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The Supreme Court's role in mass incarceration / William T. Pizzi.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Pizzi, William T., 1943- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- United States. Supreme Court--Influence.
- United States.
- United States. Supreme Court.
- Sentences (Criminal procedure)--United States.
- Sentences (Criminal procedure).
- Criminal procedure--Social aspects.
- Criminal procedure.
- Imprisonment--United States.
- Imprisonment.
- Plea bargaining--United States.
- Plea bargaining.
- Criminal procedure--Social aspects--United States.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (x, 148 pages) : illustrations
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY ; Routledge, 2021.
- System Details:
- text file
- Biography/History:
- William T. Pizzi is Professor of Law Emeritus at the University of Colorado Law School. He is a graduate of Harvard Law School and he also holds an advanced degree in philosophy from the University of Massachusetts. Following law school, Professor Pizzi was a federal prosecutor in the District of New Jersey before joining the faculty at Colorado Law where he taught for thirty-five years. He is one of the foremost scholars in the United States on comparative criminal issues. He has lectured abroad for both the Ford Foundation and theUnited StatesInformation Agency.
- Contents:
- Mass incarceration and its "causes"
- The risks of constitutional rule-making
- The federal system, state systems, and Miranda
- The vanishing trial and mass incarceration
- Must fair trials be jury trials?
- The shift from indeterminate sentences to determinate sentences
- Plea bargaining in the U.S. : coercing guilty pleas
- The Supreme Court : uncertain on proportionality...endorsing deterrence
- U.S. sentencing chaos and the emergence of sentencing guidelines systems
- The Supreme Court : an obstacle to reform
- Extreme adversarialism, muted adversarialism, and the slow death of trials
- Where do we go from here?
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Electronic reproduction. London Available via World Wide Web.
- Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on January 20, 2021).
- Other Format:
- Print version: Pizzi, William T., 1943- The Supreme Court's role in mass incarceration
- ISBN:
- 9780429318207
- 0429318200
- 9781000180466
- 1000180468
- 9781000180442
- 1000180441
- 9781000180428
- 1000180425
- Publisher Number:
- 40030309539
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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