000436125 000__ 03652cam\a2200445Ka\4500 000436125 001__ 436125 000436125 005__ 20220525092529.0 000436125 006__ m\\\\\o\\d\\\\\\\\ 000436125 007__ cr\cn\nnnunnun 000436125 008__ 120410s2011\\\\mau\\\\\ob\\\\001\0\eng\d 000436125 020__ $$a9780674062603$$q(electronic book) 000436125 020__ $$a0674062604$$q(electronic book.) 000436125 020__ $$z9780674051751 000436125 020__ $$z0674051750 000436125 035__ $$a(OCoLC)ocn775441750 000436125 035__ $$a(CaPaEBR)ebr10662188 000436125 035__ $$a(MiAaPQ)EBC3301230 000436125 035__ $$a436125 000436125 040__ $$aN$T$$cN$T$$dYDXCP 000436125 043__ $$an-us--- 000436125 049__ $$aISEA 000436125 050_4 $$aHV7432$$b.S78 2011eb 000436125 08204 $$a364.40973$$222 000436125 1001_ $$aStuntz, William J. 000436125 24514 $$aThe collapse of American criminal justice$$h[electronic resource] /$$cWilliam J. Stuntz. 000436125 260__ $$aCambridge, Mass. :$$bBelknap Press of Harvard University Press,$$cc2011. 000436125 300__ $$a1 online resource (viii, 413 p.) 000436125 504__ $$aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 000436125 5050_ $$aIntroduction: the rule of too much law -- Crime and punishment -- Two migrations -- "The wolf by the ear" -- The past -- Ideals and institutions -- The Fourteenth Amendment's failed promise -- Criminal justice in the gilded age -- A culture war and its aftermath -- Constitutional law's rise, three roads not taken -- Earl Warren's errors -- The rise and fall of crime, the fall and rise of criminal punishment -- The future -- Fixing a broken system -- Epilogue: taming the wolf -- Note on sources and citation form. 000436125 506__ $$aAccess limited to authorized users. 000436125 520__ $$aThe rule of law has vanished in America's criminal justice system. Prosecutors now decide whom to punish and how severely. Almost no one accused of a crime will ever face a jury. Inconsistent policing, rampant plea bargaining, overcrowded courtrooms, and ever more draconian sentencing have produced a gigantic prison population, with black citizens the primary defendants and victims of crime. In this passionately argued book, the leading criminal law scholar of his generation looks to history for the roots of these problems -- and for their solutions. The Collapse of American Criminal Justice takes us deep into the dramatic history of American crime -- bar fights in nineteenth-century Chicago, New Orleans bordellos, Prohibition, and decades of murderous lynching. Digging into these crimes and the strategies that attempted to control them, Stuntz reveals the costs of abandoning local democratic control. The system has become more centralized, with state legislators and federal judges given increasing power. The liberal Warren Supreme Court's emphasis on procedures, not equity, joined hands with conservative insistence on severe punishment to create a system that is both harsh and ineffective. What would get us out of this Kafkaesque world? More trials with local juries; laws that accurately define what prosecutors seek to punish; and an equal protection guarantee like the one that died in the 1870s, to make prosecution and punishment less discriminatory. Above all, Stuntz eloquently argues, Americans need to remember again that criminal punishment is a necessary but terrible tool, to use effectively, and sparingly. - Publisher. 000436125 588__ $$aDescription based on print version record. 000436125 650_0 $$aCrime prevention$$zUnited States. 000436125 650_0 $$aCriminal justice, Administration of$$zUnited States. 000436125 651_0 $$aUnited States$$xRace relations. 000436125 77608 $$iPrint version:$$aStuntz, William J.$$tCollapse of American criminal justice.$$dCambridge, Mass. : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, c2011$$z9780674051751$$w(DLC) 2011006905$$w(OCoLC)703623706 000436125 8520_ $$bacq 000436125 85280 $$bebk$$hEBSCOhost 000436125 85640 $$3eBooks on EBSCOhost$$uhttps://univsouthin.idm.oclc.org/login?url=http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=414100$$zOnline Access 000436125 909CO $$ooai:library.usi.edu:436125$$pGLOBAL_SET 000436125 980__ $$aEBOOK 000436125 980__ $$aBIB 000436125 982__ $$aEbook 000436125 983__ $$aOnline