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