Crook County : racism and injustice in America's largest criminal court / Nicole Gonzalez Van Cleve.
Material type:
TextPublisher: Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, [2016]Description: 1 online resourceContent type: - text
- computer
- online resource
- 9780804799201
- 0804799202
- Discrimination in criminal justice administration -- Illinois -- Cook County
- Racism -- Illinois -- Cook County
- Criminal courts -- Illinois -- Cook County
- Minorities -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- Illinois -- Cook County
- LAW -- Criminal Law -- General
- Criminal courts
- Discrimination in criminal justice administration
- Minorities -- Legal status, laws, etc
- Racism
- Illinois -- Cook County
- 345.773/010890097731 23
- KFI1799.C62 C728 2016
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction : opening the courthouse doors -- Separate and unequal justice -- Of monsters and mopes : racial and criminal "immorality" -- Race in everyday legal practices -- There are no racists here : prosecutors in the criminal courts -- Rethinking Gideon's army : defense attorneys in the criminal courts -- Conclusion : racialized punishment in the courts : a call to action.
Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on May 13, 2016).
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