Resist Not Evil [Paperback]

Clarence Darrow (Author)

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Publication Date: December 1998

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Product Details

• Paperback: 185 pages
• Publisher: Loompanics Unlimited (December 1998)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0966693299
• ISBN-13: 978-0966693294
• Product Dimensions: 8.4 x 5.5 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 9.6 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,938,703 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars Well-considered criticism of "criminal justice", December 10, 2001

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"promiscuousreader" (Los Angeles, CA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Resist Not Evil (Paperback)

Now best known for his defense of a teacher's right to teach evolution in the "Scopes Monkey Trial," Clarence Darrow devoted much of his life in the courtroom to an expert public criticism of the notion of "criminal justice" and of the penal system in the U.S. Rather than focus his energy on "winning" the cases of his clients, he deconstructed conventional conceptions of "blame," "guilt," et al., arguing that punishment itself contributes to the oppressive conditions that produce "crime." Interestingly, he often "won" these cases on the merit of his theory, in spite of giving scant attention to the particulars of the individual cases.

This compendium of Darrow's work is an excellent (and extremely well-written) cross-section of his ideas -- a must-read for anyone interested in law, juridical theory, anarchism, etc.