02462oam 2200493 450 991079296820332120190911112724.01-78714-991-9(OCoLC)988278624(MiFhGG)GVRL13WE(EXLCZ)99371000000138637920170725d2017 uy 0engurun|---uuuuardacontentrdamediardacarrierRace, ethnicity and law /edited by Mathieu Deflem, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC, USAFirst edition.United Kingdom :Emerald Publishing,2017.1 online resource (x, 294 pages) illustrationSociology of crime, law and deviance,1521-6136 ;v. 221-78714-604-9 1-78714-603-0 Includes bibliographical references and index.Prelims -- Introduction: the laws of race, ethnicity and law -- Law and black lives -- Disparities in sentencing and punishment -- Systems and mechanisms of inequality -- Index.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.Sociology of crime, law, and deviance ;v. 22.Discrimination in criminal justice administrationRace discriminationCrime and raceRacism in criminologyDiscrimination in criminal justice administration.Race discrimination.Crime and race.Racism in criminology.364Deflem MathieuMiFhGGMiFhGGBOOK9910792968203321Race, ethnicity and law3848473UNINA