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Punishment Without Trial: Why Plea Bargaining Is a Bad Deal

Carissa Byrne Hessick

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Description:When Americans think of the criminal justice system, the image that comes to mind is a trial--a standard court-room scene with a defendant, attorneys, a judge, and most important, a jury. It's a fair assumption. But in Punishment Without Trial: Why Plea Bargaining Is a Bad Deal, University of North Carolina law professor Carissa Byrne Hessick shows that the popular conception of a jury trial couldn't be further from reality. That bed-rock constitutional right has all but disappeared thanks to the unstoppable march of plea bargaining, which began to take hold during Prohibition and has skyrocketed since 1971, when it was affirmed as constitutional by the Supreme Court. Nearly every aspect of our criminal justice system encourages defendants--whether innocent or guilty--to take a plea deal. Punishment Without Trial showcases how plea bargaining has undermined justice at every turn and across socioeconomic and racial divides. It forces the hand of lawyers, judges, and defendants, turning our legal system into a ruthlessly efficient mass incarceration machine that is dogging our jails and pun-ishing citizens. Professor Hessick makes the case against plea bargaining as she illustrates how it has damaged our justice system while presenting an innovative set of reforms for how we can fix it.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Punishment Without Trial: Why Plea Bargaining Is a Bad Deal. To get started finding Punishment Without Trial: Why Plea Bargaining Is a Bad Deal, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Description: When Americans think of the criminal justice system, the image that comes to mind is a trial--a standard court-room scene with a defendant, attorneys, a judge, and most important, a jury. It's a fair assumption. But in Punishment Without Trial: Why Plea Bargaining Is a Bad Deal, University of North Carolina law professor Carissa Byrne Hessick shows that the popular conception of a jury trial couldn't be further from reality. That bed-rock constitutional right has all but disappeared thanks to the unstoppable march of plea bargaining, which began to take hold during Prohibition and has skyrocketed since 1971, when it was affirmed as constitutional by the Supreme Court. Nearly every aspect of our criminal justice system encourages defendants--whether innocent or guilty--to take a plea deal. Punishment Without Trial showcases how plea bargaining has undermined justice at every turn and across socioeconomic and racial divides. It forces the hand of lawyers, judges, and defendants, turning our legal system into a ruthlessly efficient mass incarceration machine that is dogging our jails and pun-ishing citizens. Professor Hessick makes the case against plea bargaining as she illustrates how it has damaged our justice system while presenting an innovative set of reforms for how we can fix it.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Punishment Without Trial: Why Plea Bargaining Is a Bad Deal. To get started finding Punishment Without Trial: Why Plea Bargaining Is a Bad Deal, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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