Cruel Justice - Paperback

"Let me risk a prediction: history will remember the 'Three Strikes' panic as a discredited nightmare like McCarthyism, Japanese internment camps, and the Salem witch trials. Joe Domanick's book informs the court of public opinion about the scapegoats, the scoundrels, the cowards, and the few brave citizens who fought back against an era in which justice and cruelty were often indistinguishable."--Tom Hayden, former California state senator and author of "Rebel: A Personal History of the 1960s"A brave and utterly compelling response to the lynch mob mentality that has done so much damage to the moral fabric of California life. Domanick might be our Zola."--Mike Davis, author of "Dead Cities ""With his last book, "To Protect and to Serve, Joe Domanick produced a seminal work on big city policing and mispolicing. He's now zeroed in on the politics of crime and punishment in America with Cruel Justice--a brilliant analysis of the dirty little secrets that drive America's criminal justice system--secrets that nobody wants to look at."--Robert Scheer, writes a weekly column for the Los Angeles Times and is a Clinical Professor at the Annenberg School of Communications, University of Southern California