At the cross : race, religion, and citizenship in the politics of the death penalty
Price, Melynda JAuthor
Curing systemic inequalities in the criminal justice system is the unfinished business of the Civil Rights movement. No part of that system highlights this truth more than the current implementation of the death penalty. The findings of this research demonstrate that the racial inequity in the meting out of death sentences has legal and political externalities that move beyond individual defendants to larger numbers of African Americans. This book looks at the meaning of the death penalty to and for African Americans.
Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Curing systemic inequalities in the criminal justice system is the unfinished business of the Civil Rights movement. No part of that system highlights this truth more than the current implementation of the death penalty. The findings of this research demonstrate that the racial inequity in the meting out of death sentences has legal and political externalities that move beyond individual defendants to larger numbers of African Americans. This book looks at the meaning of the death penalty to and for African Americans.
Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on May 26, 2015).
Capital punishment
Discrimination in criminal justice administration
Racism
Religion and justice
African Americans
Social Welfare & Social Work
Social Sciences
Criminology, Penology & Juvenile Delinquency