Race, Ethnicity and Law

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