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The latest must-read from Prof. Stuntz

By Douglas A. Berman

Though I do not always accept Professor Bill Stunz's anaylsis, I always learn and am provoked by his scholarly work.  His latest opus, entitled "Unequal Justice," in now in print here at the Harvard Law Review.  Here is the abstract:Inequality is a core feature of American criminal justice, but its causes remain obscure.  Official racism has declined even as the black share of the prison population has risen. The generation that saw the rise of enormous, racially skewed punishment for drug crime followed the generation that saw the rise of civil rights for black Americans and racially integrated police forces.  What explains these trends?  One answer ? the decline of local democracy ? has received too little attention in the growing literature on this subject...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on June 18, 2008 (boomark / email).