professor bibas, do we have an efficient criminal justice system? >> guest: we've got a system tahas moved from what people expect it to be, a public morality play where we blame and punish and then reintegrate people who do wrong and heal victims to one that's been taken over by the lawyers. we have professionals who have maximized the speed of the system. it's hurried plea bar gaining that disposes 19 out of 20 cases. it's cheap, but it's bargained-for justice, and so the victims have no say, defendants feel like they've copped a plea or gotten away with something, and the public wonders why is this about a deal rather than a ringing jury trial and a verdict? we've become very busy in the last two centuries from before this nation was founded criminal justice was about right and wrong, pain and blame and apologies and healing. and we have too many criminal cases, and so the lawyers have just sped things up by pleading cases out one after another after another as a cookie cutter or you might say an assembly line system. and so lawyers, the insiders

we sat down with stephanos bibas at the an anyone burg school of -- mr. bibas argues our criminal justice system has become a process that -- over reforming criminals and healing victims and their families. it's ten minutes. >> host: now joining us on book tv is author and professor, stephanos bibas, whose new book, the machinery of criminal justice, is published by oxford university press. professor, do we have an efficient criminal justice system? >> guest: we have a system that has moved from what people expect it to be, a public morality play where we blame and punish and then reintegrate people who do wrong to one that's been taken over by the lawyers. we have professionals who have maximized the speed of the system. it's hurried, plea bargaining disposing with 190 out of 20 cases. but it's bargaining for justice so the victims have no say, often don't know what happens in their cases. defendants feel lime they have copped a plea or gotten away with something, and the public wonders, why is this about a deal rather than a jury trial and a verdict? we

this is biba at its best. this is a biba jacket. but it's not just any biba jacket., presumably that you must've worn endlessly. oh, i had so many good times in that jacket. it's had more social life than i had. ha! no, but it was the thing to wear. we didn't know it was the thing to wear. my sister and i were born in the time when mary quant came out, and then biba, who was more affordable. and the shop-- we didn't know what we'd got at the time as you never do. and, so, it was part of my very happy years. this dates from the early 1970s. and you can be quite precise with the dating, because it's before she opens the very big department store. so, you must've bought it in kensington church street. i did. and i think that was her first shop. um, in fact, i'm sure it was. i'm so delighted to wear it because i think when you actually put it on you realize what biba was all about. you can see-- and i can feel just wearing it-- this amazing silhouette that it creates. you know, the tailoring is superb, isn't it? but it wasn't expensive. no. it was something that you as a

. >> nunca no existe cuando se habla del futuro, yo sigo biba, por lo tanto mi posibilidad de llegar contra de leyes mas estrictas para el control de armas. el vicepresidente joe biden encabeza las reuniones con grupos que defienden cada postura. ===encuentran otro cadaver con mordeduras de perro en la ciudad de mexico. el cuerpo de una joven fue hallado en el mismo sitio donde cuatro personas murieron atacadas por una jauria de perros.=== ♪ señores, no sé ustedes, pero estoy más que lista para recibir a mi sammy con mis queridas que vinieron por su cambio de look, mira, ahí están, ¡guau! que emoción, que guapas. >> mira nada más, que cambio tuvieron. >> me siento rara sin mi cabella, me siento feliz por hacer algo por alguen. >> vamos a recordar un poco, olga le hizo una promesa a su madre de donar cabello. >> ¿cómo te sientes?. >> súper emocionada y muy hermosa. >> mira nada más, ¿qué les hiciste? las megatranformaste. >> sí, acá no se le hizo color, solo corte, vamos a ver como ellas llegaron, estaban muy nerviosas y luego todo cambio. >ó> ahí estamos viendo a camila y muchas vece