At the cross : race, religion, and citizenship in the politics of the death penalty

At the cross : race, religion, and citizenship in the politics of the death penalty / Melynda J. Price.

Curing systemic inequalities in the criminal justice system is the unfinished business of the Civil Rights movement. No part of that system highlights this truth more than the current implementation of the death penalty. The findings of this research demonstrate that the racial inequity in the metin...

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Main Author: Price, Melynda J. (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2015]
Subjects:
Capital punishment > United States.
Discrimination in criminal justice administration > United States.
Racism > United States.
Religion and justice.
African Americans.
African American.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Criminology.
African Americans
Capital punishment
Discrimination in criminal justice administration
Racism
Religion and justice
Rassendiskriminierung
Todesstrafe
Social Welfare & Social Work.
Social Sciences.
Criminology, Penology & Juvenile Delinquency.
United States
USA
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Summary:Curing systemic inequalities in the criminal justice system is the unfinished business of the Civil Rights movement. No part of that system highlights this truth more than the current implementation of the death penalty. The findings of this research demonstrate that the racial inequity in the meting out of death sentences has legal and political externalities that move beyond individual defendants to larger numbers of African Americans. This book looks at the meaning of the death penalty to and for African Americans.
Physical Description:1 online resource
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9780190205553
0190205555
9780190254032
0190254033
Source of Description, Etc. Note:Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed June 25, 2015).

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