Law without justice : why criminal law doesn't give people what they deserve /

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Author / Creator:Robinson, Paul H., 1948-
Imprint:Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2006.
Description:1 online resource (xi, 319 pages) : illustrations
Language:English
Series:OUP E-Books.
Subject:Criminal justice, Administration of -- United States.
Judicial error -- United States.
Law reform -- United States.
Justice pénale -- Administration -- États-Unis.
Erreur judiciaire -- États-Unis.
Droit -- Réforme -- États-Unis.
LAW -- Criminal Law -- General.
Criminal justice, Administration of.
Judicial error.
Law reform.
Strafrechtspleging.
United States.
Electronic books.
Electronic books.
Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11146898
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Other authors / contributors:Cahill, Michael T.
ISBN:9780198036319
0198036310
1280532564
9781280532566
1429403292
9781429403290
9786610532568
6610532567
0195160150
9780195160154
Digital file characteristics:data file
Notes:Includes bibliographical references (pages 233-311) and index.
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Summary:This book is a ... for thoughtful legislators and all the rest of us who seek justice for persons charged with crimes-proportional punishment of the guilty, and exculpation of the morally blameless. The authors demonstrate, with remarkable lucidity, how and why the criminal law sometimes deliberately sacrifices justice for other goals, and they provide thoughtful, controversial, and often persuasive suggestions on how we can redesign our legal system to give people their just deserts. [In the book, the authors offer an] account of how the American criminal justice system fails to give offenders their just deserts in a number of different contexts. From the refusal to allow partial exoneration for defenses like mistake of law and insanity to the practical limitations on detecting and prosecuting offenders, [they also] demonstrate through ... discussions of actual cases the many areas where criminal sentencing fails to do justice.-Dust jacket.
Other form:Print version: Robinson, Paul H., 1948- Law without justice. Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2006 0195160150