Rehabilitating Criminal Justice

Erscheinungsjahr 2025
ISBN: 978-1-009-58692-4
Verlag: Cambridge University Press

Buch, Englisch, 320 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 482 g

Rehabilitating Criminal Justice offers bold yet sensible proposals for reforming every major component of the US criminal justice system. The first third of the book explains how existing caselaw can be interpreted to end over-policing, better regulate interrogations, and replace the exclusionary rule with direct sanctions on officers and their departments. The second part of the book, on the post-arrest adjudication process, calls for replacing cash bail with validated risk assessments and proposes to reorient our error-prone, hyper-adversarial system by ending convictions via guilty pleas and giving judges more power over questioning of witnesses and the selection of experts. The final chapters show how the harshness of the system can be leavened by refocusing sentencing on prevention rather than retribution and by creating an independent criminal court system. They also explain why these reforms are preferable to the currently popular movement to defund police departments and abolish prisons.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Slobogin, Christopher

Über Autor(innen)

Slobogin, Christopher
Christopher Slobogin is the Milton R. Underwood Chair in Law at Vanderbilt University. He is one of the five most cited criminal law and procedure scholars in the United States, with citations in over 6000 law review articles and treatises and more than 250 judicial opinions. Slobogin has published over 200 articles and chapters, as well as multiple books, including Just Algorithms: Using Science to Reduce Incarceration and Inform a Jurisprudence of Risk (2021).