Private Criminal Justice - Softcover

Simmons, Ric

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1009347136 ISBN 13: 9781009347136

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2023

Synopsis

The United States is in the midst of a significant re-evaluation of its criminal justice system, with increasing calls for reforming or defunding the police and efforts to curb mass incarceration. But focusing on the public criminal justice system paints an incomplete picture of how we address criminal activity. In Private Criminal Justice, Ric Simmons shows how significant amounts of criminal activity are detected by private police and how many disputes are settled, not in public courts, but through informal agreements between the victim and the accused or through adjudicative procedures run by private institutions. In this timely and eye-opening book, Simmons examines the vast, diverse, and under-appreciated private criminal justice system, suggesting reforms that can make these private responses more fair and revealing lessons the private criminal justice system can teach reformers of the public criminal justice system.

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About the Author

Ric Simmons is a Professor of Law at the Ohio State University Moritz College of Law. He is the author of Smart Surveillance: How to Interpret the Fourth Amendment in the Twenty-First Century (2019) and the co-author of four textbooks on Criminal Procedure and Evidence.

Edition details

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 2023
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1009347136
• ISBN 13: 9781009347136
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 254