Are miscarriages of justice systemic or symptomatic, or are they mostly idiosyncratic? What are the broader implications of justice gone awry for the ways we think about law? Are there ways of reconceptualizing legal missteps that are particularly useful or illuminating? This title features the essays that address these questions.
The Impact of Jurors on Our Basic Freedoms : Great Jury Trials of Histor
Written by a judicial history student and veteran juror, this book compiles 12 cases from England and the US in which jurors have taken it upon themselves, as a matter of conscience, to nullify or overturn horrific laws that endangered our freedoms.
Improvements have been made through the increased use of support measures such as intermediaries and recorded testimony to facilitate the evidence of complainants. In addition, the courts have attempted to ensure that the most vulnerable defendants can participate more fully in criminal proceedings
Regulating the Covert World of Technological Policing
A close look at innovations in policing and the law that should govern them A host of technologies-among them digital cameras, drones, facial recognition devices, night-vision binoculars, automated license plate readers, GPS, geofencing, DNA matching, datamining, and artificial intelligence-have enabled police to carry out much of their work ......
This work challenges one of Western culture's most deeply-help assumptions: that violence against women is different from violence against men. It argues that this type of violence is rarely the result of sexism or hatred against women and that sexism may actually inhibit violence against women.
Why Our System of Criminal Trials Has Become an Expensive Failure and Wh
A study of the US criminal-justice system which argues that it places far too great an emphasis on winning and not nearly enough on truth. The author focuses on ways in which lawyers are permitted to dominate trials, the system's preference for weak judges, and the absurdities of plea bargaining.
Why Our System of Criminal Trials Has Become an Expensive Failure and Wh
A study of the US criminal-justice system which argues that it places far too great an emphasis on winning and not nearly enough on truth. The author focuses on ways in which lawyers are permitted to dominate trials, the system's preference for weak judges, and the absurdities of plea bargaining.
Surveillance, Race, and the Future of Law Enforcement
Winner, 2018 Law & Legal Studies PROSE Award The consequences of big data and algorithm-driven policing and its impact on law enforcement In a high-tech command center in downtown Los Angeles, a digital map lights up with 911 calls, television monitors track breaking news stories, surveillance cameras sweep the streets, and rows of networked ......
