Race, ethnicity and law / edited by Mathieu Deflem.
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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| Online Access: | Electronic book from EBSCO |
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
| Published: | Bingley, UK : Emerald Publishing Limited, 2017. Ã2017 |
| Edition: | First edition. |
| Series: | Sociology of crime, law, and deviance ;
v. 22. |
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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.