Title Cruel and usual : our criminal injustice system / Rudolph J. Gerber ; foreword by Patrick M. Brennan

Published Westport, Conn. ; London : Praeger, 1999

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Description xix, 225 pages ; 25 cm Contents Foreword / Patrick M. Brennan -- I. Ignoring Principle. 1. Criminal Sentencing Policy and Politics. 2. A Judicial View of Plea Bargaining. 3. Death and Its Rebirth. 4. Principle and the Felony-Murder Rule -- II. Ignoring Data. 5. Marijuana Myopia. 6. The Drug War: Taking Minnows from the Pond. 7. Prisons and Counterproductivity. 8. The Politicization of Crime -- Conclusion: In Search of Principled Justice Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Subject Criminal justice, Administration of -- Moral and ethical aspects -- United States. Imprisonment -- Moral and ethical aspects -- United States. Criminal law -- United States. Judicial ethics -- United States. LC no. 99014853 ISBN 0275964752 :

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