A Pattern of Violence

How the Law Classifies Crimes and What It Means for Justice

David Alan Sklansky

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$29.95 • £26.95 • €27.95

ISBN 9780674248908

Publication Date: 03/23/2021

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336 pages

6-1/8 x 9-1/4 inches

6 illus.

Belknap Press

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David Alan Sklansky is Stanley Morrison Professor of Law at Stanford Law School and faculty codirector of the Stanford Criminal Justice Center. A former assistant U.S. attorney in Los Angeles, he is author of Democracy and the Police.

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