Usual Cruelty (eBook)

The Complicity of Lawyers in the Criminal Injustice System

Alec Karakatsanis (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2019
The New Press (Verlag)
978-1-62097-528-2 (ISBN)

Infos

From an award-winning civil rights lawyer, a profound challenge to our society's normalization of the caging of human beings, and the role of the legal profession in perpetuating it Alec Karakatsanis is interested in what we choose to punish. For example, it is a crime in most of America for poor people to wager in the streets over dice; dice-wagerers can be seized, searched, have their assets forfeited, and be locked in cages. It's perfectly fine, by contrast, for people to wager over international currencies, mortgages, or the global supply of wheat; wheat-wagerers become names on the wings of hospitals and museums.He is also troubled by how the legal system works when it is trying to punish people. The bail system, for example, is meant to ensure that people return for court dates. But it has morphed into a way to lock up poor people who have not been convicted of anything. He's so concerned about this that he has personally sued court systems across the country, resulting in literally tens of thousands of people being released from jail when their money bail was found to be unconstitutional.Karakatsanis doesn't think people who have gone to law school, passed the bar, and sworn to uphold the Constitution should be complicit in the mass caging of human beings an everyday brutality inflicted disproportionately on the bodies and minds of poor people and people of color and for which the legal system has never offered sufficient justification. Usual Cruelty is a profoundly radical reconsideration of the American "e;injustice system"e; by someone who is actively, wildly successfully, challenging it.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 29.10.2019
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Recht / Steuern ► Arbeits- / Sozialrecht ► Arbeitsrecht
• Themenwelt: Recht / Steuern ► EU / Internationales Recht
• Themenwelt: Recht / Steuern ► Strafrecht ► Strafverfahrensrecht
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Staat / Verwaltung
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
• Schlagworte: Abolition • asset forfeiture • Atlanta • bail • bail system • cash bail • Civil Rights • class action lawsuit • College • Communities • copaganda • court system • Crime • criminalization • criminal justice • criminal justice system • Criminal Punishment • Criminal Record • Data • Decriminalization • defense attorneys • Drugs • economic self-interest • Education • electronic incarceration • felony • Fraud • Georgia • Graduation • HBCUs • higher education • Illegal • illicit • Injustice • jail • Judges • Justice system • Law • Law School • law student • Lawsuit • lawyer • Lawyers • Legal ethics • legal profess • Legal system • Low-Income Students • Marijuana • Mass Incarceration • misdemeanor • money bail • “Moneyball • parole • post-carceral • Poverty • Prison • Probation • Prosecutors • Public defenders • racial bias • racial profiling • radical • Sentencing • Social mobility • stop-and-frisk • structural racism • ” students • unconstitutional • Universities • wealth-based detention
• ISBN-10: 1-62097-528-9 / 1620975289
• ISBN-13: 978-1-62097-528-2 / 9781620975282