Judicial Policy Making and the Modern State: How the Courts Reformed America's Prisons (Cambridge Studies in Criminology)
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Type
Book
Authors
Feeley ( Malcolm M. Feeley )
ISBN 10
0521777348
ISBN 13
9780521777346
Category
Main Library
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Publication Year
2000
Publisher
Pages
508
Description
Between 1965 and 1990, federal judges in almost all of the states handed down sweeping rulings that affected virtually every prison and jail in the United States. Without a doubt judges were the most important prison reformers during this period. This book provides an account of this process, and uses it to explore the more general issue of the role of courts in the modern bureaucratic state. It provides detailed accounts of how the courts formulated and sought to implement their orders, and how this action affected the traditional conception of federalism, separation of powers, and the rule of law. - from Amzon
Number of Copies
1
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