{"id":19335,"date":"2013-01-11T17:21:47","date_gmt":"2013-01-11T22:21:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/law.marquette.edu\/facultyblog\/?p=19335"},"modified":"2013-01-11T17:21:47","modified_gmt":"2013-01-11T22:21:47","slug":"criminal-process-as-morality-play","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/law.marquette.edu\/facultyblog\/2013\/01\/criminal-process-as-morality-play\/","title":{"rendered":"Criminal Process as Morality Play"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My review of Stephanos Bibas\u2019s book\u00a0<em>The Machinery of Criminal Justice\u00a0<\/em>is\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/papers.ssrn.com\/sol3\/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2197348\">now available on SSRN<\/a>. \u00a0Here is the abstract:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Stephanos Bibas\u2019s new book,\u00a0<em>The Machinery of Criminal Justice<\/em>, looks back to colonial-era criminal justice as an ideal of sorts. Criminal trials in that time were a \u201cparticipatory morality play,\u201d in which ordinary members of the community played a crucial role. In Bibas\u2019s view, the subsequent professionalization of the criminal-justice system, as well as related developments like the introduction of plea bargaining, have led to widespread contemporary distrust of the system. The present essay reviews Bibas\u2019s book and suggests additional reasons besides professionalization why the morality-play model broke down in the nineteenth century. Taking these additional considerations into account, the prospects for reviving the morality-play model may be even dimmer than Bibas recognizes, although a number of his proposed reforms nonetheless appear attractive.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Entitled \u201c(The History of) Criminal Justice as a Morality Play,\u201d my essay will appear in the\u00a0<em>Penn Law Review\u2019s\u00a0<\/em>on-line journal,\u00a0<em>PENNumbra.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My review of Stephanos Bibas\u2019s book\u00a0The Machinery of Criminal Justice\u00a0is\u00a0now available on SSRN. \u00a0Here is the abstract: Stephanos Bibas\u2019s new book,\u00a0The Machinery of Criminal Justice, looks back to colonial-era criminal justice as an ideal of sorts. 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