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Rehabilitating Criminal Justice: Innovations in Policing, Adjudication, and Sentencing

Rehabilitating Criminal Justice: Innovations in Policing, Adjudication, and Sentencing

Name: Rehabilitating Criminal Justice: Innovations in Policing, Adjudication, and Sentencing
Brand: Cambridge University Press
SKU: 9781009586924
Price: 390.78 HKD
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Author: Christopher Slobogin
ISBN: 9781009586924

By Christopher Slobogin

Cambridge University Press April 2025

Specifications

ISBN-13: 9781009586924
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication: April 2025
Format: Paperback
Jurisdiction: U.K. ? Countri(es) for reference only

Details

Rehabilitating Criminal Justice offers bold yet sensible proposals for reforming every major component of the US criminal justice system. The first third of the book explains how existing caselaw can be interpreted to end over-policing, better regulate interrogations, and replace the exclusionary rule with direct sanctions on officers and their departments. The second part of the book, on the post-arrest adjudication process, calls for replacing cash bail with validated risk assessments and proposes to reorient our error-prone, hyper-adversarial system by ending convictions via guilty pleas and giving judges more power over questioning of witnesses and the selection of experts. The final chapters show how the harshness of the system can be leavened by refocusing sentencing on prevention rather than retribution and by creating an independent criminal court system. They also explain why these reforms are preferable to the currently popular movement to defund police departments and abolish prisons.

Preface

1. Equality in the Streets

2. Police ≠ Community Caretakers

3. Making Interrogation Transparent

4. Holding Police and Criminals Accountable

5. Downsizing Pretrial Detention

6. Accurate Adjudications: Lessons from a Death Penalty State

7. Borrowing from European Trials

8. Rationalizing Plea Bargaining

9. Preventive Justice

10. Reconciling Desert and Risk at Sentencing

11. Specialized Criminal Courts