Butler, how can you prosecute those people? -- Tucker Carrington, how can you defend those people? -- Angela J. Davis, there but for the grace of God go I -- Alan M. Dershowitz, why I defend the guilty and innocent alike -- Monroe H. Freedman, why it's essential to represent "those people" -- Vida Johnson, defending civil rights -- Joseph Margulies, ruminations on them and us -- William R. Montross, Jr. & Meghan Shapiro, wrecking life : when the state seeks to kill -- Ann Roan, "those people" are us -- David A. Singleton, representing sex offenders -- Abbe Smith, how can you not defend those people? -- Robin Steinberg, fair play -- Michael E. Tigar, defending...still -- Alice Woolley, not only in America : the necessity of representing "those people" in a free and democratic society.
Criminology.
Crime-Sociological aspects.
Poverty.
Ethnicity.
Law.
Social structure.
Social inequality.
Criminology and Criminal Justice, general.
Crime and Society.
Development Aid.
Ethnicity Studies.
Law, general.
Social Structure, Social Inequality.