David Cole

Broschiertes Buch

No Equal Justice

Race and Class in the American Criminal Justice System

Beschreibung

In a hard-hitting study hailed by "Publishers Weekly" as "well-argued" and "passionate, " a leading constitutional scholar reveals that, despite a veneer of neutrality, race- and class-based double standards operate in virtually every criminal justice setting, from police behavior to jury selection to sentencing.

Autor

David Cole is the George Mitchell Professor of Law and Public Policy at Georgetown University Law Center. He is also a regular contributor to the New York Review of Books and the legal affairs correspondent for The Nation . He is the author of No Equal Justice: Race and Class in the American Criminal Justice System, the American Book Award-winning Enemy Aliens: Double Standards and Constitutional Freedoms in the War on Terrorism, and The Torture Memos: Rationalizing the Unthinkable and is a co-author (with James Dempsey) of Terrorism and the Constitution: Sacrificing Civil Liberties in the Name of National Security and (with Jules Lobel) of Less Safe, Less Free: Why America Is Losing the War on Terror, both published by The New Press. He lives in Washington, D.C.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: New Press
• Seitenzahl: 232
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Februar 2000
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 304g
• ISBN-13: 9781565845664
• ISBN-10: 1565845668
• Artikelnr.: 21863689