Overview

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 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. This volume will be of interest to students and researchers in law, socio-legal studies, criminology, criminal justice, sociology and public policy.

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Author:   Mathieu Deflem (University of South Carolina, USA)
Publisher:   Emerald Publishing Limited
Imprint:   Emerald Publishing Limited
Volume:   22
Weight:   0.564kg
ISBN:  

9781787146044

ISBN 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  
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Table of Contents

Introduction: 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-Cyr

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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)

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) *

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Mathieu Deflem is Professor of Sociology at University of South Carolina, USA.

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