The collapse of American criminal justice
By: William J. Stuntz
Publisher: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Cambridge, Mass
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
ISBN-13: 9780674051751
Subjects: Administration of Criminal justice; Race relations; Crime prevention
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: the rule of too much law; title: Crime and punishment; title: Two migrations; title: "The wolf by the ear"; title: The past; title: Ideals and institutions; title: The Fourteenth Amendment's failed promise; title: Criminal justice in the gilded age; title: A culture war and its aftermath; title: Constitutional law's rise, three roads not taken; title: Earl Warren's errors; title: The rise and fall of crime, the fall and rise of criminal punishment; title: The future; title: Fixing a broken system; title: Epilogue: taming the wolf; title: Note on sources and citation form.