About Guilt and Innocence: The Origins, Development, and Future of Constitutional Criminal Procedure

by Donald A. Dripps

This remarkably original and vital work argues that the problems are rooted in a disjunction between prevailing values and the prevailing doctrinal regime in constitutional law. Dripps asserts that the Fourteenth Amendment's more general standards of due process and equal protection encompass the values that ought to govern the criminal process.

Why does the American criminal justice system punish too many innocent people, failing to punish...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0275977307
• ISBN13: 9780275977306
• Release Date: December 2002
• Publisher: Praeger
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.3" x 9.7"