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Arbitrary Justice: The Power of the American Prosecutor

[In five years of blogging, I've maybe posted maybe half a dozen press releases.  When I do post a release, it's never for a fee,  or as a quid pro quo for a review copy of the book.]  Arbitrary Justice was just released in paperback, though, and it seems promising.  Check it out.In the award winning Arbitrary Justice: The Power of the American Prosecutor Angela Davis takes on the popular perception of prosecutors as justice seekers and crime fighters, showing how their actions are responsible for tremendous inequities in criminal justice.  Davis uses powerful stories of individuals caught in this system to illustrate how prosecutors exercise their discretion haphazardly at worst and arbitrarily at best.  A new afterword covers the Duke Lacrosse case, the Jena Six cases, the Genarlow Wilson case, and Alberto Gonzales U...continue to full post

Full post as published by Crime & Federalism on May 15, 2009 (boomark / email).