Description: Further DetailsTitle: Punishment Without CrimeCondition: NewSubtitle: How Our Massive Misdemeanor System Traps the Innocent and Makes America More UnequalISBN-10: 1541603605EAN: 9781541603608ISBN: 9781541603608Publisher: Basic BooksFormat: PaperbackRelease Date: 05/11/2023Description: From a prize-winning Harvard legal scholar, "a damning portrait" (New York Review of Books) of the misdemeanor machine that unjustly brands millions of Americans as criminals Punishment Without Crime offers an urgent new perspective on inequality and injustice in America by examining the paradigmatic American offense: the lowly misdemeanor. Based on extensive original research, legal scholar Alexandra Natapoff reveals the inner workings of a massive petty offense system that produces over thirteen million criminal cases each year, over 80 percent of the national total. People arrested for minor crimes are swept through courts where defendants often lack lawyers, judges process cases in mere minutes, and nearly everyone pleads guilty. This misdemeanor machine starts punishing people long before they are convicted, it punishes the innocent, and it punishes conduct that never should have been a crime. As a result, vast numbers of Americans-most of them poor and disproportionately people of color-are stigmatized as criminals, impoverished through fines and fees, and stripped of driver's licenses, jobs, and housing. And as the nation learned from the police killings of Eric Garner, George Floyd, and too many others, misdemeanor enforcement can be lethal. Now updated with a new afterword, Punishment Without Crime shows how America's sprawling misdemeanor system makes our entire country less safe, less fair, and less equal.Language: EnglishCountry/Region of Manufacture: USItem Height: 210mmItem Length: 138mmItem Width: 28mmItem Weight: 300gAuthor: Alexandra NatapoffGenre: Law & PoliticsTopic: Social Sciences, Society & CultureRelease Year: 2023 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
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Publication Name: Punishment Without Crime
Title: Punishment Without Crime
Subtitle: How Our Massive Misdemeanor System Traps the Innocent and Makes A
ISBN-10: 1541603605
EAN: 9781541603608
ISBN: 9781541603608
Release Date: 05/11/2023
Release Year: 2023
Country/Region of Manufacture: US
Book Title: Punishment Without Crime : How Our Massive Misdemeanor System Traps the Innocent and Makes America More Unequal
Number of Pages: 352 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: Basic Books
Publication Year: 2023
Topic: Discrimination & Race Relations, Law Enforcement, General, Criminal Law / Sentencing
Item Height: 1.2 in
Genre: Law, Political Science, Social Science
Item Weight: 11.1 Oz
Item Length: 8.2 in
Author: Alexandra Natapoff
Item Width: 5.5 in
Format: Trade Paperback
