William Stuntz's The Collapse Of The American Criminal Justice
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The United States imprisons more people than anywhere else in the world. It may seem logical to assume that fewer criminals are on the streets as a result of tough-on-crime policies from but the fall of crime in the last two decades is much serious. William Stuntz (2016), in The Collapse of the American Criminal Justice, address that “the justice system suffers from the rule of too much law, and from the rule of the wrong kind of politics” (p.284), the causes of these laws are discrimination, excess, and injustice which had a by-product of the system in general failing as a whole. Furthermore, the government has been an influence on the public and the laws they pass which oppress minorities and people of color, Stuntz states that “The goal