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Author Karakatsanis, Alec, 1983- author.

Title Usual cruelty : the complicity of lawyers in the criminal injustice system / Alec Karakatsanis
Published New York : The New Press, 2019

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Description 1 online resource (231 pages)
Contents Introduction -- The Punishment Bureaucracy -- The Human Lawyer -- Policing, Mass Imprisonment, and the Failure of American Lawyers
Summary "From an award-winning civil rights lawyer, a profound challenge to our society's normalization of the caging of human beings, and the role of the legal profession in perpetuating it"-- Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references
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Subject Criminal justice, Administration of -- Corrupt practices -- United States
Public prosecutors -- Malpractice -- United States
Criminal defense lawyers -- Malpractice -- United States
LAW -- Criminal Procedure.
Public prosecutors -- Malpractice
Criminal defense lawyers -- Malpractice
Criminal justice, Administration of -- Corrupt practices
United States
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781620975282
1620975289