Blind goddess
Subtitle: a reader on race and justice
By: edited by Alexander Papachristou
Publisher: New Press; Distributed by Perseus Distribution
Published: 2011
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 350
ISBN-13: 9781595586995
Subjects: Administration of Criminal justice; Race relations; Law and legislation; Race discrimination
Notes: Includes bibliographical references(p. 343-348).
Table of contents: title: The New Jim Crow / Michelle Alexander; title: Race, incarceration, and American values / Glenn C. Loury; title: Class, race & hyperincarceration in revanchist America / Loic Wacquant; title: Profiling unmasked : from criminal profiling to racial profiling / David A. Harris; title: Stop-question-frisk analyses / Center for Constitutional Rights; title: The shame of New York City / Bob Herbert; title: The war on drugs and the African American community / Marc Mauer; title: Decades of disparity : drug arrests and race in the United States / Human Rights Watch; title: Should good people be prosecutors? / Paul Butler; title: "What's a defense?" / Amy Bach; title: Judgment and discrimination / David Cole; title: Illegal racial discrimination in jury selection : a continuing legacy / Equal Justice Initiative; title: No exit : the expanding use of life sentences in America / Ashley Nellis and Ryan S. King; title: New political and cultural meanings / David Garland; title: Texas tough /  Robert Perkinson; title: Prisoners of the census in New York : democracy on the March! / Eric Lotke; title: Incarceration and social inequality / Bruce Western and Becky Pettit; title: Death by a thousand little cuts : studies of the impact of incarceration Todd R. Clear; title: Doing less harm / Michael Tonry; title: The fire this time / Michelle Alexander; title: From racial profiling to racial literacy / Lani Guinier.