William T. Pizzi

The Supreme Court's Role in Mass Incarceration (eBook, PDF)

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Produktbeschreibung

The Supreme Court's Role in Mass Incarceration illuminates the role of the United States Supreme Court's criminal procedure revolution as a contributing factor to the rise in U.S. incarceration rates.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 160
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. September 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000180428
• Artikelnr.: 59969298

Autorenporträt

William T. Pizzi is Professor of Law Emeritus at the University of Colorado Law School. He is a graduate of Harvard Law School and he also holds an advanced degree in philosophy from the University of Massachusetts. Following law school, Professor Pizzi was a federal prosecutor in the District of New Jersey before joining the faculty at Colorado Law where he taught for thirty-five years. He is one of the foremost scholars in the United States on comparative criminal issues. He has lectured abroad for both the Ford Foundation and the United States Information Agency.

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1. Mass Incarceration and Its "Causes"
Chapter 2. The Risks of Constitutional Rule-Making
Chapter 3. The Federal System, State Systems, and Miranda v. Arizona
Chapter 4. The Vanishing Trial and Mass Incarceration
Chapter 5. Must Fair Trials Be Jury Trials?
Chapter 6. The Shift from Indeterminate Sentences to Determinate Sentences
Chapter 7. Plea Bargaining in the United States: Coercing Guilty Pleas
Chapter 8. The Supreme Court: Uncertain on Proportionality...Endorsing
Deterrence
Chapter 9. Limiting Judicial Power at Sentencing: The Emergence of
Sentencing Guidelines Systems
Chapter 10. The Supreme Court: An Obstacle to Reform
Chapter 11. Extreme Adversarialism, Muted Adversarialism, and the Slow
Death of Trials
Chapter 12. Where Do We Go from Here?