Whatever happened to justice?
Subtitle: how the guilty elude punishment
By: Joel Jacobsen.
Publisher: Kunati
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Clearwater Fla
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781601642691
Subjects: Criminal justice, Administration of -- United States; Victims of crimes -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- United States
Description: "A prosecutor argues that the US Supreme Court is primarily concerned with protecting the rights of defendants, while the right of citizens to be protected from violent crime, and for victims of violent crime to receive justice, is ignored or suppressed"--Provided by publisher.
Table of contents: title: Truth is the thing that happens to victims of violence; title: A world in which reality is optional; title: The conditional criminal law; title: The long civil war; title: Post-civil rights era syndrome; title: America's unfinished constitution; title: The big-picture politics of judging; title: Liberal or conservative?; title: The headless horseman; title: The way out : truth-based justice.