U.s. Latinos and Criminal Injustice

Informationen zum Autor LUPE S. SALINAS , retired judge of the 351st Criminal District Court in Houston, Texas, is Professor of Law at Thurgood Marshall School of Law of Texas Southern University. Klappentext This book addresses the development and rapid growth of the Latino population in the United States and how race-based discrimination, hate crimes, and other prejudicial attitudes, some of which have been codified via public policy, have grown in response. Salinas explores the degrading practice of racial profiling, the abuse in immigration enforcement, the use of deadly force against immigrants, and the barriers Latinos encounter as they wend their way through the court system.

Product details

• Authors: Lupe S Salinas, Lupe S. Salinas
• Publisher: Michigan state university pres
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.07.2015
• EAN: 9781611861761
• ISBN: 978-1-61186-176-1
• No. of pages: 378
• Series: Latinos in the United States; Latinos in the United States
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Ethnology > Ethnology