Amos N. Guiora
Autore di Constitutional Limits on Coercive Interrogation (Terrorism Second Series)
Sull'Autore
Amos N. Guiora is Professor of Law at the S.J. Quinney College of Law, University of Utah, USA.
Opere di Amos N. Guiora
Etichette
Informazioni generali
- Sesso
- male
- Luogo di nascita
- Israel
- Istruzione
- Kenyon College (BA, 1979)
Utenti
Recensioni
Statistiche
- Opere
- 12
- Utenti
- 56
- Popolarità
- #291,557
- Voto
- 2.5
- Recensioni
- 2
- ISBN
- 43
However, that question is not addressed in this book. Somehow, this author reflects on the Holocaust and concludes that there is a legal solution to the bystander problem: the bystander must call the police! (This thesis makes his extremely justified criticism of the Holocaust bystanders sound more and more ridiculous. Don't be a bystander! Call the...SS? I'm mad at this book for making a criticism of bystanders in the Holocaust sound ridiculous.) There is no reflection on the limitations of the criminal justice system, on the findings of books like "The New Jim Crow" and the effects of increased criminalization, like the War on Drugs, on marginalized communities. There is no evidence presented that imposing criminal liability for bystanders who fail to contact the police will prevent violent crimes or necessarily help the victims.
The only effects of the proposed legislation that seem certain to me are (1) that our high incarceration rate would increase and (2) that ordinary citizens and residents would feel pressure to err on the side of initiating police involvement. Which sounds more like the next generation of German history.… (altro)