Race, Ethnicity and Law

Mathieu Deflem is Professor of Sociology at University of South Carolina, USA.

Offering a broad and diverse overview and discussion of a variety of issues of race and ethnicity in multiple areas of law, sociologists cover law and black lives, disparities in sentencing and punishment, and systems and mechanisms of inequality. Among their topics are apartheid justice: gang injunctions and the new black codes, 40 acres and a lawsuit: legal claims for reparations, hooked on punishment: symbolic violence and the drug war inside US prisons, Latinos and the crimmigration system, and drugs and racial constructions.

• Introduction: The Laws Of Race, Ethnicity And Law; Mathieu DeflemPART I: LAW AND BLACK LIVES: Wrongful convictions: the African American experience; Marvin D. Free, Jr.Apartheid justice: gang injunctions and the new black codes; Xuan Santos and Christopher Bickel  Understanding the historical influences on contemporary assessment and counseling issues of African American offenders; Sherrise Truesdale-Moore  When did crime pay, and for whom? The metamorphosis of an academic’s odyssey; James Burnett, Alvin Killough and Eryn KilloughForty acres and a lawsuit: legal claims for reparations; Kaimipono David Wenger PART II: DISPARITIES IN SENTENCING AND PUNISHMENT: Theoretical perspectives and empirical assessments of race/ethnicity disparities in federal sentencing; Celesta A. AlbonettiExamining sentencing disparity in Virginia: the impact of race and sex on mitigating departures for drug offenders; Lori ElisThe new Jane Crow: mass incarceration and the denied maternity of black women; Chenelle A. Jones and Renita L. Seabrook Hooked on punishment: symbolic violence and the drug war inside us prisons; Meggan J. Lee and Nick Rochin Prisons, race making, and the changing American racial milieu; Gennifer Furst  PART III: SYSTEMS AND MECHANISMS OF INEQUALITY: Racialized culpability: victim blaming and state violence; Nicholas J. Chagnon Latinos and the crimmigration system; Amada Armenta and Irene I. Vega Justice, social control, and social inequality: framing the U.S. juvenile justice system's racial & ethnic disparities; Brian J. SmithDrugs and racial constructions; Jeanette Covington The intersection of race/ethnicity and gender and the treatment of probation violators in juvenile justice proceedings; Michael J. Leiber and Maude Beaudry-Cyr