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Rights at Risk de David K Shipler

Rights at Risk

Autor David K Shipler
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 3 feb 2015

Observăm o lacună persistentă în literatura academică dedicată dreptului constituțional: adesea, studiile se limitează la analize juridice seci, ignorând impactul uman direct al erodării libertăților civile. Rights at Risk vine să completeze acest gol, oferind o examinare documentată a modului în care compromisurile legale din ultimele decenii au transformat justiția americană. David K Shipler, laureat al premiului Pulitzer, documentează minuțios teritoriul unde Constituția întâlnește realitatea cotidiană, evidențiind riscurile la care este expusă democrația atunci când regulile de bază sunt ignorate.

Remarcăm structura narativă care împletește istoria juridică cu mărturii tulburătoare. Volumul extinde cadrul propus de The Rights of the People cu date noi din perioada post-9/11, arătând cum sistemul de justiție penală a ajuns să fie poreclit „McJustice” de către participanții deziluzionați. Shipler demonstrează că negarea drepturilor fundamentale nu sporește siguranța națională, ci dimpotrivă, creează noi pericole: confesiuni forțate care duc la condamnări eronate și resurse polițienești irosite pe arestări frivole.

Spre deosebire de Police, Prosecutors, Courts, and the Constitution, care se concentrează pe etica practicienilor, lucrarea lui Shipler pune sub lupă costul uman generalizat. De la imigranți deportați abuziv până la elevi sancționați pentru dezbateri politice, autorul analizează o gamă largă de încălcări care subminează încrederea în instituții. Tonul este precis, evitând senzaționalismul, dar păstrând o claritate morală necesară pentru a expune umbrele sistemului legal contemporan.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780307947000
ISBN-10: 0307947009
Pagini: 400
Dimensiuni: 129 x 201 x 20 mm
Greutate: 0.31 kg
Editura: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group

De ce să citești această carte

Recomandăm această carte cercetătorilor în științe politice și studenților la drept care doresc să înțeleagă discrepanța dintre teoria constituțională și practica judiciară. Cititorul câștigă o perspectivă critică asupra conceptului de libertate civilă în contextul securității naționale. Este o lectură esențială pentru a înțelege mecanismele prin care drepturile individuale sunt sacrificate și argumentele factuale necesare pentru a solicita reformarea sistemului.

Despre autor

David K Shipler este un distins jurnalist și scriitor american, cunoscut pentru rigoarea documentării și profunzimea analizelor sale sociale. A lucrat timp de peste două decenii pentru The New York Times, fiind corespondent în Moscova, Ierusalim și Washington. În 1987, a primit Premiul Pulitzer pentru non-ficțiune pentru lucrarea sa despre relațiile dintre arabi și evrei în Israel. Expertiza sa în domeniul drepturilor omului și al sistemelor de guvernare este reflectată în întreaga sa operă, Shipler fiind recunoscut pentru capacitatea de a traduce concepte juridice complexe în narațiuni umane relevante.

Notă biografică

David K. Shipler reported for The New York Times from 1966 to 1988 in New York, Saigon, Moscow, Jerusalem, and Washington, D.C. He is the author of five other books, including the best sellers Russia and The Working Poor, as well as Arab and Jew, which won the Pulitzer Prize. Shipler, who has been a guest scholar at the Brookings Institution and a senior associate at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, has taught at Princeton University; at American University in Washington, D.C.; and at Dartmouth College. He writes online at The Shipler Report.
 
www.shiplerreport.blogspot.com

Descriere scurtă

An enlightening, intensely researched examination of violations of the constitutional principles that preserve individual rights and civil liberties from courtrooms to classrooms.
 
With telling anecdote and detail, Pulitzer Prizeߝwinner David K. Shipler explores the territory where the Constitution meets everyday America, where legal compromises—before and since 9/11—have undermined the criminal justice system’s fairness, enhanced the executive branch’s power over citizens and immigrants, and impaired some of the freewheeling debate and protest essential in a constitutional democracy.
 
Shipler demonstrates how the violations tamper with America’s safety in unexpected ways. While a free society takes risks to observe rights, denying rights creates other risks. A suspect’s right to silence may deprive police of a confession, but a forced confession is often false. Honoring the right to a jury trial may be cumbersome, but empowering prosecutors to coerce a guilty plea means evidence goes untested, the charge unproved. An investigation undisciplined by the Bill of Rights may jail the innocent and leave the guilty at large and dangerous. Weakened constitutional rules allow the police to waste precious resources on useless intelligence gathering and frivolous arrests. The criminal courts act less as impartial adjudicators than as conveyor belts from street to prison in a system that some disillusioned participants have nicknamed “McJustice.”
 
There is, always, a human cost. Shipler shows us victims of torture and abuse—not only suspected terrorists at the hands of the CIA but also murder suspects interrogated by the Chicago police. We see a poverty-stricken woman forced to share an attorney with her drug dealer boyfriend and sentenced to six years in prison when the conflict of interest turns her lawyer against her. We meet high school students suspended for expressing unwelcome political opinions. And we see a pregnant immigrant deported, after years of living legally in the country, for allegedly stealing a lottery ticket.
 
Often shocking, yet ultimately idealistic, Rights at Risk shows us the shadows of America where the civil liberties we rightly take for granted have been eroded—and summons us to reclaim them.

Recenzii

“Fascinating . . . Monumental . . . Shipler is particularly good at weaving together legal history and personal storytelling.”
            -Richard McGill Murphy, Fortune
 
“Shipler doesn’t mince words or shy away from the hard issues . . . The writing is precise, interesting, and frequently moving . . . His coverage, concreteness, and willingness to candidly take on the range of issues make this a terrific book for anyone interested in our rights and liberties.”
            -David Kairys, Philadelphia Inquirer
 
“There are many books about the stories behind Supreme Court cases. Shipler’s distinctive contribution is the thoroughness and originality of his reporting.”
            -Jeffrey Rosen, The Washington Post
 
“Fascinating and provocative . . . This book is a must for readers who want to stay informed of their rights in the shadowy territory where the government’s need for order and security overstep constitutional protections.”
            -Starred review, Publishers Weekly
 
“Well-reported . . . No matter the issue, Shipler humanizes the discussion throughout, linking each topic to stories of real people silenced, marginalized, neglected, bullied, even brutalized by a government that should know better.”
            -Kirkus
 
“An eye-opening and troubling look at failures in the criminal justice system that put at risk the rights of all citizens.”
            -Booklist
 
“David Shipler's important new book powerfully reminds us that our constitutional rights are little more than words on paper if we fail to take them seriously when it's inconvenient or even painful to do so.”
            -Linda Greenhouse, author of Becoming Justice Blackmun
 
“David Shipler’s Rights at Risk is simply a wonderful book. It lays out, more powerfully than anything else I have read, how our constitutional rights have been whittled away in recent years—by presidents and judges and police chiefs. All in the name of national security or safe streets. More than a cry in the night, it is a careful, intensely researched account of a dangerous trend that not enough of us have noticed. Not just law, it is human drama.”
            -Anthony Lewis, author of Gideon’s Trumpet
 
“In Rights at Risk, Shipler continues his project of showing us how the constitutional rights we exalt in theory are being undermined in practice. This masterful and illuminating book reports how our criminal justice system frequently omits the justice, and how we are not as free to speak out to and against the government as we might like to think. The Constitution needs our help to survive, and reading this book is a valuable first step to reclaiming our fundamental values of fairness and equality for ourselves and for future generations.”
            -Susan Herman, President of American Civil Liberties Union and author of Taking Liberties

“Shipler argues that although a basic knowledge of the Bill of Rights by all citizens is not possible to achieve, we need to maintain a robust ‘Constitutional culture.’ By reading this book and discussing it with others, you will be doing your part.”
            -Portland Book Review

 



From the Hardcover edition.