Race, ethnicity and law

This new volume of Sociology of Crime, Law and Deviance addresses issues of race and ethnicity within the law and law-related phenomena. Even in today's so-called multicultural, post-racial world racial and ethnic concerns prevail in many aspects of modern law. Contributors to this volume exami...

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Other Authors Deflem, Mathieu (Editor)
Format Electronic eBook
LanguageEnglish
Published Bingley, UK : Emerald Publishing Limited, 2017.
EditionFirst edition.
SeriesSociology of crime, law, and deviance ; v. 22.
Subjects
Discrimination in criminal justice administration > United States.
Crime and race > United States.
Racism in criminology > United States.
Criminal justice, Administration of > United States.
Race discrimination > United States.
United States.
elektronické knihy
electronic books
Online AccessFull text
ISBN9781787146037
9781787146044
ISSN1521-6136 ;
Physical Description1 online zdroj (x, 294 stran)

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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: The laws of race, ethnicity and law / Mathieu Deflem
  • Wrongful convictions : the African American experience / Marvin D. Free Jr.
  • Apartheid justice : gang injunctions and the new black codes / Xuan Santos and Christopher Bickel
  • Understanding the historical influences on contemporary assessment and counseling issues of African American offenders / Sherrise Truesdale-Moore
  • When did crime pay, and for whom? : The metamorphosis of an academic's odyssey / James Burnett, Alvin Killough and Eryn Killough
  • Forty acres and a lawsuit : legal claims for reparations / Kaimipono David Wenger
  • Theoretical perspectives and empirical assessments of race/ethnicity disparities in federal sentencing / Celesta A. Albonetti
  • Examining sentencing disparity in Virginia : the impact of race and sex on mitigating departures for drug offenders / Lori Elis
  • The new Jane Crow : mass incarceration and the denied materinity of Black women / Chenelle A. Jones and Renita L. Seabrook
  • Hooked on punishment : symbolic violence and the drug war inside U.S. prisons / Meggan J. Lee and Nick Rochin
  • Prisons, race making, and the changing American racial milieu / Gennifer Furst
  • Racialized culpability : victim blaming and state violence / Nicholas J. Chagnon
  • Latinos and the crimmigration system / Amanda Armenta and Irene I. Vega
  • Justice, social control, and social inequality : framing the U.S. juvenile justice system's racial and ethnic disparities / Brian J. Smith
  • Drugs and racial constructions / Jeanette Covington
  • The intersection of race/ethnicity, gender and the treatment of probation violators in juvenile justice proceedings / Michael J. Leiber and Maude Beaudry-Cyr.

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