Race, Ethnicity and Law

by Mathieu Deflem (Editor)

Overview

This new volume of Sociology of Crime, Law and Deviance addresses issues of race and ethnicity within the law and law-related phenomena. Even in today's so-called multicultural, post-racial world racial and ethnic concerns prevail in many aspects of modern law. Contributors to this volume examine racial and ethnic disparities in sentencing and punishment; the continued problematic nature of the African American experience within the US system; the criminalization of immigrants; racial inequities in the administration of drug laws; and the racial disparities that affect juvenile justice. This volume will be of interest to students and researchers in law, socio-legal studies, criminology, criminal justice, sociology and public policy.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781787146044
Publisher:	Emerald Publishing Limited
Publication date:	06/01/2017
Series:	Sociology of Crime, Law and Deviance , #22
Pages:	304
Product dimensions:	5.98(w) x 9.02(h) x (d)

About the Author

Mathieu Deflem is Professor of Sociology at University of South Carolina, USA.

Table of Contents

List of Contributors ix

Introduction: The Laws of Race, Ethnicity and Law Mathieu Deflem 1

Part I Law and Black Lives

Wrongful Convictions: The African American Experience Marvin D. Free Jr. 7

Apartheid Justice: Gang Injunctions and the New Black Codes Xuan Santos Christopher Bickel 27

Understanding the Historical Influences on Contemporary Assessment and Counseling Issues of African American Offenders Sherrise Truesdale-Moore 39

When Did Crime Pay, and for Whom? The Metamorphosis of an Academics Odyssey James Burnett Alvin Killough Eryn Killough 63

Forty Acres and a Lawsuit: Legal Claims for Reparations Kaimipono David Wenger 79

Part II Disparities in Sentencing and Punishment

Theoretical Perspectives and Empirical Assessments of Race/Ethnicity Disparities in Federal Sentencing Celesta A. Albonetti 95

Examining Sentencing Disparity in Virginia: The Impact of Race and Sex on Mitigating Departures for Drug Offenders Lori Elis 115

The New Jane Crow: Mass Incarceration and the Denied Maternity of Black Women Chenelle A. Jones Renita L. Seabrook 135

Hooked on Punishment: Symbolic Violence and the Drug War Inside U.S. Prisons Meggan J. Lee Nick Rochin 155

Prisons, Race Making, and the Changing American Racial Milieu Gennifer Furst 175

Part III Systems and Mechanisms of Inequality

Racialized Culpability, Victim Blaming and State Violence Nicholas J. Chagnon 199

Latinos and the Crimmigration System Amada Armenia Irene I. Vega 221

Justice, Social Control, and Social Inequality: Framing the U.S. Juvenile Justice System's Racial and Ethnic Disparities Brian J. Smith 237

Drugs and Racial Constructions Jeanette Covington 251

The Intersection of Race/Ethnicity, Gender and the Treatment of Probation Violators in Juvenile Justice Proceedings Michael J. Leiber Maude Beaudry-Cyr 269

Index 291

Editorial Reviews

Offering a broad and diverse overview and discussion of a variety of issues of race and ethnicity in multiple areas of law, sociologists cover law and black lives, disparities in sentencing and punishment, and systems and mechanisms of inequality. Among their topics are apartheid justice: gang injunctions and the new black codes, 40 acres and a lawsuit: legal claims for reparations, hooked on punishment: symbolic violence and the drug war inside US prisons, Latinos and the crimmigration system, and drugs and racial constructions.

Annotation ©2017

Offering a broad and diverse overview and discussion of a variety of issues of race and ethnicity in multiple areas of law, sociologists cover law and black lives, disparities in sentencing and punishment, and systems and mechanisms of inequality. Among their topics are apartheid justice: gang injunctions and the new black codes, 40 acres and a lawsuit: legal claims for reparations, hooked on punishment: symbolic violence and the drug war inside US prisons, Latinos and the crimmigration system, and drugs and racial constructions.

Annotation ©2017