About Guilt and Innocence: The Origins, Development, and Future of Constitutional Criminal Procedure - Couverture rigide

Dripps, Donald A.

 
9780275977306: About Guilt and Innocence: The Origins, Development, and Future of Constitutional Criminal Procedure
Couverture rigide
ISBN 10 : 0275977307 ISBN 13 : 9780275977306
Editeur : Praeger Publishers Inc, 2002

Synopsis

This remarkably original and vital work argues that the problems are rooted in a disjunction between prevailing values and the prevailing doctrinal regime in constitutional law. Dripps asserts that the Fourteenth Amendment's more general standards of due process and equal protection encompass the values that ought to govern the criminal process.

Why does the American criminal justice system punish too many innocent people, failing to punish so many guilty parties and imposing a disproportionate burden on blacks? This remarkably original and vital work argues that the problems are rooted in a disjunction between prevailing values and the prevailing doctrinal regime in constitutional law. Dripps asserts that the Fourteenth Amendment's more general standards of due process and equal protection encompass the values that ought to govern the criminal process.

Criminal procedure ought to be about protecting the innocent, punishing the guilty, and doing equal justice. Modern legal doctrine, however, hinders these pursuits by concentrating on the specific procedural safeguards contained in the Bill of Rights. Dripps argues that a renewed focus on the Fourteenth Amendment would be more consistent than current law with both our values and with the legitimate sources of Constitutional law, and will promote the instrumental values the criminal process ought to serve. Legal and constitutional scholars will find his account of our criminal system's disarray compelling, and his argument as to how it may be reconstructed important and provoking.

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À propos de l?auteur

DONALD A. DRIPPS is the James Levee Professor of Law and Criminal Procedure at the University of Minnesota Law School.

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Éditeur
Praeger Publishers Inc
Date d'édition
2002
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0275977307
ISBN 13 
9780275977306
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
320
Coordonnées du fabricant
non disponible
Personne responsable
gpsr@libri.de
gpsr@libri.de

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