The collapse of American criminal justice [electronic resource] /
William J. Stuntz.
- Cambridge, Mass. : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, c2011.
- viii, 413 p.
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.
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
9780674062603 (electronic bk.)
Crime prevention--United States. Criminal justice, Administration of--United States.