Twenty Million Angry Men (eBook)

The Case for Including Convicted Felons in Our Jury System

James M. Binnall (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2021
288 Seiten
University of California Press (Verlag)
978-0-520-97657-3 (ISBN)

Infos

Today, all but one U.S. jurisdiction restricts a convicted felon’s eligibility for jury service. Are there valid, legal reasons for banishing millions of Americans from the jury process? How do felon-juror exclusion statutes impact convicted felons, jury systems, and jurisdictions that impose them? Twenty Million Angry Men provides the first full account of this pervasive yet invisible form of civic marginalization. Drawing on extensive research, James M. Binnall challenges the professed rationales for felon-juror exclusion and highlights the benefits of inclusion as they relate to criminal desistance at the individual and community levels. Ultimately, this forward-looking book argues that when it comes to serving as a juror, a history of involvement in the criminal justice system is an asset, not a liability.
 

Inhalt

Acknowledgments

Introduction 
1 • Framing the Issue
2 • Rotten to the Core?
3 • Honor Among Thieves
4 • Sequestering the Convicted: Part I
5 • Sequestering the Convicted: Part II
6 • Criminal-Desistance Summoned
7 • A Community Change Agent
8 • A Healthy Ambivalence
Conclusion 

Epilogue
Appendix A 
Appendix B
Appendix C
Notes 
References
Index

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 16.2.2021
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Recht / Steuern ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• Themenwelt: Recht / Steuern ► EU / Internationales Recht
• Themenwelt: Recht / Steuern ► Strafrecht ► Kriminologie
• Themenwelt: Recht / Steuern ► Strafrecht ► Strafverfahrensrecht
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik
• ISBN-10: 0-520-97657-6 / 0520976576
• ISBN-13: 978-0-520-97657-3 / 9780520976573