When Law Fails : Making Sense of Miscarriages of Justice / Austin Sarat; ed. by Charles J. Ogletree Jr.
Sarat, Austin, author.; Berman, Douglas A., contributor.; Dubber, Markus D., contributor.; Dudziak, Mary L., contributor.; Ewick, Patricia, contributor.; Givelber, Daniel, contributor.; Ogletree Jr., Charles J., editor.; Ogletree, Charles J., contributor.; Ross Meyer, Linda, contributor.; Sarat, Austin, contributor.; Simon, Jonathan, contributor.; Weisberg, Robert, contributor.
2009
KF8700 .W48 2009
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When Law Fails : Making Sense of Miscarriages of Justice / Austin Sarat; ed. by Charles J. Ogletree Jr.
Author
Sarat, Austin, author.
ISBN
9780814762554
Published
New York, NY : : New York University Press, [2009]
Copyright
©2009
Language
English
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In English.
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1 online resource
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10.18574/nyu/9780814762554.001.0001 doi
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KF8700 .W48 2009
Dewey Decimal Classification
347.73
Summary
Since 1989, there have been over 200 post-conviction DNA exonerations in the United States. On the surface, the release of innocent people from prison could be seen as a victory for the criminal justice system: the wrong person went to jail, but the mistake was fixed and the accused set free. A closer look at miscarriages of justice, however, reveals that such errors are not aberrations but deeply revealing, common features of our legal system.The ten original essays in When Law Fails view wrongful convictions not as random mistakes but as organic outcomes of a misshaped larger system that is rife with faulty eyewitness identifications, false confessions, biased juries, and racial discrimination. Distinguished legal thinkers Charles J. Ogletree, Jr., and Austin Sarat have assembled a stellar group of contributors who try to make sense of justice gone wrong and to answer urgent questions. Are miscarriages of justice systemic or symptomatic, or are they mostly idiosyncratic? What are the broader implications of justice gone awry for the ways we think about law? Are there ways of reconceptualizing legal missteps that are particularly useful or illuminating? These instructive essays both address the questions and point the way toward further discussion.When Law Fails reveals the dramatic consequences as well as the daily realities of breakdowns in the law's ability to deliver justice swiftly and fairly, and calls on us to look beyond headline-grabbing exonerations to see how failure is embedded in the legal system itself. Once we are able to recognize miscarriages of justice we will be able to begin to fix our broken legal system.Contributors: Douglas A. Berman, Markus D. Dubber, Mary L. Dudziak, Patricia Ewick, Daniel Givelber, Linda Ross Meyer, Charles J. Ogletree, Jr., Austin Sarat, Jonathan Simon, and Robert Weisberg.
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Berman, Douglas A., contributor.
Dubber, Markus D., contributor.
Dudziak, Mary L., contributor.
Ewick, Patricia, contributor.
Givelber, Daniel, contributor.
Ogletree Jr., Charles J., editor.
Ogletree, Charles J., contributor.
Ross Meyer, Linda, contributor.
Sarat, Austin, contributor.
Simon, Jonathan, contributor.
Weisberg, Robert, contributor.
Dubber, Markus D., contributor.
Dudziak, Mary L., contributor.
Ewick, Patricia, contributor.
Givelber, Daniel, contributor.
Ogletree Jr., Charles J., editor.
Ogletree, Charles J., contributor.
Ross Meyer, Linda, contributor.
Sarat, Austin, contributor.
Simon, Jonathan, contributor.
Weisberg, Robert, contributor.
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The Charles Hamilton Houston Institute Series on Race and Justice ; ; 3
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print 9780814740514
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Table of Contents
Frontmatter
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Part I. On the Meaning and Signifi cance of Miscarriages of Justice
Chapter 1. Th e Case of "Death for a Dollar Ninety-Five"
Chapter 2. When Law Fails
Chapter 3. Margins of Error
Part II. Miscarriages of Justice and Legal Processes
Chapter 4. Recovering the Craft of Policing
Chapter 5. Kalven and Zeisel in the Twenty-First Century
Chapter 6. Extreme Punishment
Chapter 7. Miscarriages of Mercy?
Chapter 8. Memorializing Miscarriages of Justice
Part III. Reconceptualizing Miscarriages of Justice
Chapter 9. Miscarriage of Justice as Misnomer
Chapter 10. The Scale of Injustice
Contributors
Index
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Part I. On the Meaning and Signifi cance of Miscarriages of Justice
Chapter 1. Th e Case of "Death for a Dollar Ninety-Five"
Chapter 2. When Law Fails
Chapter 3. Margins of Error
Part II. Miscarriages of Justice and Legal Processes
Chapter 4. Recovering the Craft of Policing
Chapter 5. Kalven and Zeisel in the Twenty-First Century
Chapter 6. Extreme Punishment
Chapter 7. Miscarriages of Mercy?
Chapter 8. Memorializing Miscarriages of Justice
Part III. Reconceptualizing Miscarriages of Justice
Chapter 9. Miscarriage of Justice as Misnomer
Chapter 10. The Scale of Injustice
Contributors
Index