(Law) School to Prison Pipeline

Mass incarceration is also a legal phenomenon, and the role of the legal profession needs scrutiny.Unless we are to characterize the legal profession as unthinking or malevolent, we need an account of why so many lawyers have chosen and still choose to pursue convictions and prison sentences on such a massive scale."-Alice Ristroph 1

Publication Details

Journal
Minnesota journal of law & inequality
Published
2025-01-01
DOI
https://doi.org/10.24926/25730037.711
Primary Topic
Legal Systems and Judicial Processes
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(Law) School to Prison Pipeline

Minnesota journal of law & inequality
Legal Systems and Judicial Processes
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(Law) School to Prison Pipeline

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Abstract

Mass incarceration is also a legal phenomenon, and the role of the legal profession needs scrutiny.Unless we are to characterize the legal profession as unthinking or malevolent, we need an account of why so many lawyers have chosen and still choose to pursue convictions and prison sentences on such a massive scale."-Alice Ristroph 1

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