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Punishment Without Crime - How Our Massive Misdemeanor System Traps the Innocent and Makes America More Unequal (Paperback)
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Punishment Without Crime - How Our Massive Misdemeanor System Traps the Innocent and Makes America More Unequal (Paperback)
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From a prize-winning Harvard legal scholar, "a damning portrait"
(New York Review of Books) of the misdemeanor machine that unjustly
brands millions of Americans as criminals Punishment Without Crime
offers an urgent new perspective on inequality and injustice in
America by examining the paradigmatic American offense: the lowly
misdemeanor. Based on extensive original research, legal scholar
Alexandra Natapoff reveals the inner workings of a massive petty
offense system that produces over thirteen million criminal cases
each year, over 80 percent of the national total. People arrested
for minor crimes are swept through courts where defendants often
lack lawyers, judges process cases in mere minutes, and nearly
everyone pleads guilty. This misdemeanor machine starts punishing
people long before they are convicted, it punishes the innocent,
and it punishes conduct that never should have been a crime. As a
result, vast numbers of Americans-most of them poor and
disproportionately people of color-are stigmatized as criminals,
impoverished through fines and fees, and stripped of driver's
licenses, jobs, and housing. And as the nation learned from the
police killings of Eric Garner, George Floyd, and too many others,
misdemeanor enforcement can be lethal. Now updated with a new
afterword, Punishment Without Crime shows how America's sprawling
misdemeanor system makes our entire country less safe, less fair,
and less equal.
General
Imprint: |
BasicBooks
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Country of origin: |
United States |
Release date: |
May 2023 |
Authors: |
Alexandra Natapoff
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Dimensions: |
210 x 140mm (L x W) |
Format: |
Paperback
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Pages: |
352 |
ISBN-13: |
978-1-5416-0360-8 |
Categories: |
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Social sciences >
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LSN: |
1-5416-0360-5 |
Barcode: |
9781541603608 |
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