Crimes That Changed Our World, Paul H. Robinson
Crimes That Changed Our World, Paul H. Robinson
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Crimes That Changed Our World
Tragedy, Outrage, and Reform

Author: Paul H. Robinson, Sarah M. Robinson

Narrator: Paul Heitsch

Unabridged: 15 hr 59 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 06/08/2018

Categories: Nonfiction, Law


Synopsis

Crimes That Changed Our World explores some of the most important trigger cases of the past century, revealing much about how change comes to our modern world.

The exact nature of the crime-outrage-reform dynamic can take many forms, and Paul and Sarah Robinson explore those differences in the cases they present. Each case is in some ways unique but there are repeating patterns that can offer important insights about what produces change and how in the future we might best manage it.

Sometimes reform comes as a society wrestles with a new and intolerable problem. Sometimes it comes because an old problem from which we have long suffered suddenly has an apparent solution provided by technology or some other social or economic advance. Or, sometimes the engine of reform kicks into gear simply because we decide as a society that we are no longer willing to tolerate a long-standing problem and are now willing to do something about it.

As the amazing and often touching stories that the Robinsons present make clear, the path of progress is not just a long series of course corrections; sometimes it is a quick turn or an unexpected lurch. In a flash we can suddenly feel different about present circumstances, seeing a need for change and can often, just as suddenly, do something about it.

About Paul H. Robinson

Paul H. Robinson is a Colin S. Diver Professor of Law at the University of Pennsylvania Law School. Robinson is one of the world's leading criminal law scholars, a prolific writer and lecturer, and has published articles in virtually all of the top law reviews. A former federal prosecutor and counsel for the U.S. Senate Subcommittee on Criminal Laws and Procedures, he was the lone dissenter when the U.S. Sentencing Commission promulgated the current federal sentencing guidelines. He is the author or editor of fourteen books, including Intuitions of Justice and the Utility of Desert, Distributive Principles of Criminal Law, and Law Without Justice: Why Criminal Law Doesn't Give People What They Deserve.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Pam on September 16, 2020

This books shows how crimes have resulted in laws that in some cases were put in place to prevent or improve them never happening again. Triangle Shirtwaist Factory to Enron, rivers catching fire, kidnappings, domestic abuse, drunk drivers, corruption, 911, all were catalysts to the creation of laws......more

Goodreads review by Grace on November 25, 2024

*read for school* As someone who loves law and history, this was a perfect combination of both. I totally would have read this without it being required for school......more