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Author:
Karakatsanis, Alec, 1983- author.
Title:
Usual cruelty : the complicity of lawyers in the criminal injustice system / Alec Karakatsanis.
Publisher:
The New Press,
Copyright Date:
2019
Description:
231 pages ; 20 cm
Subject:
Criminal justice, Administration of--Corrupt practices--United States.
Public prosecutors--United States--Malpractice.
Criminal defense lawyers--United States--Malpractice.
Criminal justice, Administration of--Corrupt practices.
United States.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references.
Contents:
Introduction -- The Punishment Bureaucracy -- The Human Lawyer -- Policing, Mass Imprisonment, and the Failure of American Lawyers
Summary:
"From an award-winning civil rights lawyer, a profound challenge to our society's normalization of the caging of human beings, and the role of the legal profession in perpetuating it"-- Provided by publisher.
ISBN:
1620975270
9781620975275
OCLC:
(OCoLC)1100626951
LCCN:
2019035085
Locations:
BOPG851 -- Ames Public Library (Ames)
BAPH771 -- Des Moines Public Library (Des Moines)
OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

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