Sentencing Law and Policy: Reviewing thoughtfully the a history of public defenders in the United States
Writing in The Nation, Matthew Clair has this new extended review of Sara Mayeux's recent book, In her new book, Free Justice: A History of the Public Defender in Twentieth-Century America, Sara Mayeux provides a definitive history of this important yet conflicted institution, documenting along the way how liberal legal reforms can function to legitimate material inequalities and distract from more robust commitments to social justice. Taking readers from the Progressive Era to the height of the Cold War, Mayeux shows the stages by which influential reformers crafted our current indigent-de...
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