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Junk Science and the American Criminal Justice System

Author : M. Chris Fabricant
Publisher : Akashic Books
ISBN 13 : 1636140386
Total Pages : 349 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (361 download)

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Download or read book Junk Science and the American Criminal Justice System written by M. Chris Fabricant and published by Akashic Books. This book was released on 2023-08-22 with total page 349 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now in an expanded paperback edition, Innocence Project attorney M. Chris Fabricant presents an insider’s journey into the heart of a broken, racist system of justice and the role junk science plays in maintaining the status quo. "Fierce and absorbing . . . Fabricant chronicles the battles he and his colleagues have fought to unravel a century of fraudulent experts and the bad court decisions that allowed them to thrive." —Washington Post From CSI to Forensic Files to the celebrated reputation of the FBI crime lab, forensic scientists have long been mythologized in American popular culture as infallible crime solvers. Juries put their faith in "expert witnesses" and innocent people have been executed as a result. Innocent people are still on death row today, condemned by junk science. In 2012, the Innocence Project began searching for prisoners convicted by junk science, and three men, each convicted of capital murder, became M. Chris Fabricant's clients. Junk Science and the American Criminal Justice System chronicles the fights to overturn their wrongful convictions and to end the use of the "science" that destroyed their lives. Weaving together courtroom battles from Mississippi to Texas to New York City and beyond, Fabricant takes the reader on a journey into the heart of a broken, racist system of justice and the role forensic science plays in maintaining the status quo. At turns gripping, enraging, illuminating, and moving, Junk Science is a meticulously researched insider's perspective of the American criminal justice system. Previously untold stories of wrongful executions, corrupt prosecutors, and quackery masquerading as science animate Fabricant’s true crime narrative. The paperback edition features a brand-new index as well as an updated introduction and final chapter chronicling the Innocence Project’s continued fight against junk science in courtrooms across America.

Fixing This Broken Thing...The American Criminal Justice System

Author : James B Bolen PhD
Publisher : Page Publishing Inc
ISBN 13 : 1641386959
Total Pages : 130 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (413 download)

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Download or read book Fixing This Broken Thing...The American Criminal Justice System written by James B Bolen PhD and published by Page Publishing Inc. This book was released on 2020-11-07 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What war on drugs? Is our government complicit in the continued proliferation of the illegal drug trade in our nation? This supposed war on drugs has been ongoing for better than one hundred years with no apparent conclusion in sight. Perhaps we should entertain a new strategy to achieve ultimate victory in this never-ending conflict.Our criminal court system provides numerous avenues for offenders to eschew responsibility for their misdeeds. Overburdened criminal courts rely heavily u

The Collapse of American Criminal Justice

Author : William J. Stuntz
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674051750
Total Pages : 425 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (74 download)

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Download or read book The Collapse of American Criminal Justice written by William J. Stuntz and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2011-09-30 with total page 425 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rule of law has vanished in America’s criminal justice system. Prosecutors decide whom to punish; most accused never face a jury; policing is inconsistent; plea bargaining is rampant; and draconian sentencing fills prisons with mostly minority defendants. A leading criminal law scholar looks to history for the roots of these problems—and solutions.

The American Criminal Justice System

Author : Gerhard Falk
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 0313383480
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (133 download)

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Download or read book The American Criminal Justice System written by Gerhard Falk and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2010-03-11 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This critical yet honest appraisal of our criminal justice system addresses its strengths and its flaws—and makes recommendations for improvement. The American Criminal Justice System: How It Works, How It Doesn't, and How to Fix It calls attention to a criminal justice system that needs improvement. Author Gerhard Falk shows that the police themselves often violate the law; that prosecutors send innocent citizens to prison and even to death row; that defense attorneys take on cases they are not prepared to handle; that juries vote guilt or innocence on the basis of emotion, not facts; that judges are often failed attorneys or unscrupulous politicians; and that jails and prisons are too frequently warehouses of the poor. As background for his analysis, Falk discusses the history of the police, prosecutors, defense attorneys, and judges, as well as the history of prisons and "the prison industrial complex." He also offers a devastating analysis of the death penalty and its practitioners. The book ends with recommendations for the improvement of our criminal justice system so that America can truly be, as our Supreme Court proclaims, a land of "Equal Justice under Law."

The Past, Present, and Future of American Criminal Justice

Author : Brendan Maguire
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 9781882289400
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (894 download)

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Download or read book The Past, Present, and Future of American Criminal Justice written by Brendan Maguire and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 1996 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Today's criminal justice system is the product of adjustments and reappraisals of policies and practices of the past. The Past Present, and Future of American Criminal Justice highlights how criminal justice has changed and how it continues to change.

Crime and Justice in America

Author : Joycelyn M. Pollock
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1437735126
Total Pages : 452 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (377 download)

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Download or read book Crime and Justice in America written by Joycelyn M. Pollock and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This text offers a concise, affordable, and reader-friendly introduction to the criminal justice system. It explores the system in four sections: the criminal justice system as social control, law enforcement as social control, the law as social control, and corrections as social control.

From Retribution to Public Safety

Author : William R. Kelly
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1442273895
Total Pages : 235 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (422 download)

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Download or read book From Retribution to Public Safety written by William R. Kelly and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2017-05-25 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over the past fifty years, American criminal justice policy has had a nearly singular focus – the relentless pursuit of punishment. Punishment is intuitive, proactive, logical, and simple. But the problem is that despite all of the appeal, logic, and common sense, punishment doesn't work. The majority of crimes committed in the United States are by people who have been through the criminal justice system before, many on multiple occasions. There are two issues that are the primary focus of this book. The first is developing a better approach than simple punishment to actually address crime-related circumstances, deficits and disorders, in order to change offender behavior, reduce recidivism, victimization and cost. And the second issue is how do we do a better job of determining who should be diverted and who should be criminally prosecuted. From Retribution to Public Safety develops a strategy for informed decision making regarding criminal prosecution and diversion. The authors develop procedures for panels of clinical experts to provide prosecutors with recommendations about diversion and intervention. This requires a substantial shift in criminal procedure as well as major reform to the public health system, both of which are discussed in detail. Rather than ask how much punishment is necessary the authors look at how we can best reduce recidivism. In doing so they develop a roadmap to fix a fundamentally flawed system that is wasting massive amounts of public resources to not reducing crime or recidivism.

Crime and Criminal Justice in American Society

Author : Randall G. Shelden
Publisher : Waveland Press
ISBN 13 : 1478630140
Total Pages : 476 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (786 download)

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Download or read book Crime and Criminal Justice in American Society written by Randall G. Shelden and published by Waveland Press. This book was released on 2015-06-22 with total page 476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Today’s headlines vividly illustrate the importance of understanding aspects of the criminal justice system too often ignored. While the second edition of Crime and Criminal Justice in American Society includes the most recent statistics on the police, courts, and corrections, its provocative, current examples also spur critical thinking about justice in the United States. The authors offer an alternative interpretation of criminal justice rarely presented in traditional textbooks or by the media. They encourage readers to examine their beliefs about crime, punishment, and the law. Discussions in the chapters about how African Americans, Hispanics, whites, women, juveniles, the rich, and the poor experience crime and the criminal justice system contribute context for understanding different viewpoints. The poor and minorities are the most likely to be caught in the net of criminal justice—but inequities have consequences for everyone. Reflection on various perspectives provides helpful input for assessing attitudes and for becoming actively involved with issues that have significant consequences. Eighteen thoroughly revised chapters present historical backgrounds, theories, and emerging issues. New to the second edition is a chapter on veterans involved in the criminal justice system. Affordable, succinct, and engaging, this textbook presents the key concepts of the criminal justice system at less than half the cost of many competing textbooks.

Criminal Justice in America

Author : Roscoe Pound
Publisher : Transaction Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9781560009412
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (94 download)

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Download or read book Criminal Justice in America written by Roscoe Pound and published by Transaction Publishers. This book was released on 1997-01-01 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Roscoe Pound believed that unless the criminal justice system maintains stability while adapting to change, it will either fossilize or be subject to the whims of public opinion. In Criminal Justice in America, Pound recognizes the dangers law faces when it does not keep pace with societal change. When the home, neighborhood, and religion are no longer capable of social control, increased conflicts arise, laws proliferate, and new menaces wrought by technology, drugs, and juvenile delinquency flourish. Where Pound saw the influence of the motion pictures as part of the "multiplication of the agencies of menace," today we might cite television and the Internet. His point still holds true: The "old machinery" cannot meet the evolving needs of society. In Criminal Justice in America, Pound points out that one aspect of the criminal justice problem is a rigid mechanical approach that resists change. The other dimension of the problem is that change, when it comes, will result from the pressure of public opinion. Justice suffers when the public is moved by the oldest of public feelings, vengeance. This can result in citizens taking the law into their own handsâfrom tax evasion to mob lynchingsâas well as in altering the judicial systemâfrom sensationalizing trials to producing wrongful convictions. Ron Christenson, in his new introduction, discusses the evolution of Roscoe Pound's career and thought. Pound's theories on jurisprudence were remarkably prescient. They continue to gain resonance as crimes become more and more sensationalized by the media. Criminal Justice in America is a fascinating study that should be read by legal scholars and professionals, sociologists, political theorists, and philosophers.

Paradoxes in American Criminal Justice: Exploring Historical and Philosophical Aspects of the Criminal Justice System

Author : Tracy Tolbert
Publisher : Cognella Academic Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781516530144
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (31 download)

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Download or read book Paradoxes in American Criminal Justice: Exploring Historical and Philosophical Aspects of the Criminal Justice System written by Tracy Tolbert and published by Cognella Academic Publishing. This book was released on 2017-12-31 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Search and Destroy

Author : Jerome G. Miller
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139494864
Total Pages : 217 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (394 download)

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Download or read book Search and Destroy written by Jerome G. Miller and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2010-11-22 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This tightly argued and methodologically sound volume addresses widespread social assumptions associating crime and African-American men. An exploration into the criminal justice system in America today and its impact on young African-American males, this book challenges the linking of crime and race and the conservative anti-welfare, hard-on-crime agenda. Jerry Miller has spent a lifetime studying and challenging our criminal justice system. He has worked to make it more progressive and more just. He has watched as it turned into a system of segregation and control for many Americans of color. That is the story told here in devastating detail.

Injustice for All

Author : Chris W Surprenant
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000750523
Total Pages : 222 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (7 download)

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Download or read book Injustice for All written by Chris W Surprenant and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-12-06 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: American criminal justice is a dysfunctional mess. Cops are too violent, the punishments are too punitive, and the so-called Land of the Free imprisons more people than any other country in the world. Understanding why means focusing on color—not only on black or white (which already has been studied extensively), but also on green. The problem is that nearly everyone involved in criminal justice—including district attorneys, elected judges, the police, voters, and politicians—faces bad incentives. Local towns often would rather send people to prison on someone else’s dime than pay for more effective policing themselves. Local police forces can enrich themselves by turning into warrior cops who steal from innocent civilians. Voters have very little incentive to understand the basic facts about crime or how to fix it—and vote accordingly. And politicians have every incentive to cater to voters’ worst biases. Injustice for All systematically diagnoses why and where American criminal justice goes wrong, and offers functional proposals for reform. By changing who pays for what, how people are appointed, how people are punished, and which things are criminalized, we can make the US a country which guarantees justice for all. Key Features: Shows how bad incentives, not "bad apples," cause the dysfunction in American criminal justice Focuses not only on overincarceration, but on overcriminalization and other failures of the criminal justice system Provides a philosophical and practical defense of reducing the scope of what’s considered criminal activity Crosses ideological lines, highlighting both the weaknesses and strengths of liberal, conservative, and libertarian agendas Fully integrates tools from philosophy and social science, making this stand out from the many philosophy books on punishment, on the one hand, and the solely empirical studies from sociology and criminal science, on the other Avoids disciplinary jargon, broadening the book’s suitability for students and researchers in many different fields and for an interested general readership Offers plausible reforms that realign specific incentives with the public good.

Exploring Criminal Justice

Author : Robert M. Regoli
Publisher : Jones & Bartlett Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1449615023
Total Pages : 479 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (496 download)

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Download or read book Exploring Criminal Justice written by Robert M. Regoli and published by Jones & Bartlett Publishers. This book was released on 2008 with total page 479 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: [This book is an] introductory text [which] provides a ... introduction to the U.S. criminal justice system ... This text explains the overarching processes and purposes of the criminal justice system. The functions of each component - police, courts, corrections - and the relationships between them are described in detail.-Back cover.

Crime and Justice in America

Author : John T. O'Brien
Publisher : Elsevier
ISBN 13 : 1483138372
Total Pages : 382 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (831 download)

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Download or read book Crime and Justice in America written by John T. O'Brien and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2016-06-06 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Crime and Justice in America: Critical Issues of the Future is a part of the Pergamon Policy Studies and is divided in five parts reflecting five broad problem areas. This collection is from authors chosen based on their exposure to the field of criminal justice and proven expertise in a particular area. The book deals with the forecasting ability of the police for developments over the whole field of public affairs. The first part is concerned with public law enforcement on local, county, state, and national government levels of the American federal system. A particular problem is discussed on each of these levels. The second problem area concerns the most confusing segment of the justice system - the move from the public to the private sector of criminal justice. The growth of campus, school police, and other private police is suggested to assist the public sector. The third part deals with organized crime, terrorism, and hostage negotiations as being grave threats to society. To fight them requires cooperation, even consolidation, and intelligence sources. Organized crime is discussed in the fourth section, where American penal laws are seemingly a reflection of religious mores. The last section covers personnel matters in the criminal justice system and anticipated developments after achieving professionalism in the police and correctional services. This book is intended for scholars, practitioners, and students of criminal justice. This text can prove useful to practitioners in the fields of sociology, psychology, and public administration. This book is also recommended for investigators and private citizens interested in the study of criminal justice.

Paradoxes in American Criminal Justice

Author : Tracy Tolbert
Publisher : Cognella Academic Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781516530137
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (31 download)

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Download or read book Paradoxes in American Criminal Justice written by Tracy Tolbert and published by Cognella Academic Publishing. This book was released on 2017-12-31 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Crime and Criminal Justice in America

Author : Joycelyn Pollock
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1351979876
Total Pages : 567 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (519 download)

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Download or read book Crime and Criminal Justice in America written by Joycelyn Pollock and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2017-02-17 with total page 567 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Crime and Criminal Justice in America, Third Edition, addresses the major controversial issues in U.S. policing, courts, and the correctional system. This book features unique graphics and contemporary data and research, developed by Joycelyn Pollock, criminologist, and University Distinguished Professor of Criminal Justice, Texas State University. The text’s question-and-answer model promotes a critical thinking process for students new to criminal justice, encouraging student engagement and the application of learned skills through end-of-chapter exercises. Timely, comprehensive, and visually stimulating, Crime and Criminal Justice in America, Third Edition, is the go-to text for introductory criminal justice students and educators.

Rich Get Richer and the Poor Get Prison, The (Subscription)

Author : Jeffrey Reiman
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 131734295X
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (173 download)

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Download or read book Rich Get Richer and the Poor Get Prison, The (Subscription) written by Jeffrey Reiman and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-07-14 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Illustrates the issue of economic inequality within the American justice system. The best-selling text, The Rich Get Richer and the Poor Get Prison contends that the criminal justice system is biased against the poor from start to finish. The authors argue that even before the process of arrest, trial, and sentencing, the system is biased against the poor in what it chooses to treat as crime. The authors show that numerous acts of the well-off--such as their refusal to make workplaces safe, refusal to curtail deadly pollution, promotion of unnecessary surgery, and prescriptions for unnecessary drugs--cause as much harm as the acts of the poor that are treated as crimes. However, the dangerous acts of the well-off are almost never treated as crimes, and when they are, they are almost never treated as severely as the crimes of the poor. Not only does the criminal justice system fail to protect against the harmful acts of well-off people, it also fails to remedy the causes of crime, such as poverty. This results in a large population of poor criminals in our prisons and in our media. The authors contend that the idea of crime as a work of the poor serves the interests of the rich and powerful while conveying a misleading notion that the real threat to Americans comes from the bottom of society rather than the top. Learning Goals Upon completing this book, readers will be able to: Examine the criminal justice system through the lens of the poor. Understand that much of what goes on in the criminal justice system violates one’s own sense of fairness. Morally evaluate the criminal justice system’s failures. Identify the type of legislature that is biased against the poor.