No comparable volume collects in one place the various rules, doctrines, policies, and ideological positions that prevent our criminal justice system from pursuing and achieving justice.
No comparable volume collects in one place the various rules, doctrines, policies, and ideological positions that prevent our criminal justice system from pursuing and achieving justice.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
Paul Robinson is one of the world's leading criminal law scholars. A prolific writer and lecturer, Robinson has published 20 books and articles in virtually all of the top law reviews, lectured in more than 110 cities in 34 states and 27 countries, and had his writings appear in 15 languages. He is a former federal prosecutor and counsel for the US Senate Subcommittee on Criminal Laws and Procedures. He is the author or editor of 19 books, including the standard lawyer's reference on criminal law defenses, three Oxford monographs on criminal law theory, a highly regarded criminal law treatise, and an innovative case studies course book. He has authored more than a hundred scholarly articles that have appeared in essentially every major law review and his work has been published in 15 languages. A member of the American Law Institute, Robinson is the lead editor of Criminal Law Conversations (Oxford), with contributions from more than 100 scholars around the world, and the author of Intuitions of Justice and the Utility of Desert (Oxford); Mapping American Criminal Law (Praeger, also in Chinese); Distributive Principles of Criminal Law (Oxford, also in Spanish and Chinese); and Structure and Function in Criminal Law (Oxford, Clarendon, also in Chinese). Robinson recently completed three criminal code reform projects in the U.S. and two modern Islamic penal codes, including one under the auspices of the U.N. Development Programme. He also writes popular books for general audiences, such as Would You Convict? (NYU), Law Without Justice (Oxford), Crimes That Changed Our World (Rowman & Littlefield), Shadow Vigilantes (Prometheus), and American Criminal Law (Routledge). Jeffrey Seaman is a researcher and writer on the U.S. criminal justice system. He holds a Bachelor of Arts in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics (2022) and a Master of Science in Behavioral and Decision Sciences (2023) from the University of Pennsylvania. He is committed to bringing an interdisciplinary approach to the problem of criminal justice reform to make the system more just for all. Muhammad Sarahne: S.J.D., 2020, and LL.M., 2017, University of Pennsylvania Law School; LL.B. (Law) and B.A. (Psychology), Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 2011. Sarahne is currently an attorney in the Criminal Department of the State Attorney's Office in Israel, representing the state in criminal matters before the Israeli Supreme Court. He previously worked as a prosecutor in the Economic Crime Department and was an assistant to the Israeli Deputy Attorney General (Criminal). He is an adjunct teacher at the Law School of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and has published a number of articles in American and British law reviews.
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Chapter 1: Getting Away with Murder and Rape Part I: Criminal Liability Rules Chapter 2: Legal Bars to Prosecution Chapter 3: Anti-Justice Distributive Principles Part II: Limitations on Criminal Investigation Chapter 4: Investigative Errors Chapter 5: Inadequate Financing Chapter 6: Legal Limitations on Police Investigation Chapter 7: Restraints on Use of Technology Part III: Criminal Justice Adjudication Procedures Chapter 8: Excluding Reliable and Probative Evidence Chapter 9: Pretrial Procedures Chapter 10: Plea Bargaining Chapter 11: Unchecked Judicial Sentencing Discretion Chapter 12: Early Release on Parole and Compassionate Release Chapter 13: Executive Clemency and Pardon Part IV: Social and Political Influences Chapter 14: Citizen Non-Cooperation Chapter 15: Police Non-Intervention Chapter 16: Anti-Justice Ideological Movements Chapter 17: Insights, Patterns & Reform Priorities Appendix: Discussion Issues Bibliography Index About the Authors
