Race, ethnicity and law / edited by Mathieu Deflem.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: The laws of race, ethnicity and law / Mathieu Deflem -- 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 Killough -- Forty acres and a lawsuit : legal claims for reparations / Kaimipono David Wenger -- Theoretical perspectives and empirical assessments of race/ethnicity disparities in federal sentencing / Celesta A. Albonetti -- Examining sentencing disparity in Virginia : the impact of race and sex on mitigating departures for drug offenders / Lori Elis -- The new Jane Crow : mass incarceration and the denied materinity of Black women / Chenelle A. Jones and Renita L. Seabrook -- Hooked on punishment : symbolic violence and the drug war inside U.S. prisons / Meggan J. Lee and Nick Rochin -- Prisons, race making, and the changing American racial milieu / Gennifer Furst -- Racialized culpability : victim blaming and state violence / Nicholas J. Chagnon -- Latinos and the crimmigration system / Amanda Armenta and Irene I. Vega -- Justice, social control, and social inequality : framing the U.S. juvenile justice system's racial and ethnic disparities / Brian J. Smith -- Drugs and racial constructions / Jeanette Covington -- The intersection of race/ethnicity, gender and the treatment of probation violators in juvenile justice proceedings / Michael J. Leiber and Maude Beaudry-Cyr.

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.

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