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Usual cruelty : the complicity of lawyers in the criminal injustice system / Alec Karakatsanis.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Karakatsanis, Alec, 1983- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Criminal justice, Administration of--Corrupt practices--United States.
- Criminal justice, Administration of.
- Public prosecutors--Malpractice--United States.
- Public prosecutors.
- Public prosecutors--Malpractice.
- Criminal justice, Administration of--Corrupt practices.
- United States.
- Criminal defense lawyers--Malpractice--United States.
- Criminal defense lawyers.
- Criminal defense lawyers--Malpractice.
- Physical Description:
- 231 pages ; 20 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : The New Press, 2019.
- Summary:
- "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"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Introduction
- The Punishment Bureaucracy
- The Human Lawyer
- Policing, Mass Imprisonment, and the Failure of American Lawyers
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references.
- ISBN:
- 9781620975275
- 1620975270
- OCLC:
- 1100626951
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