TY - BOOK AU - Bright,Stephen B. AU - Kwak,James TI - The fear of too much justice: race, poverty, and the persistence of inequality in the criminal courts SN - 9781620970256 PY - 2023/// CY - New York PB - The New Press KW - Discrimination in criminal justice administration KW - United States KW - Criminal justice, Administration of KW - Public prosecutors KW - Racism in criminal justice administration N1 - Includes bibliographical references (pages 269-331) and index; The myth of the adversary system -- The all-powerful prosecutor -- A poor person's justice -- Judges and the politics of crime -- The whitewashed jury -- Courts of profit -- The madness of measuring mental disorders -- An excess of punishment -- More justice, less crime N2 - "A legendary lawyer and a legal scholar reveal the structural failures that undermine justice in our criminal courts. The Fear of Too Much Justice offers a timely, trenchant, firsthand critique of our criminal courts and points the way toward a more just future"-- ER -