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Misdemeanorland - Criminal Courts and Social Control in an Age of Broken Windows Policing (Hardcover)
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Misdemeanorland - Criminal Courts and Social Control in an Age of Broken Windows Policing (Hardcover)
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An in-depth look at the consequences of New York City's
dramatically expanded policing of low-level offenses Felony
conviction and mass incarceration attract considerable media
attention these days, yet the most common criminal-justice
encounters are for misdemeanors, not felonies, and the most common
outcome is not prison. In the early 1990s, New York City launched
an initiative under the banner of Broken Windows policing to
dramatically expand enforcement against low-level offenses.
Misdemeanorland is the first book to document the fates of the
hundreds of thousands of people hauled into lower criminal courts
as part of this policing experiment. Drawing on three years of
fieldwork inside and outside of the courtroom, in-depth interviews,
and analysis of trends in arrests and dispositions of misdemeanors
going back three decades, Issa Kohler-Hausmann argues that lower
courts have largely abandoned the adjudicative model of criminal
law administration in which questions of factual guilt and legal
punishment drive case outcomes. Due to the sheer volume of arrests,
lower courts have adopted a managerial model--and the implications
are troubling. Kohler-Hausmann shows how significant volumes of
people are marked, tested, and subjected to surveillance and
control even though about half the cases result in some form of
legal dismissal. She describes in harrowing detail how the reach of
America's penal state extends well beyond the shocking numbers of
people incarcerated in prisons or stigmatized by a felony
conviction. Revealing and innovative, Misdemeanorland shows how the
lower reaches of our criminal justice system operate as a form of
social control and surveillance, often without adjudicating cases
or imposing formal punishment.
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