A Pattern of Violence: How the Law Classifies Crimes and What It Means for Justice

Before the 1960s, the distinction between violent and nonviolent crime played hardly any role in the law. Since then, the number of crimes deemed violent has skyrocketed. David Alan Sklansky shows how shifting and inconsistent legal definitions of violence have fueled mass incarceration, protected abusive police, and undermined criminal justice.

• | Author: David Alan Sklansky
• | Publisher: Belknap Press: An Imprint of Harvard University Press
• | Publication Date: March 23, 2021
• | Number of Pages: 336 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Hardcover
• | ISBN-10: 0674248902
• | ISBN-13: 9780674248908