Race, ethnicity and law

Summary: "Addresses issues of race and ethnicity within the law and law-related phenomena. In today's so-called multicultural, post-racial world racial and ethnic concerns prevail in many aspects of modern law. Contributors to this volume examine racial and ethnic disparities in sentencing and punishment; the continued problematic nature of the African American experience within the US system; the criminalization of immigrants; racial inequities in the administration of drug laws; and the racial disparities that affect juvenile justice"--

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ISBN: 9781787146044
ISBN: 1787146049
ISBN: 9781787146037
ISBN: 9781787149915
Physical Description: print
x, 294 pages : illustration ; 23 cm.
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: United Kingdom ; Emerald Publishing, 2017.
Copyright: ©2017

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

List of Contributors p. ix/ Introduction: The Laws of Race, Ethnicity and Law Mathieu Deflem p. 1/ Part I Law and Black Lives/ Wrongful Convictions: The African American Experience Marvin D. Free Jr. p. 7/ Apartheid Justice: Gang Injunctions and the New Black Codes Xuan Santos and Christopher Bickel p. 27/ Understanding the Historical Influences on Contemporary Assessment and Counseling Issues of African American Offenders Sherrise Truesdale-Moore p. 39/ When Did Crime Pay, and for Whom? The Metamorphosis of an Academics Odyssey James Burnett and Alvin Killough and Eryn Killough p. 63/ Forty Acres and a Lawsuit: Legal Claims for Reparations Kaimipono David Wenger p. 79/ Part II Disparities in Sentencing and Punishment/ Theoretical Perspectives and Empirical Assessments of Race/Ethnicity Disparities in Federal Sentencing Celesta A. Albonetti p. 95/ Examining Sentencing Disparity in Virginia: The Impact of Race and Sex on Mitigating Departures for Drug Offenders Lori Elis p. 115/ The New Jane Crow: Mass Incarceration and the Denied Maternity of Black Women Chenelle A. Jones and Renita L. Seabrook p. 135/ Hooked on Punishment: Symbolic Violence and the Drug War Inside U.S. Prisons Meggan J. Lee and Nick Rochin p. 155/ Prisons, Race Making, and the Changing American Racial Milieu Gennifer Furst p. 175/ Part III Systems and Mechanisms of Inequality/ Racialized Culpability, Victim Blaming and State Violence Nicholas J. Chagnon p. 199/ Latinos and the Crimmigration System Amada Armenia and Irene I. Vega p. 221/ Justice, Social Control, and Social Inequality: Framing the U.S. Juvenile Justice System's Racial and Ethnic Disparities Brian J. Smith p. 237/ Drugs and Racial Constructions Jeanette Covington p. 251/ The Intersection of Race/Ethnicity, Gender and the Treatment of Probation Violators in Juvenile Justice Proceedings Michael J. Leiber and Maude Beaudry-Cyr p. 269/ Index p. 291