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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Mathieu Deflem (University of South Carolina, USA)Publisher: Emerald Publishing Limited Imprint: Emerald Publishing Limited Volume: 22 ISBN: 9781787146044ISBN 10: 1787146049 Pages: 304 Publication Date: 01 June 2017 Audience: Professional and scholarly , College/higher education , Professional & Vocational , Undergraduate Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsIntroduction: The Laws Of Race, Ethnicity And Law; Mathieu DeflemPART I: LAW AND BLACK LIVES: 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 PART II: DISPARITIES IN SENTENCING AND PUNISHMENT: 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 maternity of black women; Chenelle A. Jones and Renita L. Seabrook Hooked on punishment: symbolic violence and the drug war inside us prisons; Meggan J. Lee and Nick Rochin Prisons, race making, and the changing American racial milieu; Gennifer Furst PART III: SYSTEMS AND MECHANISMS OF INEQUALITY: Racialized culpability: victim blaming and state violence; Nicholas J. Chagnon Latinos and the crimmigration system; Amada Armenta and Irene I. Vega Justice, social control, and social inequality: framing the U.S. juvenile justice system's racial & ethnic disparities; Brian J. Smith Drugs and racial constructions; Jeanette Covington The intersection of race/ethnicity and gender and the treatment of probation violators in juvenile justice proceedings; Michael J. Leiber and Maude Beaudry-CyrReviewsOffering a broad and diverse overview and discussion of a variety of issues of race and ethnicity in multiple areas of law, sociologists cover law and black lives, disparities in sentencing and punishment, and systems and mechanisms of inequality. Among their topics are apartheid justice: gang injunctions and the new black codes, 40 acres and a lawsuit: legal claims for reparations, hooked on punishment: symbolic violence and the drug war inside US prisons, Latinos and the crimmigration system, and drugs and racial constructions. -- Annotation (c)2017 * (protoview.com) * Offering a broad and diverse overview and discussion of a variety of issues of race and ethnicity in multiple areas of law, sociologists cover law and black lives, disparities in sentencing and punishment, and systems and mechanisms of inequality. Among their topics are apartheid justice: gang injunctions and the new black codes, 40 acres and a lawsuit: legal claims for reparations, hooked on punishment: symbolic violence and the drug war inside US prisons, Latinos and the crimmigration system, and drugs and racial constructions.--Annotation (c)2017 (protoview.com) Author InformationMathieu Deflem is Professor of Sociology at University of South Carolina, USA. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |