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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Frankie Y. Bailey, Ph.D. , Alice P. GreenPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc Imprint: Praeger Publishers Inc Dimensions: Width: 15.50cm , Height: 2.40cm , Length: 23.50cm Weight: 0.562kg ISBN: 9780275953034ISBN 10: 0275953033 Pages: 264 Publication Date: 30 April 1999 Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate , Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Out of Print Availability: Out of stock Table of ContentsReviewsBailey and Green have produced a book that fills a gap in the continuing and often painful debate over race, crime, and justice in the US. In 14 chapters, supplemented with a unique and valuable bibliographical essay and a general bibliography, the authors take the reader through a historical, social, and legal landscape enmeshed in a race-crime-justice subtext.... [This is] all told with readable prose and scholarly precision. A valuable piece of work that is long overdue. All levels. -Choice Bailey and Green have produced a book that fills a gap in the continuing and often painful debate over race, crime, and justice in the US. In 14 chapters, supplemented with a unique and valuable bibliographical essay and a general bibliography, the authors take the reader through a historical, social, and legal landscape enmeshed in a race-crime-justice subtext.... [This is] all told with readable prose and scholarly precision. A valuable piece of work that is long overdue. All levels. -Choice ? The book presents itself as academic, but I became completely immersed in its stories. The authors additionally provide the reader with a handy bibliographical essay detailing resources on African-American issues in books and on film. Law Never Here is the best book I've read this year. Law Never Here is primarily a record, a text most useful as an exhaustive compendium of both the legal and social struggles of black Americans over three centuries. It is well footnoted, with a lengthy bibliography, as well as an extensive bibliographical essay at the conclusion citing further books, articles, documentaries, and popular films to extend the subject....Law Never Here is an unblinking record, a persistent catalogue of white power over black, used sometimesto help, most often to ignore, too often to grind down. ?-Fellowship ?Bailey and Green have produced a book that fills a gap in the continuing and often painful debate over race, crime, and justice in the US. In 14 chapters, supplemented with a unique and valuable bibliographical essay and a general bibliography, the authors take the reader through a historical, social, and legal landscape enmeshed in a race-crime-justice subtext.... [This is] all told with readable prose and scholarly precision. A valuable piece of work that is long overdue. All levels.?-Choice The book presents itself as academic, but I became completely immersed in its stories. The authors additionally provide the reader with a handy bibliographical essay detailing resources on African-American issues in books and on film. Law Never Here is the best book I've read this year. Law Never Here is primarily a record, a text most useful as an exhaustive compendium of both the legal and social struggles of black Americans over three centuries. It is well footnoted, with a lengthy bibliography, as well as an extensive bibliographical essay at the conclusion citing further books, articles, documentaries, and popular films to extend the subject....Law Never Here is an unblinking record, a persistent catalogue of white power over black, used sometimesto help, most often to ignore, too often to grind down. -Fellowship Author InformationFRANKIE Y. BAILEY is Associate Professor in the School of Criminal Justice, State University of New York at Albany./e Her research and teaching focus on issues of race, class, gender, and social conflict in the fields of crime and American culture and crime history. She is the author of Out of the Woodpile: Black Characters in Crime and Detective Fiction (Greenwood, 1991) and the coeditor of Popular Culture, Crime, and Justice (with Donna C. Hale, 1998). ALICE P. GREEN is the founder and Executive Director of the Center for Law and Justice, a community-based organization that serves as a clearinghouse for information on legal and criminal justice systems for members of low-income communities and those of color./e An activist/criminologist, she monitors criminal justice programs and lectures extensively on social policy, race, crime, and the impact of incarceration on African Americans and their communities. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |