Posts tagged “justice system” from shorter posts

May 8, 2008
The U.S.'s Peculiar Brand of Law and Order
The New York Times' Adam Liptak has a terrific series on the exceptionalism of the American justice system, highlighting five ways in which the U.S. stands apart from the rest of the world: the classification of children as adults, the holding of accomplices to murder as liable as those who do the actual killing, a for-profit bail system, the awarding of punitive damages, and the rate at which our citizens are incarcerated.
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