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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.
Price: $165.99
Pages: 304
Publisher: Emerald Publishing Limited
Imprint: Emerald Publishing Limited
Series: Sociology of Crime, Law and Deviance
Publication Date:
01 June 2017
ISBN: 9781787146044
Format: Hardcover
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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.
Mathieu Deflem is Professor of Sociology at University of South Carolina, USA.
Introduction: The Laws Of Race, Ethnicity And Law; Mathieu Deflem
PART 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