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5) Our children, their children: confronting racial and ethnic differences in American juvenile justice
Publisher
University of Chicago Press
Pub. Date
c2005
Language
English
Publisher
New York University Press
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
"Is life without parole the perfect compromise to the death penalty? Or is it as ethically fraught as capital punishment? This comprehensive, interdisciplinary anthology treats life without parole as "the new death penalty." Editors Charles J. Ogletree, Jr. and Austin Sarat bring together original work by prominent scholars in an effort to better understand the growth of life without parole and its social, cultural, political, and legal meanings....
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Publisher
NYU Press
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
Formats
Description
The work at hand for bridging the racial divide in the United States
From Baltimore and Ferguson to Flint and Charleston, the dream of a post-racial era in America has run up against the continuing reality of racial antagonism. Current debates about affirmative action, multiculturalism, and racial hate speech reveal persistent uncertainty and ambivalence about the place and meaning of race – and especially the black/white divide