Bibliograph

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Let's get free, a hip-hop theory of justice, Paul Butler

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references

resource.biographical

contains biographical information

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Let's get free

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

286490647

Responsibility statement

Paul Butler

Sub title

a hip-hop theory of justice

Summary

Product Description: Paul Butler was an ambitious federal prosecutor, a Harvard Law grad who traded in his corporate law salary to fight the good fight. It was those years on the front lines that convinced him that the American criminal justice system is fundamentally broken--it's not making the streets safer, nor helping the people he'd hoped, as a prosecutor, to protect. In Let's Get Free, Butler, now an award-winning law professor, looks at several places where ordinary citizens interact with the justice system--as jurors, crime witnesses, and in encounters with the police--and explores what "doing the right thing" means in a corrupt system. Butler's provocative proposals include jury nullification--voting "not guilty" in certain non-violent cases as a form of protest, just saying "no" when the police request your permission to search, and refusing to work inside the criminal justice system. And his groundbreaking "hip-hop theory of justice" reveals an important analysis of crime and punishment found in pop culture

Table Of Contents

The hunter gets captured by the game : a prosecutor meets American criminal justice -- Safety first : why mass incarceration matters -- Justice on drugs -- Jury duty : power to the people -- Patriot acts : don't be a snitch, do be a witness, and don't always help the police -- Should good people be prosecutors? -- A hip-hop theory of justice -- Droppin' science : high-tech justice -- The beautiful struggle : seven ways to take back justice

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