Critical race realism
Subtitle: intersections of psychology, race, and law
By: edited by Gregory S. Parks, Shayne Jones, and W. Jonathan Cardi.
Contributors: Parks, Gregory, 1974-; Jones, Shayne E.; Cardi, W. Jonathan.
Publisher: New Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 340
ISBN-13: 9781595581464
Subjects: United States -- Race relations; Race discrimination -- Law and legislation -- United States; Discrimination in justice administration -- United States; Race discrimination -- United States; African Americans -- Civil rights
Description: A collection of essays that provides an exploration of racial bias in the legal system, discussing stereotypes, race and juries, the perceived credibility of expert witnesses, prejudice in police profiling, and other related topics.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Towards a critical race realism / Gregory S. Parks; title: Stereotypes and prejudice : helping legal decisionmakers break the prejudice habit / Jody Armour; title: Implicit racial attitudes of death penalty lawyers / Theodore Eisenberg & Sheri Lynn Johnson; title: Advocacy against the stereotype : lessons from cognitive social psychology / Gary Blasi; title: Individual and intergroup processes to address racial discrimination in lawyering relationships / Carwina Weng; title: Race and juries : an experimental psychology perspective / Samuel Sommers & Omoniyi Adekanmbi; title: African-Americans on the witness stand : race and expert witness testimony / Veronica Tetterton & Stanley Brodsky; title: Does race matter? : exploring the cross-race effect in eyewitness identification / Steven Smith & Veronica Stinson; title: The search for racial justice in tort law / W. Jonathan Cardi; title: Trojan horses of race / Jerry Kang; title: Affirmative action : images and realities / Kristina R. Schmukler, Elisabeth Morgan Thompson & Faye J. Crosby; title: Behavioral realism in employment discrimination law : implicit bias and disparate treatment / Linda Hamilton Krieger & Susan T. Fiske; title: African-American families, child maltreatment, and parental rights termination litigation / Matthew B. Johnson, Kideste M. Wilder & Misha S. Lars; title: The law of implicit bias / Christine Jolls & Cass R. Sunstein; title: Towards a radical psychology : psychology, race, environment, and crime / Shayne Jones & Michael J. Lynch; title: The psychology of hate crime law, victims and offenders / Megan Sullaway; title: Prejudice and police profiling / George Wilson & Roger Dunham; title: The influence of criminal defendants' Afrocentric features on their sentences / William T. Pizzi, Irene V. Blair & Charles M. Judd; title: Fear and fairness in the city : criminal enforcement and perceptions of fairness in minority communities / Richard R.W. Brooks.