Misdemeanorland - Criminal Courts and Social Control in an Age of Broken Windows Policing (Paperback)

"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.

General

Imprint:	Princeton University Press
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	August 2019
First published:	2018
Authors:	Issa Kohler-Hausmann
Dimensions:	235 x 156 x 16mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback - Trade
Pages:	324
ISBN-13:	978-0-691-19611-4
Categories:	Books > Law > Laws of other jurisdictions & general law > Criminal law Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social institutions > General Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Crime & criminology > General Books > Law > Laws of other jurisdictions & general law > Courts & procedure > General
LSN:	0-691-19611-7
Barcode:	9780691196114

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