A revelatory account of the misdemeanor machine that unjustly brands millions of Americans as wrongdoers Penalty Without Crime offers an immediate new analysis of inequality and injustice in America by examining the paradigmatic American offense: the lowly misdemeanor. This misdemeanor device starts punishing individuals long before they are founded guilty; it punishes the innocent; and it penalizes conduct that never ought to have been a criminal offense. For too long, misdemeanors have been ignored.
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