Why the Innocent Plead Guilty and the Guilty Go Free - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Why the Innocent Plead Guilty and the Guilty Go Free write by Michael Leon Cook. This book was released on 2005. Why the Innocent Plead Guilty and the Guilty Go Free available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Deals with the effective brutality and injustice of the plea bargain system when many effective safeguards of criminal defense have been disabled or circumvented.
The Puzzle of Prison Order
The Puzzle of Prison Order - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Puzzle of Prison Order write by David Skarbek. This book was released on 2020. The Puzzle of Prison Order available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Many people think prisons are all the same-rows of cells filled with violent men who officials rule with an iron fist. Yet, life behind bars varies in incredible ways. In some facilities, prison officials govern with care and attention to prisoners' needs. In others, officials have remarkably little influence on the everyday life of prisoners, sometimes not even providing necessities like food and clean water. Why does prison social order around the world look so remarkably different? In The Puzzle of Prison Order, David Skarbek develops a theory of why prisons and prison life vary so much. He finds that how they're governed-sometimes by the state, and sometimes by the prisoners-matters the most. He investigates life in a wide array of prisons-in Brazil, Bolivia, Norway, a prisoner of war camp, England and Wales, women's prisons in California, and a gay and transgender housing unit in the Los Angeles County Jail-to understand the hierarchy of life on the inside. Drawing on economics and a vast empirical literature on legal systems, Skarbek offers a framework to not only understand why life on the inside varies in such fascinating and novel ways, but also how social order evolves and takes root behind bars.
Punishment Without Crime
Punishment Without Crime - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Punishment Without Crime write by Alexandra Natapoff. This book was released on 2018-12-31. Punishment Without Crime available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A revelatory account of the misdemeanor machine that unjustly brands millions of Americans as criminals. Punishment Without Crime offers an urgent new interpretation of inequality and injustice in America by examining the paradigmatic American offense: the lowly misdemeanor. Based on extensive original research, legal scholar Alexandra Natapoff reveals the inner workings of a massive petty offense system that produces over 13 million cases each year. People arrested for minor crimes are swept through courts where defendants often lack lawyers, judges process cases in mere minutes, and nearly everyone pleads guilty. This misdemeanor machine starts punishing people long before they are convicted; it punishes the innocent; and it punishes conduct that never should have been a crime. As a result, vast numbers of Americans -- most of them poor and people of color -- are stigmatized as criminals, impoverished through fines and fees, and stripped of drivers' licenses, jobs, and housing. For too long, misdemeanors have been ignored. But they are crucial to understanding our punitive criminal system and our widening economic and racial divides. A Publishers Weekly Best Book of 2018
The Bail Book
The Bail Book - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Bail Book write by Shima Baradaran Baughman. This book was released on 2018. The Bail Book available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Examines the causes for mass incarceration of Americans and calls for the reform of the bail system. Traces the history of bail, how it has come to be an oppressive tool of the courts, and makes recommendations for reforming the bail system and alleviating the mass incarceration problem.
When Should Law Forgive?
When Should Law Forgive? - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook When Should Law Forgive? write by Martha Minow. This book was released on 2019-09-24. When Should Law Forgive? available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. “Martha Minow is a voice of moral clarity: a lawyer arguing for forgiveness, a scholar arguing for evidence, a person arguing for compassion.” —Jill Lepore, author of These Truths In an age increasingly defined by accusation and resentment, Martha Minow makes an eloquent, deeply-researched argument in favor of strengthening the role of forgiveness in the administration of law. Through three case studies, Minow addresses such foundational issues as: Who has the right to forgive? Who should be forgiven? And under what terms? The result is as lucid as it is compassionate: A compelling study of the mechanisms of justice by one of this country’s foremost legal experts.
