TY  - BOOK
AU  - Sklansky,David A.
TI  - A pattern of violence: how the law classifies crimes and what it means for justice 
SN  - 9780674248908
PY  - 2021///
CY  - Cambridge, Massachusetts, London, England
PB  - The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
KW  - Violence (Law)
KW  - United States
KW  - Violent crimes
KW  - Law and legislation
KW  - Political violence
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Violence as a legal problem -- Violent crime and violent criminals -- Police violence -- Rape and domestic assault -- Violence and youth -- Prison violence -- Speech and guns
N2  - "Before the 1960s, the distinction between violent and nonviolent crime played hardly any role in the law. Since then, the number of crimes deemed violent has skyrocketed. David Alan Sklansky shows how shifting and inconsistent legal definitions of violence have fueled mass incarceration, protected abusive police, and undermined criminal justice"--
ER  -