Criminal Injustice
Racism in the Criminal Justice System
- Publisher
- Canadian Scholars' Press Inc.
- Initial publish date
- Jan 2000
- Category
- Criminology, General
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9781551301648
- Publish Date
- Jan 2000
- List Price
- $54.95
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Description
This volume examines racism within the process of criminal justice. In every society criminal justice plays a key role establishing social control and maintaining the hegemony of the dominant economic classes. The contributors to this anthology argue that the differential treatment of people of colour and First Nations peoples is due to systemic racism within all levels of the criminal justice system, which serves these dominant classes. Ideological and cultural changes are preconditions for the success of anti-racist policies and practices within the criminal justice system and within other state institutions. Recommendations for transformations in justice policy and practice are provided.
About the author
Robynne Neugebauer is Assistant Professor in Sociology at York University. Her research and teaching focus on criminology — policing, inequality in criminal justice, and wife assault; racism; education; and aging.