Rehabilitating Criminal Justice: Innovations in Policing, Adjudication, and Sentencing

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Christopher Slobogin (Vanderbilt University, Tennessee)

Rehabilitating Criminal Justice

Innovations in Policing, Adjudication, and Sentencing

Christopher Slobogin (Vanderbilt University, Tennessee)

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Cambridge University Press
30 April 2025

Crime & criminology; Politics & government; Criminal justice law

Rehabilitating Criminal Justice offers bold yet sensible proposals for reforming every major component of the US criminal justice system. The first third of the book explains how existing caselaw can be interpreted to end over-policing, better regulate interrogations, and replace the exclusionary rule with direct sanctions on officers and their departments. The second part of the book, on the post-arrest adjudication process, calls for replacing cash bail with validated risk assessments and proposes to reorient our error-prone, hyper-adversarial system by ending convictions via guilty pleas and giving judges more power over questioning of witnesses and the selection of experts. The final chapters show how the harshness of the system can be leavened by refocusing sentencing on prevention rather than retribution and by creating an independent criminal court system.

They also explain why these reforms are preferable to the currently popular movement to defund police departments and abolish prisons.

By: Christopher Slobogin (Vanderbilt University Tennessee)
Imprint: Cambridge University Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
ISBN: 9781009586948
ISBN 10: 1009586947
Pages: 320
Publication Date: 30 April 2025
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Forthcoming

Preface; 1. Equality in the Streets; 2. Police ≠ Community Caretakers; 3. Making Interrogation Transparent; 4. Holding Police and Criminals Accountable; 5. Downsizing Pretrial Detention; 6. Accurate Adjudications: Lessons from a Death Penalty State; 7. Borrowing from European Trials; 8. Rationalizing Plea Bargaining; 9. Preventive Justice; 10. Reconciling Desert and Risk at Sentencing; 11. Specialized Criminal Courts; 12. Abolitionism v. Minimalism.

Christopher Slobogin is the Milton R. Underwood Chair in Law at Vanderbilt University. He is one of the five most cited criminal law and procedure scholars in the United States, with citations in over 6000 law review articles and treatises and more than 250 judicial opinions. Slobogin has published over 200 articles and chapters, as well as multiple books, including Just Algorithms: Using Science to Reduce Incarceration and Inform a Jurisprudence of Risk (2021).