Rehabilitating Criminal Justice

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).

• 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.

'Rehabilitating Criminal Justice is an important book with many valuable reform proposals by one of the leading thinkers in America on criminal justice. It is an important addition to the literature on criminal justice reform and offers a package of solutions that are bold but feasible, thus presenting itself as a realistic alternative to calls for abolition. We need more scholarship like this, which aims for dramatic changes to address mass incarceration but that is attuned to the need to continue to provide a regime that will keep the public safe and be politically palatable.' Rachel Barkow, author of Prisoners of Politics: Breaking the Cycle of Mass Incarceration and Justice Abandoned: How the Supreme Court Ignored the Constitution and Enabled Mass Incarceration