Ogletree & Sarat, eds., When Law Fails: Making Sense of Miscarriages of Justice NYU Press, 2009
Fraad, Resnick & Wolff, Bringing It All Back Home Pluto, 1994
An innocent man is convicted. A guilty person isn't prosecuted. Are these miscarriages of justice? Markus Dubber argues that the US penal system, whose operation is driven by the state's police power, does not in fact seek to do justice. Also, Harriet Fraad and Rick Wolff suggest ways of addressing the current economic/psychological crises.