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Highlights
- "An eye-opening account of the criminal justice system's often overlooked creaky gears.
- About the Author: Issa Kohler-Hausmann is associate professor of law and sociology at Yale University.
- 324 Pages
- Social Science, Criminology
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About the Book
A criminal defense attorney, sociologist, and legal scholar takes readers inside New York City's lower criminal courts.Book Synopsis
"An eye-opening account of the criminal justice system's often overlooked creaky gears."--Sam Roberts, New York Times
In the early 1990s, New York City launched an initiative under the banner of Broken Windows policing to dramatically expand enforcement against low-level offenses. Misdemeanorland is the first book to document the fates of the hundreds of thousands of people hauled into lower criminal courts as part of this policing experiment. Drawing on three years of fieldwork inside and outside of the courtroom, in-depth interviews, and analysis of trends in arrests and dispositions of misdemeanors going back three decades, Issa Kohler-Hausmann shows how the lower reaches of our criminal justice system operate as a form of social control and surveillance, often without adjudicating cases or imposing formal punishment. Misdemeanorland describes in harrowing detail how the reach of America's penal state extends well beyond the shocking numbers of people incarcerated in prisons or stigmatized by a felony conviction.Review Quotes
"Finalist for the 2018 C. Wright Mills Award, Society for the Study of Social Problems"
"Winner of the Albert J. Reiss Distinguished Scholarly Publication Award, Crime, Law, and Deviance Section of the American Sociological Association"
"Winner of the Herbert Jacob Book Prize, Law and Society Association"
"Winner of the 2019 Mirra Komarovsky Book Award, Eastern Sociological Society"
About the Author
Issa Kohler-Hausmann is associate professor of law and sociology at Yale University.Dimensions (Overall): 8.8 Inches (H) x 5.7 Inches (W) x .8 Inches (D)
Weight: .95 Pounds
Suggested Age: 22 Years and Up
Number of Pages: 324
Genre: Social Science
Sub-Genre: Criminology
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Format: Paperback
Author: Issa Kohler-Hausmann
Language: English
Street Date: August 27, 2019
TCIN: 85842746
UPC: 9780691196114
Item Number (DPCI): 247-15-7656
Origin: Made in the USA or Imported
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