Circu$ Court$
Subtitle: How Racism and Greed Poisoned the American Legal System, and What You Can Do About It
Publisher: Sheryl Weikal
Published: 2024-01-01
Language: eng
Format: eBook
Number of pages: 279
Other titles: Circus Courts
First sentence: In Chicago, Illinois, most state circuit court proceedings are held at the Richard J. Daley center, a giant building that looks less like a courthouse than it does a high rise office tower from a 1980s sitcom.
Table of contents: title: Preface; title: Introduction; label: Chapter One
title: Evictions, Foreclosures, and the For-Profit Homelessness Mill; label: Chapter Two
title: Police, Prosecutors, and Slavery Across Generations; label: Chapter Three
title: Show Me the Money: Court Fees and Buying Access; label: Chapter Four
title: Rules of Procedure and the Lie of Scientific Objectivity; label: Chapter Five
title: Judges, Bias, and the Myth of the Black Box; label: Chapter Six
title: The Gatekeepers and the Bar Exam, or How the System Protects Itself; title: Conclusion; title: Gratitude