Punishment Without Trial Why Plea Bargaining Is a Bad Deal

HOT TOPIC: Criminal justice reform is an incredibly popular political topic, and books such as The New Jim Crow, Charged, Are Prisons Obsolete?, and Make Change have cast a new, critical light on our criminal justice system. Punishment Without Trial has the potential to do the same.UNIQUE PERSPECTIVE: Punishment Without Trial breaks new ground by analyzing an essential aspect of this broken system for the first time and proposing realistic solutions that can offer real reform.EXPERT AUTHOR: In addition to her outstanding academic and legal career, Hessick has written on the criminal justice system for the Los Angeles Times, the Philadelphia Inquirer, Slate, the Atlantic, and numerous academic journals.

Product details

• Authors: Carissa Byrne Hessick
• Publisher: Abrams
• Content: Book
• Product form: Paperback / Softback
• Publication date: 31.10.2022
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Law > International law, foreign law
• EAN: 9781419750304
• ISBN: 978-1-4197-5030-4
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