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Justice abandoned : how the Supreme Court ignored the Constitution and enabled mass incarceration / Rachel Elise Barkow.

By: Material type: TextLanguage: English Publisher: Cambridge, Massachusetts, Harvard University Press, 2025Description: 311 pages ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780674294226 (cloth)
  • 067429422X (cloth)
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: Online version:: Justice abandonedDDC classification:
  • 345.73/0773
LOC classification:
  • KF 9728 B256j 2025
Contents:
Lowering the Bar for Pretrial Detention : United States v. Salerno Normalizing Coercive Plea Bargaining : Bordenkircher v. Hayes Upholding Disproportionate Sentences : Harmelin v. Michigan Tolerating Overcrowded Prisons : Rhodes v. Chapman Greenlighting Stop-and-Frisk : Terry v. Ohio Overlooking Pervasive Racial Bias : McCleskey v. Kemp
Summary: "Since the 1960s, the Supreme Court has enabled mass incarceration through rulings that violate constitutional curbs on pretrial detention, coercive plea bargaining, excessive sentences, and other forms of state overreach. Detailing their flaws, Rachel Barkow argues that a Court committed to constitutional rights must overturn these precedents"-- Provided by publisher.
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Item type Current library Home library Collection Shelving location Call number Copy number Status Barcode
Libro Biblioteca Juan Bosch Biblioteca Juan Bosch Ciencias Sociales Ciencias Sociales (3er. Piso) KF 9728 B256j 2025 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 00000190504

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Lowering the Bar for Pretrial Detention : United States v. Salerno
Normalizing Coercive Plea Bargaining : Bordenkircher v. Hayes
Upholding Disproportionate Sentences : Harmelin v. Michigan
Tolerating Overcrowded Prisons : Rhodes v. Chapman
Greenlighting Stop-and-Frisk : Terry v. Ohio
Overlooking Pervasive Racial Bias : McCleskey v. Kemp

"Since the 1960s, the Supreme Court has enabled mass incarceration through rulings that violate constitutional curbs on pretrial detention, coercive plea bargaining, excessive sentences, and other forms of state overreach. Detailing their flaws, Rachel Barkow argues that a Court committed to constitutional rights must overturn these precedents"-- Provided by publisher.

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