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A Pattern of Violence: How the Law Classifies Crimes and What It Means for Justice

By David Alan Sklansky

Book information

Publisher
Harvard University Press
Year
2021
ISBN
9780674259713
DOI
10.4159/9780674259713
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
10 MB (10462074 bytes)
Pages
336\334
Library
degruyter.com
Time added
2023-08-22 08:24:23

Description

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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