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This month Jon Sands reviews Deep Delta Justice: A Black Teen, His Lawyer, and Their Groundbreaking Battle for Civil Rights in the South by Matthew Van Meter.
This month Teresa J. “Teri” Sopp reviews Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents by Isabel Wilkerson.
This month Bob Hurley reviews Bones of Black Saints by Alex Charns.
This month David R. Dow reviews A Descending Spiral: Exposing the Death Penalty in 12 Essays by Marc Bookman.
This month Richard Levitt reviews Legal Sabotage: Ernst Fraenkel in Hitler’s Germany by Douglas G. Morris.
Impartial Justice is chock full of analysis about what constitutes a neutral, impartial, and unbiased decisionmaker. Part one focuses on juries, part two judges, and part three noncourt settings. Part one and two are of particular interest to the criminal justice practitioner and important in light of recent action by the U.S. Supreme Court.
This month the Honorable John L. Kane reviews Why the Innocent Plead Guilty and the Guilty Go Free: And Other Paradoxes of Our Broken Legal System by Jed S. Rakoff.
This month Dana L. Cook reviews Social Work, Criminal Justice and the Death Penalty by Lauren A. Ricciardelli (ed.).
This month David Patton reviews Gideon’s Promise: A Public Defender Movement to Transform Criminal Justice by Jonathan Rapping.
This month Susan Elizabeth Reese reviews American Prison: A Reporter’s Undercover Journey Into the Business of Punishment by Shane Bauer.
Book Reviews Various Authors March 2001 66 Legal Alchemy: The Use and Misuse of Science in the Law By Professor David L. Faigman W.H. Freeman Company (1999); $24.95, Hardcover Reviewed by Ed Imwinkelried David L. Faigman is a professor of law at the University of California, Hastings School o
This month Russell Stetler reviews Criminality in Context: The Psychological Foundations of Criminal Justice Reform by Craig Haney.
This month Robert C. Boruchowitz reviews Punishment Without Crime by Alexandra Natapoff.
This month John Wesley Hall reviews Disloyal: The True Story of the Former Personal Attorney to President Donald J. Trump by Michael Cohen.
This month Michael G. Martin reviews Helena Star: An Epic Adventure Through the Murky Underworld of International Drug Smuggling by Stewart Riley.
