A pattern of violence : how the law classifies crimes and what it means for justice / David Alan Sklansky.
"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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| Format: | Ebook |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge, Massachusetts :
The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press,
2021.
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| Online Access: | Click here to view this book |
| Summary: | "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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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 0674259718 9780674259713 |