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Law Without Justice: Why Criminal Law Doesn't Give People What They Deserve Hardcover - 2005 - 1st Edition

by Michael T. Cahill; Paul H. Robinson


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If an innocent person is sent to prison or if a killer walks free, we are outraged. The legal system assures us, and we expect and demand, that it will seek to "do justice" in criminal cases. So why, for some cases, does the criminal law deliberately and routinely sacrifice justice? In this unflinching look at American criminal law, Paul Robinson and Michael Cahill demonstrate that cases with unjust outcomes are not always irregular or unpredictable. Rather, the criminal law sometimes chooses not to give defendants what they deserve: that is, unsatisfying results occur even when the system works as it is designed to work. The authors find that while some justice-sacrificing doctrines serve their intended purpose, many others do not, or could be replaced by other, better rules that would serve the purpose without abandoning a just result. With a panoramic view of the overlapping and often competing goals that our legal institutions must balance on a daily basis, Law without
Justice challenges us to restore justice to the criminal justice system.

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  • Title Law Without Justice: Why Criminal Law Doesn't Give People What They Deserve
  • Author Michael T. Cahill; Paul H. Robinson
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition number 1st
  • Edition 1
  • Pages 336
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Oxford University Press, USA, Oxford
  • Date 2005-12-01
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Bibliography, Dust Cover, Illustrated, Index, Table of Contents
  • ISBN 9780195160154 / 0195160150
  • Weight 1.33 lbs (0.60 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.44 x 6.4 x 1.14 in (23.98 x 16.26 x 2.90 cm)
  • Library of Congress subjects Criminal justice, Administration of - United, Judicial error - United States
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2005004637
  • Dewey Decimal Code 345.73

About the author


Paul Robinson, the Colin S. Diver Distinguished Professor of Law at the University of Pennsylvania, is one of the world's leading experts on criminal law. His non-academic work includes service as a federal prosecutor, as counsel for the U.S. Senate Subcommittee on Criminal Laws and Procedures, and as one of the original Commissioners of the United States Sentencing Commission.
Michael Cahill is Assistant Professor at Brooklyn Law School. Prior to his academic career, he served as Staff Director for the Illinois Criminal Code Rewrite and Reform Commission and was a consultant for the Kentucky Penal Code Revision Project.
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