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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Table of Contents:
  • Cover ; Contents; Acknowledgments; Prologue; Introduction; 1. Can the Souls of Black Folk Be Redeemed? Race, Religion, and the Politics of Public Appeals for Salvation from the Execution Chamber; 2. Performing Discretion or Performing Discrimination? Race, Ritual, and the Denial of Participatory Rights in Capital Jury Selection; 3. Do Blacks Die Alone? The Role of Collective Identities in Individual African American Views of the Death Penalty; 4. What We Tell Each Other: African American Folk Knowledge of the Death Penalty.
  • 5. Something Less Than Equal but the Same: The Death Penalty and the Inversion of Equality in African American Politics of PunishmentConclusion: The Death Penalty and the Shared Legacy of Race; Epilogue: Troy, Trayvon, and the Trend toward Abolition; Appendices; Notes; Bibliography; Index.

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