The American Criminal Justice System: How It Works, How It Doesn't, and How to Fix It - Couverture rigide

Falk, Gerhard

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0313383472 ISBN 13 : 9780313383472

Editeur : Praeger Publishers Inc, 2010

Synopsis

This critical yet honest appraisal of our criminal justice system addresses its strengths and its flaws ― and makes recommendations for improvement.
The American Criminal Justice System: How It Works, How It Doesn't, and How to Fix It calls attention to a criminal justice system that needs improvement. Author Gerhard Falk shows that the police themselves often violate the law; that prosecutors send innocent citizens to prison and even to death row; that defense attorneys take on cases they are not prepared to handle; that juries vote guilt or innocence on the basis of emotion, not facts; that judges are often failed attorneys or unscrupulous politicians; and that jails and prisons are too frequently warehouses of the poor.

As background for his analysis, Falk discusses the history of the police, prosecutors, defense attorneys, and judges, as well as the history of prisons and the prison industrial complex." He also offers a devastating analysis of the death penalty and its practitioners. The book ends with recommendations for the improvement of our criminal justice system so that America can truly be, as our Supreme Court proclaims, a land of "Equal Justice under Law.""

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Gerhard Falk, PhD, is professor of sociology at the State University of New York, College at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Praeger Publishers Inc
• Date d'édition: 2010
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0313383472
• ISBN 13: 9780313383472
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 260
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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