Introduction: the rule of too much law

Crime and punishment

Two migrations

"The wolf by the ear"

The past

Ideals and institutions

The Fourteenth Amendment's failed promise

Criminal justice in the gilded age

A culture war and its aftermath

Constitutional law's rise, three roads not taken

Earl Warren's errors

The rise and fall of crime, the fall and rise of criminal punishment

The future

Fixing a broken system

Epilogue: taming the wolf

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