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Injustice for All: How Financial Incentives Corrupted and Can Fix the US Criminal Justice System
Injustice for All systematically diagnoses why and where American criminal justice goes wrong, and offers functional proposals for reform. By changing who pays for what, how people are appointed, how people are punished, and which things are criminalized, we can make the US a country which guarantees justice for all.
Author(s) | By Chris Surprenant (Tulane University), Jason Brennan (McDonough School of Business, Georgetown University, USA). |
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Publisher | Taylor & Francis Ltd |
Format | Paperback / softback |
Pages | 178 |
Published in | United Kingdom |
Published | 9 Dec 2019 |
Availability | Available |
Injustice for All systematically diagnoses why and where American criminal justice goes wrong, and offers functional proposals for reform. By changing who pays for what, how people are appointed, how people are punished, and which things are criminalized, we can make the US a country which guarantees justice for all.
1. It's Worse than You Think 2. It's All For-Profit 3. What Should Be a Crime? 4. Incarceration on Trial 5. Crime Doesn't Pay, Unless You're the State 6. Poverty, Risk, and Crime 7. Changing the Rules. Changing the Incentives
Chris W. Surprenant is Professor of Philosophy at the University of New Orleans, where he directs the University Honors Program and is the founding director of the Urban Entrepreneurship and Policy Institute. He is the author of Kant and the Cultivation o