CNX 276: Race, Class, and the Criminal Justice System
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"How can the life of such a man
Be in the palm of some fool's hand ?
To see him obviously framed
Couldn't help but make me feel ashamed
To live in a land where justice is a game."
- Bob Dylan, "Hurricane"
Selected Readings
Deadly Injustice: Trayvon Martin, race, and the criminal justice system by Call Number: HV 9950 .D425 2015ISBN: 9781479894291Publication Date: 2015
They Can't Kill Us All: Ferguson, Baltimore, and a new era in America's racial justice movement by Call Number: coming soonISBN: 9780316312479Publication Date: 2016
Crook County: racism and injustice in America's largest criminal court by Call Number: KF I1799.C62 C728 2016ISBN: 9780804790437Publication Date: 2016
From the War on Poverty to the War on Crime: the making of mass incarceration in America by Call Number: HV 9950 .H56 2016ISBN: 9780674737235Publication Date: 2016
Public Passion: rethinking the grounds for political justice by Call Number: JA 74.5 .K55 2011ISBN: 9780773539266Publication Date: 2011also available as an ebook
Anger and Forgiveness: resentment, generosity, justice by Call Number: BJ 1535 .A6 N87 2016ISBN: 9780199335879Publication Date: 2016
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