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Prosecution Complex: America's Race to Convict and Its Impact on the Innocent - Softcover

Medwed, Daniel S.

 
9781479893089: Prosecution Complex: America's Race to Convict and Its Impact on the Innocent
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1479893080 ISBN 13: 9781479893089
Verlag: New York University, 2013

Inhaltsangabe

American prosecutors are asked to play two roles within the criminal justice system: they are supposed to be ministers of justice whose only goals are to ensure fair trials-and they are also advocates of the government whose success rates are measured by how many convictions they get. Because of this second role, sometimes prosecutors suppress evidence in order to establish a defendant's guilt and safeguard that conviction over time.
In Prosecution Complex, Daniel S. Medwed shows how prosecutors are told to lock up criminals and protect the rights of defendants. This double role creates an institutional "prosecution complex" that animates how district attorneys' offices treat potentially innocent defendants at all stages of the process-and that can cause prosecutors to aid in the conviction of the innocent. Ultimately, Prosecution Complex shows how, while most prosecutors aim to do justice, only some hit that target consistently.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Daniel S. Medwed is Professor of Law at Northeastern University School of Law and the 2013 recipient of the Robert D. Klein University Lectureship.

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Verlag
New York University
Erscheinungsdatum
2013
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1479893080
ISBN 13 
9781479893089
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
239
Kontakt zum Hersteller
Mare Nostrum Group B.V.
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