The collapse of American criminal justice / William J. Stuntz.

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Cambridge, Mass. : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2011.

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1st edition

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80730

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Crime prevention -- United States.

Criminal justice, Administration of -- United States.

United States -- Race relations.

Contents:

Introduction: the rule of too much law

I. Crime and punishment

1. Two migrations

2. "The wolf by the ear"

II. The past

3. Ideals and institutions

4. The Fourteenth Amendment's failed promise

5. Criminal justice in the gilded age

6. A culture war and its aftermath

7. Constitutional law's rise : three roads not taken

8. Earl Warren's errors

9. The rise and fall of crime, the fall and rise of criminal punishment

III. The future

10. Fixing a broken system.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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9780674051751

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viii, 413 p. : ill. ; 24 cm