TY  - BOOK
AU  - Stuntz,William J.
TI  - The collapse of American criminal justice
SN  - 9780674051751 (hbk. : alk. paper)
AV  - HV 7432 S934c 2011
U1  - 364.40973 
PY  - 2011///
CY  - Cambridge, Mass.
PB  - Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
KW  - Crime prevention
KW  - United States
KW  - Prevención del delito
KW  - Estados Unidos
KW  - Criminal justice, Administration of
KW  - Administración de justicia penal
KW  - Race relations
KW  - Relaciones raciales
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; 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
N2  - Rule of law has vanished in America's criminal justice system. Prosecutors decide whom to punish; most accused never face a jury; policing is inconsistent; plea bargaining is rampant; and draconian sentencing fills prisons with mostly minority defendants. The author looks to history for the roots of these problems - and solutions
ER  -