A pattern of violence: how the law classifies crimes and what it means for justice

"Before the 1960s, the distinction between violent and nonviolent crime played hardly any role in the law. Since then, the number of crimes deemed violent has skyrocketed. David Alan Sklansky shows how shifting and inconsistent legal definitions of violence have fueled mass incarceration, prote...

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Autor principal: Sklansky, David A. (Autor)
Tipo de documento: Electrónico Libro
Lenguaje:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge, Massachusetts London, England The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press 2021
En:Año: 2021
Acceso en línea: Índice
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Political Violence > United States
USA > Gewaltdelikt > Gewaltkriminalität > Recht
Violence (Law) > United States
Violent crimes > Law and legislation > United States
Publicación relacionada:Erscheint auch als: 1755596723
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Sumario:"Before the 1960s, the distinction between violent and nonviolent crime played hardly any role in the law. Since then, the number of crimes deemed violent has skyrocketed. David Alan Sklansky shows how shifting and inconsistent legal definitions of violence have fueled mass incarceration, protected abusive police, and undermined criminal justice"--
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