The Fear of Too Much Justice — When Efficiency Replaces Equal Justice
A legal system can promise equality while rewarding the institutions that move cases quickly, cheaply, and with minimal scrutiny.
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world.
Using The Fear of Too Much Justice: Race, Poverty, and the Persistence of Inequality in the Criminal Courts by Stephen B. Bright and James Kwak as our lens, this investigation examines why the American adversary process frequently fails poor defendants and people of color.
Bright and Kwak argue that most criminal cases are shaped not by balanced trials, but by prosecutorial charging…
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