# Usual Cruelty

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- Book: [Usual Cruelty](https://www.bookquiver.com/alec-karakatsanis/usual-cruelty) ([Usual Cruelty.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/alec-karakatsanis/usual-cruelty.md))
- Authors: [Alec Karakatsanis](https://www.bookquiver.com/alec-karakatsanis)
- Publisher: The New Press
- ISBN: 978-16-2097-914-3
- Pages: 240
- Published: 2025-02-27
- Language: en_US
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

A “searing, searching, and eloquent” (Martha Minow, Harvard Law School) investigation into the role of the legal profession in perpetuating mass incarceration—now in an accessible paperback