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Title:

When law fails : making sense of miscarriages of justice / edited by Charles J. Ogletree, Jr. and Austin Sarat.

Publisher:

New York University Press,

Copyright Date:

c2009

Description:

ix, 349 p. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Justice, Administration of--United States.

Other Authors:

Ogletree, Charles J.
Sarat, Austin.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

The case of "Death for a dollar ninety-five" : miscarriages of justice and constructions of American identity / Mary L. Dudziak -- When law fails : history, genius, and unhealed wounds after Tulsa's race riot / Charles J. Ogletree, Jr. -- Margins of error / Robert Weisberg -- Recovering the craft of policing : wrongful convictions, the war on crime, and the problem of security / Jonathan Simon -- Kalven and Zeisel in the twenty-first century : is the jury still the defendant's friend? / Daniel Givelber -- Extreme punishment / Douglas A. Berman -- Miscarriages of mercy? / Linda Ross Meyer -- Memorializing miscarriages of justice : clemency petitions in the killing state / Austin Sarat -- Miscarriage of justice as misnomer / Markus D. Dubber -- The scale of injustice / Patricia Ewick.

Series:

The Charles Hamilton Houston Institute series on race and justice

ISBN:

0814740529 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780814740521 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0814740510 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780814740514 (cloth : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)227931006

LCCN:

2008031464

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

PLAX964 -- Luther College - Preus Library (Decorah)

SOAX911 -- Simpson College - Dunn Library (Indianola)

N5UX522 -- University of Iowa Law Library (Iowa City)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

PMAX975 -- Morningside University - Hickman-Johnson-Furrow Library (Sioux City)

PQAX094 -- Wartburg College - Vogel Library (Waverly)