Justice Abandoned: How the Supreme Court Ignored the Constitution and Enabled Mass Incarceration

By Rachel Elise Barkow

Categories: Law, Politics & Social Sciences

An NYU law professor shows how Supreme Court decisions weakened constitutional limits on criminal punishment and helped drive mass incarceration in the United States.

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• Fareed Zakaria: “She is a professor at NYU Law School, and she has a terrific book out next month on a somewhat different but important topic, "Justice Abandoned."”