Confronting Racism: Integrating Mental Health Research into Legal Strategies and Reforms

ISBN-13: 9781138553439 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 280 str.

Robert T. Carter; Thomas Scheuermann

Opis

This book proposes a comprehensive approach to confronting racism through a foundational framework as well as practical strategies to correct and reverse the course of the past and catalyze the stalled efforts of the present.

Spis treści

1 An Introduction to Racism and What It Means to Confront It; Part 1 What Do We Know About the History of Racial Injustice? Historical and Current Underpinnings; 2 Historical and Contemporary Obstacles to Combating Racism; 3 Why Legal Redress Has Been So Difficult; 4 Undoing Civil Rights: Two Steps Forward, One and a Half Steps Back; Part 2 Racism Hurts: Psychological and Emotional Costs; 5 The Harm of Encounters with Racial Discrimination; 6 Reconceptualizing Racism and Presenting a Theory of Race-Based Traumatic Stress; 7 Measuring Race-Based Traumatic Stress Injury as Legally Actionable Emotional Distress; Part 3 Where Do We Go from Here? A Model for Legal Redress; 8 Forensic Assessment of Race-Based Traumatic Stress; 9 A Legal Framework for Confronting Racism: Framework and Reforms for Law, Policy, Practice; 10 Applying the Framework: Confronting Racism and Advocating for Legal Reform; Part 4 Integrating Mental Health and the Law; 11 Mental Health Evaluations: Race-Related Mental Health Standards and Practices; 12 Integrating the Law and Mental Health: Collaborating to Confront Racism