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If an innocent person is sent to prison or if a killer walks free,
we are outraged. The legal system assures us, and we expect and
demand, that it will seek to "do justice" in criminal cases. So
why, for some cases, does the criminal law deliberately and
routinely sacrifice justice? In this unflinching look at American
criminal law, Paul Robinson and Michael Cahill demonstrate that
cases with unjust outcomes are not always irregular or
unpredictable. Rather, the criminal law sometimes chooses not to
give defendants what they deserve: that is, unsatisfying results
occur even when the system works as it is designed to work. The
authors find that while some justice-sacrificing doctrines serve
their intended purpose, many others do not, or could be replaced by
other, better rules that would serve the purpose without abandoning
a just result. With a panoramic view of the overlapping and often
competing goals that our legal institutions must balance on a daily
basis, Law without Justice challenges us to restore justice to the
criminal justice system.
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