Where American criminal justice went wrong - Boston.com: What drove Stuntz to finish the book -- even as he continued teaching classes and trying to spend as much time as he could with his wife and three children -- was a belief that something had gone fundamentally awry in America. Stuntz, an evangelical Christian and an avowed conservative, wanted people to grasp the profundity of the crisis he had observed -- how, over the past 50 years, our criminal justice system had been transformed into an unfair, amoral bureaucracy--one that had given up on the very idea of justice.
Stuntz submitted his completed manuscript to his editor at Harvard University Press in January 2011, about three months before he died at age 52.