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Misdemeanorland - Criminal Courts and Social Control in an Age of Broken Windows Policing (Paperback)
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Misdemeanorland - Criminal Courts and Social Control in an Age of Broken Windows Policing (Paperback)
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"An eye-opening account of the criminal justice system's often
overlooked creaky gears."-Sam Roberts, New York Times 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 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.
Misdemeanorland 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.
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