Contempt of court
Subtitle: a scholar's battle for free speech from behind bars
By: Rik Scarce.
Series: Crossroads in qualitative inquiry ;; v. 6
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield; AltaMira Press
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Lanham, MD
Language: eng
Number of pages: 223
Subjects: Scarce, Rik, 1958- -- Imprisonment.; Scarce, Rik, 1958- -- Trials, litigation, etc.; 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.
Genres: Diaries.
Description: "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.

This text raises serious questions about the failures of the American justice system and protection of civil liberties, and is a valuable resource for criminologists, sociologists, and corrections professionals."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references p. (217-220) and index.
Table of contents: title: A sense of justice; title: Kicking Uncle Sam's ass; title: Find me some amendments; title: The meaning of devotion; title: I'd gladly die right now; title: Joint joints; title: A final rollup; title: Some things do not come to pass.