When law fails
Subtitle: making sense of miscarriages of justice / edited by Charles J. Ogletree, Jr. and Austin Sarat.
Contributors: Ogletree, Charles J.; Sarat, Austin.
Series: Charles Hamilton Houston Institute series on race and justice
Publisher: New York University Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 349
ISBN-13: 9780814740514; 9780814740521
Subjects: Justice, Administration of -- United States
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Miscarriages of justice and constructions of American identity / Mary L. Dudziak; title: When law fails : history, genius, and unhealed wounds after Tulsa's race riots / Charles J. Ogletree, Jr.; title: Margins of error / Robert Weisberg; title: Recovering the craft of policing : wrongful convictions, the war on crime, and the problem; title: Of security / Jonathan Simon; title: Kalven and Zeisel fifty years later : is the jury still the defendant's friend? / Daniel Givelber; title: Extreme punishment / Douglas A. Berman; title: Miscarriages of mercy? / Linda Ross Meyer; title: Memorializing miscarriages of justice : clemency petitions in the killing state / Austin Sarat; title: Miscarriage of justice as misnomer / Markus D. Dubber; title: The scale of injustice / Patricia Wick.