Race, ethnicity and law /

• Other Authors: Deflem, Mathieu (Editor)
• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Bingley : Emerald Publishing Limited, 2017.
• Series: Sociology of crime, law and deviance ; v. 22.
• Subjects: Social Science > Criminology.; Law & society.; Criminology.; Social sciences.

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 exami...

Table of Contents:

• Prelims
• Introduction: the laws of race, ethnicity and law
• Law and black lives
• Disparities in sentencing and punishment
• Systems and mechanisms of inequality
• Index.