American Injustice: Inside Stories from the Underbelly of the Criminal Justice System 9780062997371, 0062997378

Deadly Injustice: Trayvon Martin, Race, and the Criminal Justice System 1479873454, 978-1479873456

The murder of unarmed teenager Trayvon Martin and the subsequent trial and acquittal of his assailant, George Zimmerman,

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Battered Women Doing Time : Injustice in the Criminal Justice System [1 ed.] 9781626372924, 9781935049791

When is killing an abusive partner an act of murder, and when is it self-defense? How does our criminal justice system d

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Usual Cruelty: The Complicity of Lawyers in the Criminal Injustice System 9781620975275, 9781620975282

Usual Cruelty The Complicity of Lawyers in the Criminal Injustice System Alec Karakatsanis From an award-winning civil r

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The Innocent and the Criminal Justice System: A Sociological Analysis of Miscarriages of Justice 9781137341150, 1137341157

The Innocent and the Criminal Justice System examines competing perspectives on, and definitions of, miscarriages of jus

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The Collapse of American Criminal Justice 0674051750, 9780674051751

The rule of law has vanished in America's criminal justice system. Prosecutors now decide whom to punish and how se

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Injustice for All: How Financial Incentives Corrupted and Can Fix the US Criminal Justice System [1 ed.] 113833880X, 9781138338807

American criminal justice is a dysfunctional mess. Cops are too violent, the punishments are too punitive, and the so-ca

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Transforming Probation: Social Theories and the Criminal Justice System 9781447327684

Written by an established author in the field, this book explores the politics of modernisation and transformation of pr

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Intermediaries in the Criminal Justice System 9781447326069, 9781447326083, 9781447326090

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Drug Courts and the Criminal Justice System 9781626377332

Drug courts—a rare success story in the criminal justice system—are generally credited with reducing recidivism and prov

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After Homicide: Victims Families in the Criminal Justice System 9781626378452

In After Homicide, Sarah Goodrum examines the experiences of the families of murder victims as they encounter detectives

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