Free Market Criminal Justice: How Democracy and Laissez Faire Undermine the Rule of Law
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| Rating | : | 4.56 (560 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0190457872 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 320 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-05-26 |
| Language | : | English |
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America's unique political development, characterized by skepticism of government power, has restrained the state's role not only in the economic realm but also in key parts of its criminal justice systems. In contrast to recent arguments for re-invigorating democracy in criminal process, Free Market Criminal Justice argues that, to strengthen the rule of law, US criminal justice needs less democracy, fewer market mechanisms, and more law.. Paradoxically, skepticism of government has expanded state power, reduced checks on executive officials, marginalized juries, and contributed
Writing in the criminal justice arena presents a major challenge A Lexington, VA reader Writing in the criminal justice arena presents a major challenge: writing something that not only is fresh and new but also has worthwhile insights where the reader is continually going, "oh my, had not thought about it that way" so that by the end she or he has a new way of thinking about old problems. Brown's book is in that handful of new books that can legitimately make that claim. The connections that he makes really are remarkably insightful and I defy a reader to not walk away thinking about criminal law reform in a new way. Professor Brown deservedly has a superb reputation as one of America's leading thinkers about crim
"Free Market Criminal Justice is a major advance on past work that has tried to link US punitiveness to its political economy. McKay Professor of Law, New York University School of Law. Schulhofer, Robert B. Recognizing that both democracy and markets operate as regulative ideals in American government, Brown shows us how they combine to produce a criminal process dominated by private ordering and remarkably indifferent to either law or truth. Kragen Professor of Law, Faculty Director, Center for the Study of Law & Society, UC Berkeley School of Law "Darryl Brown presents an original and convincing diagnosis of the distinctively American ideologies that have produced catastrophic dysfunction in our criminal justice system. It is hard to see how we can escape mass incarceration without revisiting these constitutive polit
Vicars Professor of Law at the University of Virginia, and the E. Brown is the O. He specializes in the teaching of criminal law, criminal adjudication, and evidence. Class of 1965 Research Professor of Law. M. Darryl K. Professor Brown has held visiting scholar appointments at the Criminology Centre and the Rothermere American Institute of Oxford Univer