When Law Fails : : Making Sense of Miscarriages of Justice /

When Law Fails : : Making Sense of Miscarriages of Justice / / Austin Sarat; ed. by Charles J. Ogletree Jr.

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Since 1989, there have been over 200 post-conviction DNA exonerations in the United States. On the surface, the release of innocent people from prison could be seen as a victory for the criminal justice system: the wrong person went to jail, but the mistake was fixed and the accused set free. A clos...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter New York University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2000-2013
VerfasserIn:
Sarat, Austin,
MitwirkendeR:
Berman, Douglas A.,
Dubber, Markus D.,
Dudziak, Mary L.,
Ewick, Patricia,
Givelber, Daniel,
Ogletree, Charles J.,
Ross Meyer, Linda,
Sarat, Austin,
Simon, Jonathan,
Weisberg, Robert,
HerausgeberIn:
Ogletree Jr., Charles J.,
Place / Publishing House:New York, NY : : New York University Press, , [2009]
©2009
Year of Publication:2009
Language:English
Series:The Charles Hamilton Houston Institute Series on Race and Justice ; 3
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • Part I. On the Meaning and Signifi cance of Miscarriages of Justice
  • Chapter 1. Th e Case of “Death for a Dollar Ninety-Five”
  • Chapter 2. When Law Fails
  • Chapter 3. Margins of Error
  • Part II. Miscarriages of Justice and Legal Processes
  • Chapter 4. Recovering the Craft of Policing
  • Chapter 5. Kalven and Zeisel in the Twenty-First Century
  • Chapter 6. Extreme Punishment
  • Chapter 7. Miscarriages of Mercy?
  • Chapter 8. Memorializing Miscarriages of Justice
  • Part III. Reconceptualizing Miscarriages of Justice
  • Chapter 9. Miscarriage of Justice as Misnomer
  • Chapter 10. The Scale of Injustice
  • Contributors
  • Index

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