Blind Goddess

by Papachristou, Alexander

• ISBN13: 9781595586995
• ISBN10: 1595586997
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2011-11-08
• Publisher: New Pr

Summary

The most significant writings of practitioners, professors and advocates to make sense of what is perhaps America's most astonishing and shameful achievement: the highest per capita incarceration of its citizens anywhere in the world, compounded by the shockingly disproportionate imprisonment of poor ethnic minorities. Although there is growing awareness of the huge fiscal cost of mass incarceration, the moral, human and social devastation of racially skewed law enforcement remains largely unrecognised.

Author Biography

Alexander Papachristou, a former practicing attorney, leads and advises social justice organizations focusing on human rights, education reform, and socioeconomic development. Patricia J. Williams is a professor of law at Columbia University and writes the monthly column "Diary of a Mad Law Professor" for The Nation. Both live in New York City.

Table of Contents

Foreword	p. viii
Preface	p. xiii
Setting the Stage: is Justice Really so Black and White?	p. 1
The New Jim Crow	p. 3
Race, Incarceration, and American Values	p. 21
Class, Race & Hyperincarceration in Revanchist America	p. 30
Policing: Where are the Cops when you need them?	p. 47
Profiling Unmasked: From Criminal Profiling to Racial Profiling	p. 49
Stop-Question-Frisk Analyses	p. 57
The Shame of New York City	p. 62
The War on Drugs: Who is the Real Enemy?	p. 65
The War on Drugs and the African American Community	p. 67
Decades of Disparity: Drug Arrests and Race in the United States	p. 80
Lawyering: Whom are the Lawyers Really Representing?	p. 85
Should Good People Be Prosecutors?	p. 87
"What's a Defense?"	p. 100
The Jury: Who are your Peers and Who are mine?	p. 115
Judgment and Discrimination	p. 117
Illegal Racial Discrimination in Jury Selection: A Continuing Legacy	p. 139
Sentencing: Does Time Come in Different Colors?	p. 157
No Exit: The Expanding Use of Life Sentences in America	p. 159
New Political and Cultural Meanings	p. 171
Prison: What are the Walls Hiding?	p. 187
Texas Tough	p. 190
Prisoners of the Census in New York: Democracy on the March!	p. 212
Collateral Consequences: Could it Get Anyworse?	p. 215
Incarceration and Social Inequality	p. 218
Death by a Thousand Little Cuts: Studies of the Impact of Incarceration	p. 224
Solutions: Can anything be done about this?	p. 247
Doing Less Harm	p. 251
The Fire This Time	p. 264
From Racial Profiling to Racial Literacy	p. 293
Notes	p. 297
Bibliography	p. 343
Permissions	p. 349
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