Punishment Without Crime: How Our Massive Misdemeanor System Traps The Innocent and Makes America More Unequal by Alexandra Natapoff, a professor at University of California-Irvine School of Law, is a compelling study of the corrosive effects of our unwieldy -- some 13 million misdemeanor charges are filed annually in the United States -- low-level misdemeanor crime system.
Professor Natapoff, a former public defender in Baltimore, appeared recently on Terry Gross' Fresh Air program on NPR; the interview recording and transcript can be read here.
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