Broken scales : race and the crisis of justice in a divided America / Tom Diaz.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Lanham, Maryland : Rowman & Littlefield, [2021]Copyright date: Description: vii, 217 pages ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781538138502
  • 1538138506
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: Online version:: Broken scales.DDC classification:
  • 364.973089 23
LOC classification:
  • HV9950 .D53 2021
Contents:
The lens of racial perception -- Alabama : a notional fiction -- Midnight matters -- Victims -- Heritage -- The assembly line -- Through a lens darkly -- No n-words anywhere.
Summary: "Tom Diaz proposes that the everyday actions of ordinary people, in the context of extreme political and cultural polarization, distort the criminal justice system and betray the ideals expressed in American founding documents and centuries of Anglo-American articulations of basic human rights. These everyday actions range across a spectrum from the armed intervention of private citizens in the forms of individual action, neighborhood watches, and citizen's arrests, to the expectations imposed on law enforcement, in particular, and the criminal justice system in general"-- Provided by the publisher.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 207-212) and index.

The lens of racial perception -- Alabama : a notional fiction -- Midnight matters -- Victims -- Heritage -- The assembly line -- Through a lens darkly -- No n-words anywhere.

"Tom Diaz proposes that the everyday actions of ordinary people, in the context of extreme political and cultural polarization, distort the criminal justice system and betray the ideals expressed in American founding documents and centuries of Anglo-American articulations of basic human rights. These everyday actions range across a spectrum from the armed intervention of private citizens in the forms of individual action, neighborhood watches, and citizen's arrests, to the expectations imposed on law enforcement, in particular, and the criminal justice system in general"-- Provided by the publisher.

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