The political heart of criminal procedure [electronic resource] : essays on themes of William J. Stuntz / edited by Michael Klarman, David Skeel, Carol Steiker.
"This volume brings together twelve leading American criminal justice scholars whose own writings have been profoundly influenced by William Stuntz and his work"-- "The past several decades have seen a renaissance in criminal procedure as a cutting-edge discipline and as one inseparably linked to su...
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Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2012.
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The Political Heart of Criminal Procedure: Essays on Themes of William J. Stuntz |
| Format: | Electronic eBook |
Contents:
- Part I. The Political Economy of Substantive Criminal Law
- Political dysfunction and the machinery of capital punishment / Joseph L. Hoffmann
- Bill Stuntz and the principal-agent problem in American criminal law / Richard H. McAdams
- Overcriminalization for lack of better options / Daniel Richman
- Stealing Bill Stuntz / David Alan Sklansky
- Part II. Police Investigation
- The accidental feminist / Anne Coughlin
- The distribution of dignity and the Fourth Amendment / Tracey Meares
- Why courts should not quantify probable cause / Orin Kerr
- DNA and the Fifth Amendment / Erin Murphy
- Part III. Emotion, Discretion, and the Judicial Role
- Two conceptions of two conceptions of emotion in criminal law : an essay inspired by Bill Stuntz / Dan Kahan
- Patrolling the fence line : how the court only sometimes cares about preserving its role in criminal cases / Andrew Leipold
- Three puzzles in the work of Bill Stuntz / Louis Michael Seidman
- The mercy seat : discretion, justice, and mercy in the American criminal justice system / Carol Steiker
- Epilogue : three underrated explanations for the punitive turn / Bill Stuntz.