Race and Drug Trials: The Social Construction of Guilt and Innocence

ISBN-13: 9781138331327 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 227 str.

Anita Kalunta-Crumpton

Opis

First published in 1999, this book offers an innovative study of the impact that courts have upon the representation of black people in criminal statistics in the UK.

Recenzje

’...a clear and stimulating read...this book provides a wholly new insight into how black people are discriminated against within the criminal justice system...innovative and important study.’ Howard Journal of Criminal Justice ’...the focus of and findings presented in the book should be extremely useful to scholarly work in the area of criminal justice decision making.’ British Journal of Criminology

Spis treści

Part 1. The Background. 1. The Problem of Disproportion: the Debate. 2. Drugs, Response and Race. 3. Social Construction and Claims-Making: Theory and Methods. Part 2. The Substance. 4. Establishing Guilt. 5. Defending the Defendant. 6. In Response: the Judge. 7. The Verdict.

O autorze

Anita Kalunta-Crumpton is Professor of Administration of Justice at Texas Southern University, USA. She is the author of Race and Drug Trials: The Social Construction of Guilt and Innocence (Ashgate, 1999), Drugs, Victims and Race: The Politics of Drug Control (Waterside Press, 2006), and editor (with Biko Agozino) of Pan-African Issues in Crime and Justice (Ashgate, 2004); Race, Crime and Criminal Justice: International Perspectives (Palgrave, 2010), and Race, Ethnicity, Crime and Criminal Justice in the Americas (Palgrave, 2012).