The fear of too much justice : race, poverty, and the persistence of inequality in the criminal courts / Stephen B. Bright and James Kwak.
"Lawyer Stephen Bright and legal scholar James Kwak offer an overview of how the criminal legal system fails to live up to the values of equality and justice. The book ranges from poor people squeezed for cash by private probation companies because of trivial violations to people executed in vi...
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| 100 | 1 | |a Bright, Stephen B., |d 1948- |e author. |1 https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PBJbxCrWYwxFCf74PtJQH4q | |
| 245 | 1 | 4 | |a The fear of too much justice : |b race, poverty, and the persistence of inequality in the criminal courts / |c Stephen B. Bright and James Kwak. |
| 264 | 1 | |a New York ; |a London : |b The New Press, |c 2023. | |
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| 504 | |a Includes bibliographical references and index. | ||
| 505 | 0 | |a The myth of the adversary system -- The all-powerful prosecutor -- A poor person's justice -- Judges and the politics of crime -- The whitewashed jury -- Courts of profit -- The madness of measuring mental disorders -- An excess of punishment -- More justice, less crime. | |
| 520 | |a "Lawyer Stephen Bright and legal scholar James Kwak offer an overview of how the criminal legal system fails to live up to the values of equality and justice. The book ranges from poor people squeezed for cash by private probation companies because of trivial violations to people executed in violation of the Constitution despite overwhelming evidence of intellectual disability or mental illness. They also show examples from around the country of places that are making progress toward justice"-- |c Provided by the publisher. | ||
| 588 | |a Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on July 5, 2023). | ||
| 650 | 0 | |a Discrimination in criminal justice administration |z United States. | |
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| 650 | 0 | |a Public prosecutors |z United States. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Racism in criminal justice administration. | |
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