Broken Scales - Race and the Crisis of Justice in a Divided America

This book analyzes the everyday actions of ordinary people in the context of extreme political and cultural polarization, distort the criminal justice system and betray the lofty ideals expressed in American founding documents and centuries of Anglo-American articulations of basic human rights.

List of contents

Chapter 1: The Lens of Racial Perception
Chapter 2: Alabama-A Notional Fiction
Chapter 3: Midnight Matters
Chapter 4: Victims
Chapter 5: Heritage
Chapter 6: The Assembly Line
Chapter 7: Through a Lens Darkly
Chapter 8: No N-Words Anywhere

About the author

Tom Diaz is a retired lawyer and former journalist who lives in the Washington, DC area. He has written five other non-fiction books and a number of monographs and articles about crime, terrorism, and firearms. He is a graduate of the University of Florida and of the Georgetown University Law Center.

Summary

This book analyzes the everyday actions of ordinary people in the context of extreme political and cultural polarization, distort the criminal justice system and betray the lofty ideals expressed in American founding documents and centuries of Anglo-American articulations of basic human rights.

Product details

• Authors: Tom Diaz, Diaz Tom
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.10.2021
• EAN: 9781538138502
• ISBN: 978-1-5381-3850-2
• No. of pages: 226
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Biographies, autobiographies; Social sciences, law, business > Law > Criminal law, criminal procedural law, criminology; USA, True Crime, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Criminology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Violence in Society, United States of America, USA, Violence in society, Crime and criminology, Crime & criminology, Violence and abuse in society, TRUE CRIME / Historical