Punishment Without Crime : : how our Massive Misdemeanor System Traps the Innocent and Makes America More Unequal
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Introduction -- Impact -- Size -- Process -- Innocence -- Money -- Race -- History -- Justice -- Change -- Epilogue.
"Punishment Without Crime offers an urgent new interpretation of 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 13 million cases each year. 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 people of color -- are stigmatized as criminals, impoverished through fines and fees, and stripped of drivers' licenses, jobs, and housing. For too long, misdemeanors have been ignored. But they are crucial to understanding our punitive criminal system and our widening economic and racial divides." -- Amazon.com.
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PUBLISHED
New York : Basic Books, [2018]
Year Published: 2018
Description: 334 pages ; 25 cm
Language: English
Format: Book
ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
9780465093793
0465093795
SUBJECTS
Crime -- Classification.
Criminal justice, Administration of -- Social aspects.