Race to injustice
Subtitle: lessons learned from the Duke lacrosse rape case
By: Michael L. Seigel.
Contributors: Seigel, Michael L.
Publisher: Carolina Academic Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Durham, N.C
Language: eng
Number of pages: 413
ISBN-13: 9781594605147
Subjects: Nifong, Michael Byron; Malicious prosecution -- North Carolina -- Durham -- History; Criminal investigation -- North Carolina -- Durham -- History; Rape -- North Carolina -- Durham -- History; Criminal investigation -- North Carolina -- Durham; Discrimination in criminal justice administration -- United States; Campus violence -- United States; College students -- United States -- Alcohol use
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The facts and only the facts / Robert L. Luck and Michael L. Seigel; title: Faculty reactions, contentious debate, and academic freedom / Robert M. O'Neil; title: The town-gown relationship / Sharon Rush; title: Alcohol consumption on college campuses / George W. Dowdall; title: Invisible criminality : male peer-support groups, alcohol, and the risk of aggressive sexual behavior / Michelle S. Jacobs; title: Black Venus Hottentot revisited : gratuitous use of women of color's bodies and the role of race and gender in campus and academic reactions / Michele Alexandre; title: Racial politics and discretion in criminal law / Janine Young Kim; title: The Duke lacrosse players and the media : why the fair trial-free press paradigm doesn't cut it anymore / Andrew E. Taslitz; title: When prosecutorial discretion meets disaster capitalism / Lenese Herbert; title: The Duke defendants reaped the benefits of a zealous defense-but do only the rich get real lawyers? / Rodney Uphoff; title: An examination of the district attorney's alleged unethical conduct / Kenneth Williams; title: The moment of truth : the decision to institute charges in a rape case / Michael L. Seigel; title: The Duke lacrosse rape investigation : how not to do eyewitness-; title: Identification procedures / Gary L. Wells, Brian L. Cutler, and Lisa E. Hasel; title: DNA profiling / Paul C. Giannelli; title: Presuming guilt or protecting victims? : analyzing the special treatment of those accused of rape / Aviva Orenstein.