Collapse of American Criminal Justice

Name: Collapse of American Criminal Justice
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ISBN: 9780674725874

ISBN-10: 0674725875

ISBN-13: 9780674725874

Edition: 2013

Authors: William J. Stuntz

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This title takes us deep into the dramatic history of American crime - bar fights in 19th-century Chicago, New Orleans bordellos, prohibition, and decades of murderous lynching.

Book details

List price: $26.00
Copyright year: 2013
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Publication date: 10/7/2013
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 432
Size: 6.13" wide x 9.25" long x 1.16" tall
Weight: 1.034
Language: English

William J. Stuntz was Henry J. Friendly Professor of Law at Harvard University.



Introduction: 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


Notes


Acknowledgments


Index