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Muller examines the prosecution and sentencing of Japanese Americans who resisted the draft of WWII from their internment camps. Although the hundreds of cases were almost identical, approaches to justice and sentencing of offenders varied widely.

Harcourt discusses three developments in 20th century criminal law: the evolution of parole board decision-making in the early 20th century, the development of fixed sentencing guidelines in the late 20th century, and the growth of criminal profiling as a formal law enforcement tool since the 1960s. In each of these case studies, he focuses on the criminal law decision-making.