Diaz, Tom, <br/><br/>
Broken scales :  race and the crisis of justice in a divided America / 
Tom Diaz. 
 - vii, 217 pages ;  24 cm 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references (pages 207-212) and index. 
<br/><br/> The lens of racial perception --  Alabama : a notional fiction --  Midnight matters --  Victims --  Heritage --  The assembly line --  Through a lens darkly --  No n-words anywhere. 
<br/><br/> "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"-- 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9781538138502 1538138506 
<br/><br/><label>Standard No.: </label>40030755944 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2021011761 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Discrimination in criminal justice administration--United States.<br/>Polarization (Social sciences)--United States.<br/>Racism--History--United States--21st century.<br/>--<br/>Polarisation collective--<br/>Racisme--Histoire----<br/>Discrimination in criminal justice administration.<br/>Polarization (Social sciences)<br/>Race in the United States criminal justice system.
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Geographic Terms: </label><br/>United States--Race relations--History--21st century.<br/>--Relations raciales--Histoire--<br/>United States.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>HV9950  / .D53 2021 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>364.973089