Charged: the new movement to transform American prosecution and end mass incarceration

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Bazelon, Emily

Bazelon, Emily

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Wake Forest Community

Adult Non-Fiction

Cary Regional - Adult Non-Fiction
Eva H. Perry Regional - Adult Non-Fiction
Leesville Community - Adult Non-Fiction
Middlecreek Community - Adult Non-Fiction
North Regional - Adult Non-Fiction
Northeast Regional - Adult Non-Fiction
Oberlin Regional - Adult Non-Fiction
Southeast Regional - Adult Non-Fiction
Wake Forest Community - Adult Non-Fiction

"A renowned investigative journalist exposes the unchecked power of the prosecutor as a driving force in America's mass incarceration crisis, and also offers a way out. The American criminal justice system is supposed to be a contest between two equal adversaries, the prosecution and the defense, with judges ensuring a fair fight. But in fact, it is prosecutors who have the upper hand, in a contest that is far from equal. More than anyone else, prosecutors decide who goes free and who goes to prison, and even who lives and who dies. The system wasn't designed for this kind of unchecked power, and in Charged, Emily Bazelon shows that it is an underreported cause of enormous injustice--and the missing piece in the mass incarceration puzzle. But that's only half the story. Prosecution in America is at a crossroads. The power of prosecutors makes them the actors in the system--the only actors--who can fix what's broken without changing a single law. They can end mass incarceration, protect against coercive plea bargains and convicting the innocent, and tackle racial bias. And because in almost every state we, the people, elect prosecutors, it is within our power to reshape the choices they make. In the last few years, for the first time in American history, a wave of reform-minded prosecutors has taken office in major cities throughout the country. Bazelon follows them, showing the difference they make for people caught in the system and how they are coming together as a new kind of lobby for justice and mercy. In Charged, Emily Bazelon mounts a major critique of the American criminal justice system--and charts the movement for change"--

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2025-05-10T09:13:51.388Z

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Non Fiction

Non Fiction

345.73 BAZEL

Wake County Public Libraries

Cary Regional
Eva H. Perry Regional
Leesville Community
Middle Creek Community
North Regional
Northeast Regional
Oberlin Regional
Southeast Regional
Wake Forest Community

9780399590016

2019

Random House

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Criminal justice, Administration of -- Corrupt practices -- United States
Imprisonment -- United States
Prosecution -- United States -- Decision making
Prosecutorial misconduct -- United States
Public prosecutors -- United States
Sentences (Criminal procedure) -- United States

Charged : the new movement to transform American prosecution and end mass incarceration

Charged : the new movement to transform American prosecution and end mass incarceration / Emily Bazelon

Charged

the new movement to transform American prosecution and end mass incarceration

Corrupt practices
Criminal justice, Administration of
Decision making
Imprisonment
Prosecution
Prosecutorial misconduct
Public prosecutors
Sentences (Criminal procedure)