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When Law Fails Making Sense of Miscarriages of Justice

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ISBN-10: 0814740529

ISBN-13: 9780814740521

Edition: 2009

Authors: Charles J. Ogletree Jr., Austin Sarat, Charles J. Ogletree

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The notion . . . that miscarriages of justice are not simply idiosyncratic instances, but are rather part of the ordinary machinery of law, is a crucial insight, one that deserves this kind of book-length treatment. --James MaMartell, author of Subverting the Leviathan: Reading Thomas Hobbes as a Radical Democrat 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…    
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Book details

List price: $32.00
Copyright year: 2009
Publisher: New York University Press
Publication date: 1/1/2009
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 360
Size: 7.40" wide x 8.94" long x 0.91" tall
Weight: 1.056
Language: English

Charles J. Ogletree, Jr. is the Jesse Climenko Professor of Law and Executive Director of the Charles Hamilton Houston Institute for Race and Justice at Harvard Law School. He is the author of All Deliberate Speed: Reflections on the First Half-Century of Brown v. Board of Education (WW Norton and Company, 2004) and Co-Author of From Lynch Mobs to the Killing State: Race and the Death Penalty in America.

Austin Sarat is William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Jurisprudence & Political Science, Amherst College. Thomas R. Kearns is William H. Hastie Professor of Philosophy & Professor of Law, Jurisprudence, & Social Thought, Amherst College.

Acknowledgments
Introduction
On the Meaning and Significance of Miscarriages of Justice
The Case of "Death for a Dollar Ninety-Five": Miscarriages of Justice and Constructions of American Identity
When Law Fails: History, Genius, and Unhealed Wounds after Tulsa's Race Riot
Margins of Error
Miscarriages of Justice and Legal Processes
Recovering the Craft of Policing: Wrongful Convictions, the War on Crime, and the Problem of Security
Kalven and Zeisel in the Twenty-First Century: Is the Jury Still the Defendant's Friend?
Extreme Punishment
Miscarriages of Mercy?
Memorializing Miscarriages of Justice: Clemency Petitions in the Killing State
Reconceptualizing Miscarriages of Justice
Miscarriage of Justice as Misnomer
The Scale of Injustice
Contributors
Index