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Misdemeanorland: Social Control and New York City's Lower-Level Courts
Category: Government & Organizations
Duration: 00:00:00
Publish Date: 2018-10-26 11:55:58
Description: In Misdemeanorland, Issa Kohler-Hausmann argues the lower courts are no longer primarily concerned with whether people actually committed the offense they’ve been accused of. Instead, the focus is on future behavior: upholding social order through managing and assessing—often over long stretches—everyone with the misfortune of entering Misdemeanorland. It's an argument that forces us to rethink what justice should look like in low-level cases.
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