Title: Contempt of court : a scholar's battle for free speech from behind bars /
Authors: Scarce, Rik, 1958-
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield,
Year: 2005
Subjects: Scarce, Rik, Trials, litigation, etc.; Scarce, Rik, Imprisonment.; Sociologists Washington (State) Diaries.; Prisoners Washington (State) Diaries.; Contempt of court United States.; Confidential communications United States.; Sociology Research Moral and ethical aspects.; Sociologists Professional ethics.
Abstract: "In 1993 Rik Scarce was imprisoned for contempt of court in Spokane, Washington. For five months he refused to testify to a federal grand jury about his interviews with animal rights activists after they had broken into a research laboratory, and his story made headlines in numerous newspapers. Now Scarce tells of his jailing and the rationale behind his ethical stance, bringing an ethnographer's trained sensibility and a journalist's storytelling skill to his tale. Viewed as an outsider even by his fellow inmates, Scarce gained from his imprisonment a painful, rare glimpse of the jail world.
Contents: A sense of justice -- Kicking Uncle Sam's ass -- Find me some amendments -- The meaning of devotion -- I'd gladly die right now -- Joint joints -- A final rollup -- Some things do not come to pass.