Darryl K Brown

Free Market Criminal Justice

How Democracy and Laissez Faire Undermine the Rule of Law

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Produktbeschreibung

Free Market Criminal Justice explains how excessive faith in democratic politics and free markets has undermined the rule of law in the US criminal process. It argues that, to strengthen the rule of law, American criminal justice needs less democracy, less market-inspired process, and more law.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 322
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. Januar 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 241mm x 161mm x 30mm
• Gewicht: 614g
• ISBN-13: 9780190457877
• ISBN-10: 0190457872
• Artikelnr.: 47864075

Autorenporträt

Darryl K. Brown is the O. M. Vicars Professor of Law at the University of Virginia, and the E. James Kelly, Jr. Class of 1965 Research Professor of Law. He specializes in criminal law, criminal adjudication, and evidence. Previously, he was the Class of 1958 Alumni Professor of Law at Washington and Lee University School of Law. Professor Brown clerked for Chief Judge Dolores K. Sloviter of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit. He was also an associate at Kilpatrick & Cody in Atlanta, and an assistant public defender in Clarke County, Georgia.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments
1: Introduction--Justice in a Minimal State
2: Criminal Justice and Democracy
3: Criminal Justice by the Invisible Hand
4: The Free Market Law of Plea Bargaining
5: Private Responsibility for Criminal Judgments
6: The High Cost of Efficiency
7: Criminal Justice and the Security State
8: Epilogue--The American Way of Criminal Process
Endnotes
Index