"This book is a must-read for anyone who wants to tackle mass incarceration, by one of the country\'s most thoughtful scholars." --Rachel E.
She lives in Chapel Hill, North Carolina..
She also has one of the most informative and useful Twitter accounts for anyone interested in criminal justice.
Her work on the criminal justice system has been published by the Los Angeles Times , the Philadelphia Inquirer , Slate , and numerous academic journals.
Before joining the faculty at UNC, she taught at the law schools of Arizona State, Harvard, and the University of Utah.
About author(s): Carissa Byrne Hessick is the Ransdell Distinguished Professor of Law at the University of North Carolina School of Law, where she also serves as the director of the Prosecutors and Politics Project.
An impassioned, urgent argument about the future of criminal justice reform, Punishment Without Trial will change the way you view the criminal justice system.
Professor Hessick makes the case against Plea Bargaining as she illustrates how it has damaged our justice system while presenting an innovative set of reforms for how we can fix it.
It forces the hand of lawyers, judges, and defendants, turning our legal system into a ruthlessly efficient mass incarceration machine that is dogging our jails and punishing citizens because it\'s the path of least resistance.
Punishment Without Trial showcases how Plea Bargaining has undermined justice at every turn and across socioeconomic and racial divides.
Nearly every aspect of our criminal justice system encourages defendants-whether they\'re innocent or guilty-to take a Plea deal.
That bedrock constitutional right has all but disappeared thanks to the unstoppable march of Plea bargaining, which began to take hold during Prohibition and has skyrocketed since 1971, when it was affirmed as constitutional by the Supreme Court.
But in Punishment Without Trial: Why Plea Bargaining Is a Bad Deal , University of North Carolina law professor Carissa Byrne Hessick shows that the popular conception of a jury trial couldn\'t be further from reality.
It\'s supposed to be the foundation that undergirds our entire justice system.
Constitution and the Bill of Rights.
The right to a trial by jury is enshrined in both the body of the U.
S.
It\'s a fair assumption.
Barkow, author of Prisoners of Politics: Breaking the Cycle of Mass Incarceration A provocative and timely exploration of how Plea Bargaining prevents true criminal justice reform and how we can fix it When Americans think of the criminal justice system, the image that comes to mind is a trial-a standard courtroom scene with a defendant, attorneys, a judge, and most important, a jury. "This book is a must-read for anyone who wants to tackle mass incarceration, by one of the country\'s most thoughtful scholars." --Rachel E
