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Author : United States. Advisory Commission on Intergovernmental Relations
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 24 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1971
Category : Criminal justice, Administration of
ISBN : HARVARD:32044032198285
Author : Kim Taylor-Thompson,Anthony C. Thompson
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2022-05-10
Category : LAW
ISBN : 9781479809950
"The 2020 murder of George Floyd rocked nearly every aspect of American life and brought issues of police brutality to the forefront of public discourse. In the wake of his death and under extreme public pressure, many politicians, police chiefs, and court officials acknowledged the existence of systemic inequality in the fields of policing and criminal justice. However, with few exceptions, one actor within the justice system remained painfully silent: prosecutors. Progressive Prosecution both argues that this group should be at the forefront of calls for criminal justice reform and provides a guidebook for how this can be achieved. To date, little has been written that offers real guidance to District Attorneys and their staffs to help them shape a new culture within their offices dedicated to race-conscious practices and even-handed approaches. And even less has been written to educate a broader audience about the importance of a race-sensitive, community-based prosecution function in making real change in the criminal justice system and moving toward real justice. Progressive Prosecution offers both through a curated collection of chapters written by criminal justice experts and practicing District Attorneys focused on those components of prosecution policy and practice that deserve and demand radical rethinking. The book puts forth a radical new vision of prosecution: prosecutors must redefine the future of the criminal justice system"--
Author : Law Reform Commission of Canada
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 126 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Attorneys general
ISBN : OCLC:720054885
Author : Brandon L. Garrett
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2014-11-03
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780674744615
American courts routinely hand down harsh sentences to individual convicts, but a very different standard of justice applies to corporations. Too Big to Jail takes readers into a complex, compromised world of backroom deals, for an unprecedented look at what happens when criminal charges are brought against a major company in the United States. Federal prosecutors benefit from expansive statutes that allow an entire firm to be held liable for a crime by a single employee. But when prosecutors target the Goliaths of the corporate world, they find themselves at a huge disadvantage. The government that bailed out corporations considered too economically important to fail also negotiates settlements permitting giant firms to avoid the consequences of criminal convictions. Presenting detailed data from more than a decade of federal cases, Brandon Garrett reveals a pattern of negotiation and settlement in which prosecutors demand admissions of wrongdoing, impose penalties, and require structural reforms. However, those reforms are usually vaguely defined. Many companies pay no criminal fine, and even the biggest blockbuster payments are often greatly reduced. While companies must cooperate in the investigations, high-level employees tend to get off scot-free. The practical reality is that when prosecutors face Hydra-headed corporate defendants prepared to spend hundreds of millions on lawyers, such agreements may be the only way to get any result at all. Too Big to Jail describes concrete ways to improve corporate law enforcement by insisting on more stringent prosecution agreements, ongoing judicial review, and greater transparency.
Author : Emily Bazelon
Publisher : Random House Trade Paperbacks
Page : 450 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2020-05-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780399590030
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A renowned journalist and legal commentator exposes the unchecked power of the prosecutor as a driving force in America’s mass incarceration crisis—and charts a way out. “An important, thoughtful, and thorough examination of criminal justice in America that speaks directly to how we reduce mass incarceration.”—Bryan Stevenson, author of Just Mercy “This harrowing, often enraging book is a hopeful one, as well, profiling innovative new approaches and the frontline advocates who champion them.”—Matthew Desmond, author of Evicted FINALIST FOR THE LOS ANGELES TIMES BOOK PRIZE • SHORTLISTED FOR THE J. ANTHONY LUKAS BOOK PRIZE • NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY NPR • The New York Public Library • Library Journal • Publishers Weekly • Kirkus Reviews The American criminal justice system is supposed to be a contest between two equal adversaries, the prosecution and the defense, with judges ensuring a fair fight. That image of the law does not match the reality in the courtroom, however. Much of the time, it is prosecutors more than judges who control the outcome of a case, from choosing the charge to setting bail to determining the plea bargain. They often decide who goes free and who goes to prison, even who lives and who dies. In Charged, Emily Bazelon reveals how this kind of unchecked power is the underreported cause of enormous injustice—and the missing piece in the mass incarceration puzzle. Charged follows the story of two young people caught up in the criminal justice system: Kevin, a twenty-year-old in Brooklyn who picked up his friend’s gun as the cops burst in and was charged with a serious violent felony, and Noura, a teenage girl in Memphis indicted for the murder of her mother. Bazelon tracks both cases—from arrest and charging to trial and sentencing—and, with her trademark blend of deeply reported narrative, legal analysis, and investigative journalism, illustrates just how criminal prosecutions can go wrong and, more important, why they don’t have to. Bazelon also details the second chances they prosecutors can extend, if they choose, to Kevin and Noura and so many others. She follows a wave of reform-minded D.A.s who have been elected in some of our biggest cities, as well as in rural areas in every region of the country, put in office to do nothing less than reinvent how their job is done. If they succeed, they can point the country toward a different and profoundly better future.
Author : Melissa Crouch
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 449 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2019-09-19
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781108493468
Offers an analysis of the politics of court reform through a focused review of Indonesia's complex court system.
Author : Vincenzo Guido
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2021-08-25
Category : Law
ISBN : 164137991X
In the criminal justice system, people are cast into polar positions on the good-bad axis: good guys and bad guys. Prosecutors, who wield considerable power and influence in the enforcement of our laws, are almost universally cast as good guys. Seldom is there accountability when they are, in fact, not always good. Rethinking Justice: Inside America's Movement for Prosecution Reform introduces a newly minted generation of prosecutors, intent on holding the entire system accountable and changing the way we handle crime in America. Explore how a prevailing philosophy of retributive over restorative justice has contributed to mass incarceration. Discover what happens when civil servants go beyond filling prisons to address systemic injustices. Meet Portsmouth Commonwealth Attorney Stephanie Morales, whose investment in crime prevention, community building, and restorative justice could provide a model for widespread reform. Through stories and insights from district attorneys, legal scholars, and survivors of a perilously flawed system, Rethinking Justice imagines the tough-on-crime D.A. role recast as a "progressive prosecutor." Is this political paradox even possible?
Author : Philip C. Stenning,Law Reform Commission of Canada
Publisher : Cowansville [Québec] : Brown Legal Publications
Page : 446 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Law
ISBN : STANFORD:36105043908768
Author : Yun Zhao,Michael Ng
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 327 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781107182004
A critical evaluation of the latest reform in Chinese law that engages legal scholarship with research of Chinese legal historians.
Author : Bianca M Forde
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2020-11-30
Category : Law
ISBN : 173576972X
From the heart of a bold and brilliant thought-leader comes this compelling memoir and call-to-action, which fills a gaping hole in criminal justice reform literature in a way that only Bianca M. Forde can. Uniquely qualified, following a racially motivated arrest that paradoxically labeled her as both prosecuted and prosecutor, Forde provides an authentic analysis of how prosecutors can truly fulfill their mandate as servants of the law. She tackles the taboo topics that prosecutors are best positioned, but often lack courage, to discuss-from inequities in charging decisions and blind spots affecting Brady disclosures; to dispassionate requests for detention, and detached sentencing recommendations. She candidly shares her evolution as a prosecutor in hopes of accelerating the maturity of rookie prosecutors, inspiring a new way of thinking among veteran prosecutors, and educating community members on why their local vote matters. If mass incarceration is the disease, Forde is firmly convinced that justice-minded, transformational prosecution is, in large part, the cure. This book elevates the conversation on prosecutorial power to a new height, and provides practical guidance that promises to disrupt the status quo.
Author : Law Reform Commission of Canada
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 100 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1314934417
Author : Emily Bazelon
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 449 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780399590016
Charge -- Hearing -- Bail -- Gun court -- Election -- Trial -- Guilty plea -- The New D.A.s -- Appeal -- Diversion -- Alford plea -- Dismissal -- Ethics trial -- Reform
Author : Angela J. Davis
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2007-04-12
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780199884278
What happens when public prosecutors, the most powerful officials in the criminal justice system, seek convictions instead of justice? Why are cases involving well-to-do victims often prosecuted more vigorously than those involving poor victims? Why do wealthy defendants frequently enjoy more lenient plea bargains than the disadvantaged? In this eye-opening work, Angela J. Davis shines a much-needed light on the power of American prosecutors, revealing how the day-to-day practice of even the most well-intentioned prosecutors can result in unequal treatment of defendants and victims. Ranging from mandatory minimum sentencing laws that enhance prosecutorial control over the outcome of cases, to the increasing politicization of the office, Davis uses powerful stories of individuals caught in the system to demonstrate how the perfectly legal exercise of prosecutorial discretion can result in gross inequities in criminal justice. For the paperback edition, Davis provides a new Afterword which covers such recent incidents of prosecutorial abuse as the Jena Six case, the Duke lacrosse case, the Department of Justice firings, and more.
Author : Franklin Strier
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1996-05-15
Category : Law
ISBN : 0226777189
In this lively and persuasive critique, Franklin Strier doesn't simply describe problems with the American trial system; he proposes reforms. He offers a detailed blueprint of how to improve our basic adversarial system while blunting its excesses and inequities. Strier points out that the jury system was originally intended to diffuse the power of the government, but criticizes the method by which jurors are selected, patronized, and manipulated. Among his suggestions: eliminate peremptory challenges, give jurors the authority, and judges the responsibility, to ask questions of witnesses, and use neutral expert witnesses.
Author : Law Reform Commission of Canada
Publisher : Commission de réforme du droit du Canada
Page : 488 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Law
ISBN : STANFORD:36105061651555
This is a revised and enlarged edition of report 30 proposing a new Code of Substantive Criminal Law for Canada. The proposed Criminal Code expresses the essential principles of criminal law and rules of general application. It defines most of the crimes of concern to a modern industrialized society. At the same time, it drops archaic provisions but addresses modern day social problems like pollution and terrorism. Title I is the general part containing rules of general application; Title II contains most of the crimes against the person; Title III enumerates most of the crimes against property; Title IV lists crimes against the natural order; Title V deals with crimes against the social order; and Title VI encompasses crimes against the governmental order.
