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Why the innocent plead guilty and the guilty go free : and other paradoxes of our broken legal system / Jed S. Rakoff.
"A senior federal judge's incisive, unsettling exploration of some of the paradoxes that the define the judiciary today: among them, why innocent people plead guilty, why high-level executives aren't prosecuted, why you won't get your day in court, and why the judiciary is curtailing its own constitutionally mandated power"-- Provided by publisher.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780374289997
- ISBN: 0374289999
- Physical Description: 193 pages ; 22 cm
- Edition: First edition.
- Publisher: New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2021.
Content descriptions
| General Note: | Includes index. |
| Formatted Contents Note: | The scourge of mass incarceration -- Why innocent people plead guilty -- Why eyewitness testimony is so often wrong -- Will the death penalty ever die? -- The failures, and future, of forensic science -- Brain science and the law : uncomfortable bedfellows -- Why high-level executives are exempt from prosecution -- Justice deferred is justice denied -- The shrinkage of legal oversight -- The War on Terror's war on law -- The Supreme Court's undue subservience to the executive branch -- Don't count on the courts -- You won't get your day in court. |
Search for related items by subject
| Subject: | Judicial error > United States. False imprisonment > United States. False testimony > United States. Criminal justice, Administration of > United States. |
Available copies
- 7 of 7 copies available at Missouri Evergreen. (Show)
- 1 of 1 copy available at Cass County.
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- 0 current holds with 7 total copies.
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cass County Library-Northern Resource Center | 345.73 RAK 2021 (Text) | 0002205548148 | Adult Non-Fiction | Available | - |
