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The Collapse of American Criminal Justice

William J. Stuntz

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$23.00 • £18.95 • €20.50

ISBN 9780674725874

Publication Date: 10/07/2013

432 pages

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

4 charts, 11 tables

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William J. Stuntz was Henry J. Friendly Professor of Law at Harvard University.

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Read more about William Stuntz’s research in the Boston Globe, in a New Yorker feature on America’s accelerating rate of incarceration, and in Harvard Magazine
Read The Nation’s in-depth review of Stuntz’s life and legacy and the impact he made on the practice of criminal justice
Read an essay in Harper’s—informed by the author’s reading of Collapse—about problems with the presidential pardons system
In The Atlantic, read Ta-Nehisi Coates’s thoughts on two of Stuntz’s more controversial proposals
At Salon, read an adaptation of the Introduction to The Collapse of American Criminal Justice
Read the New York Times obituary for Professor Stuntz

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Honorable Mention, 2011 Association of American Publishers PROSE Award, Law & Legal Studies Category

A Green Bag Almanac & Reader Selection for Exemplary Legal Writing, 2011

A Library Journal Best Book of 2011

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