Audiobook9 hours
Punishment Without Trial: Why Plea Bargaining is a Bad Deal
Written by Carissa Byrne Hessick
Narrated by Christina Delaine
Rating: 0 out of 5 stars
()
About this audiobook
When Americans think of the criminal justice system, the image that comes to mind is a trial-a standard courtroom scene with a defendant, attorneys, a judge, and most important, a jury. It's a fair assumption.
But in Punishment Without Trial: Why Plea Bargaining Is a Bad Deal, University of North Carolina law professor Carissa Byrne Hessick shows that the popular conception of a jury trial couldn't be further from reality. That bedrock constitutional right has all but disappeared thanks to the unstoppable march of plea bargaining, which began to take hold during Prohibition and has skyrocketed since 1971, when it was affirmed as constitutional by the Supreme Court.
Nearly every aspect of our criminal justice system encourages defendants-whether innocent or guilty-to take a plea deal. Punishment Without Trial showcases how plea bargaining has undermined justice at every turn and across socioeconomic and racial divides. It forces the hand of lawyers, judges, and defendants, turning our legal system into a ruthlessly efficient mass incarceration machine that is dogging our jails and punishing citizens. Professor Hessick makes the case against plea bargaining as she illustrates how it has damaged our justice system while presenting an innovative set of reforms for how we can fix it.
But in Punishment Without Trial: Why Plea Bargaining Is a Bad Deal, University of North Carolina law professor Carissa Byrne Hessick shows that the popular conception of a jury trial couldn't be further from reality. That bedrock constitutional right has all but disappeared thanks to the unstoppable march of plea bargaining, which began to take hold during Prohibition and has skyrocketed since 1971, when it was affirmed as constitutional by the Supreme Court.
Nearly every aspect of our criminal justice system encourages defendants-whether innocent or guilty-to take a plea deal. Punishment Without Trial showcases how plea bargaining has undermined justice at every turn and across socioeconomic and racial divides. It forces the hand of lawyers, judges, and defendants, turning our legal system into a ruthlessly efficient mass incarceration machine that is dogging our jails and punishing citizens. Professor Hessick makes the case against plea bargaining as she illustrates how it has damaged our justice system while presenting an innovative set of reforms for how we can fix it.
Related to Punishment Without Trial
Related audiobooks
Blind Injustice: A Former Prosecutor Exposes the Psychology and Politics of Wrongful Convictions Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5American Injustice: Inside Stories from the Underbelly of the Criminal Justice System Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5To Protect and Serve: How to Fix America's Police Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Duped: Why Innocent People Confess – and Why We Believe Their Confessions Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Suspicion Nation: The Inside Story of the Trayvon Martin Injustice and Why We Continue to Repeat It Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Blood, Powder, and Residue: How Crime Labs Translate Evidence into Proof Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsChokehold: Policing Black Men Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Locking Up Our Own: Crime and Punishment in Black America Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Defense Is Ready: Life in the Trenches of Criminal Law Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Thin Blue Lie: The Failure of High-Tech Policing Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Second Chance Club: Hardship and Hope After Prison Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Autopsy of a Crime Lab: Exposing the Flaws in Forensics Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Correction: Parole, Prison, and the Possibility of Change Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Bloodsworth: The True Story of the First Death Row Inmate Exonerated by DNA Evidence Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Beyond These Walls: Rethinking Crime and Punishment in the United States Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Usual Cruelty: The Complicity of Lawyers in the Criminal Justice System Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Why the Innocent Plead Guilty and the Guilty Go Free: And Other Paradoxes of Our Broken Legal System Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Unwarranted: Policing Without Permission Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5War On Us Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsBarred: Why the Innocent Can’t Get Out of Prison Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Presumed Guilty: How the Supreme Court Empowered the Police and Subverted Civil Rights Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5On Treason: A Citizen's Guide to the Law Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsFree Justice: A History of the Public Defender in Twentieth-Century America Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsBecause of Sex: One Law, Ten Cases, and Fifty Years That Changed American Women's Lives at Work Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Three Felonies A Day: How the Feds Target the Innocent Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Incarceration Nations: A Journey to Justice in Prisons Around the World Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5When Should Law Forgive? Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsJunk Science and the American Criminal Justice System Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5And Justice for Some: An Expose of the Lawyers and Judges Who Let Dangerous Criminals Go Free Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Closing the Courthouse Door: How Your Constitutional Rights Became Unenforceable Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5
Criminal Law For You
The Killer's Shadow: The FBI's Hunt for a White Supremacist Serial Killer Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Trigger: Narratives of the American Shooter Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Life Sentence: The Brief and Tragic Career of Baltimore’s Deadliest Gang Leader Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5When a Killer Calls: A Haunting Story of Murder, Criminal Profiling, and Justice in a Small Town Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Chokehold: Policing Black Men Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Picking Cotton: Our Memoir of Injustice and Redemption Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Perversion of Justice: The Jeffrey Epstein Story Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Three Felonies A Day: How the Feds Target the Innocent Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Courtroom 302: A Year Behind the Scenes in an American Criminal Courthouse Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Lady Killers: Deadly Women Throughout History Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Norco '80: The True Story of the Most Spectacular Bank Robbery in American History Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Reasonable Doubts: The O.J. Simpson Case and the Criminal Justice System Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Secret Barrister: Stories of the Law and How It's Broken Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Locking Up Our Own: Crime and Punishment in Black America Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5A Dark Room in Glitter Ball City: Murder, Secrets, and Scandal in Old Louisville Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Barred: Why the Innocent Can’t Get Out of Prison Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Why the Innocent Plead Guilty and the Guilty Go Free: And Other Paradoxes of Our Broken Legal System Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Conviction Machine: Standing Up to Federal Prosecutorial Abuse Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Riders Come Out at Night: Brutality, Corruption, and Cover Up in Oakland Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Alabama v. King: Martin Luther King Jr. and the Criminal Trial That Launched the Civil Rights Movement Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Innocent Blood: A True Story of Obsession and Serial Murder Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Fake Law: The Truth About Justice in an Age of Lies Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Usual Cruelty: The Complicity of Lawyers in the Criminal Justice System Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Insane: America's Criminal Treatment of Mental Illness Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Gangland: How the FBI Broke the Mob Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Hunting Whitey: The Inside Story of the Capture & Killing of America's Most Wanted Crime Boss Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Heart Full of Lies: A True Story of Desire and Death Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5
Reviews for Punishment Without Trial
Rating: 0 out of 5 stars
0 ratings
0 ratings0 reviews