Dual Justice: America’s Divergent Approaches to Street and Corporate Crime - Couverture souple

Grasso, Anthony

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ISBN 10 : 0226835596 ISBN 13 : 9780226835594

Editeur : University of Chicago Press, 2024

Synopsis

A far-reaching examination of how America came to treat street and corporate crime so differently.

While America incarcerates its most marginalized citizens at an unparalleled rate, the nation has never developed the capacity to consistently prosecute corporate wrongdoing. Dual Justice unearths the intertwined histories of these two phenomena and reveals that they constitute more than just modern hypocrisy.

By examining the carceral and regulatory states’ evolutions from 1870 through today, Anthony Grasso shows that America’s divergent approaches to street and corporate crime share common, self-reinforcing origins. During the Progressive Era, scholars and lawmakers championed naturalized theories of human difference to justify instituting punitive measures for poor offenders and regulatory controls for corporate lawbreakers. These ideas laid the foundation for dual justice systems: criminal justice institutions harshly governing street crime and regulatory institutions governing corporate misconduct.

Since then, criminal justice and regulatory institutions have developed in tandem to reinforce politically constructed understandings about who counts as a criminal. Grasso analyzes the intellectual history, policy debates, and state and federal institutional reforms that consolidated these ideas, along with their racial and class biases, into America’s legal system.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Anthony Grasso is assistant professor of political science at Rutgers University, Camden. He studies American political development, law, criminal justice, and racial and class inequality.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: University of Chicago Press
• Date d'édition: 2024
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0226835596
• ISBN 13: 9780226835594
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 333
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