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If an innocent person is sent to prison or if a killer walks free, we are outraged. The legal system assures us, and we expect and demand, that it will seek to "do justice" in criminal cases. So why, for some cases, does the criminal law deliberately and routinely sacrifice justice? In this unflinching look at American criminal law, Paul Robinson and Michael Cahill demonstrate that cases with unjust outcomes are not always irregular or unpredictable. Rather, the criminal law sometimes chooses not to give defendants what they deserve: that is, unsatisfying results occur even when the system works as it is designed to work. The authors find that while some justice-sacrificing doctrines serve their intended purpose, many others do not, or could be replaced by other, better rules that would serve the purpose without abandoning a just result. With a panoramic view of the overlapping and often competing goals that our legal institutions must balance on a daily basis, "Law without Justice" challenges us to restore justice to the criminal justice system.

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Book category Books in English Law Laws of Specific jurisdictions Criminal law & procedure

• Full title: Law without Justice
• Subtitle: Why Criminal Law Doesn't Give People What They Deserve
• Author: Paul H. Robinson, Michael T. Cahill
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 336
• EAN: 9780195160154
• ISBN: 0195160150
• ID: 04515896
• Publisher: Oxford University Press Inc
• Weight: 602 g
• Dimensions: 242 × 165 × 25 mm
• Date of publishing: 05. January 2006

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