Index

Race, Ethnicity and Law

ISBN: 978-1-78714-604-4, eISBN: 978-1-78714-603-7

ISSN: 1521-6136

Publication date: 25 May 2017

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(2017), "Index", Race, Ethnicity and Law (Sociology of Crime, Law and Deviance, Vol. 22), Emerald Publishing Limited, Leeds, pp. 291-294. https://doi.org/10.1108/S1521-613620170000022021

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INDEX

ABCL. See American Birth Control League (ABCL)

African American

assessing
, 49–54

community
, 40

conditions of emancipation
, 47–48

correctional assessment instruments
, 55–56

counseling interactions with
, 55–58

ever present anger
, 53–54

foundation of
, 41–49

institutionalization of slavery
, 41–42

justifying slavery
, 42–43

mental diagnoses
, 45–46

offenders
, 40, 49–57

oppression
, 41–49

power of beliefs
, 50–52

racial minorities
, 56–57

spirituality
, 47

vacant esteem
, 52–53

African American men
, 41

African American women
, 41

American Birth Control League (ABCL)
, 142

Anti-Drug Abuse Act
, 224

Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act
, 224

Apartheid justice
, 30–32, 36–37

Apology
, 81, 86

Assimilation debates
, 228–231

BCFA. See Birth Control Federation of America (BCFA)

Behavior within prisons
, 164

Birth Control Federation of America (BCFA)
, 142

Black children in foster care
, 148–149

Black cocaine epidemic of late 1980s
, 260–263

Black women

collateral consequence
, 143–147

literature review
, 138–141

mass incarceration, collateral consequences of
, 145–147

Negro project
, 141–143

oppression
, 138–140

racism
, 138–140

slavery
, 138–140

Black youth, parental separation on
, 147–149

Cal Gang database
, 32

CAPI. See computer-assisted personal interviewing (CAPI)

Citizenship
, 225, 229, 230

Civil gang injunctions
, 30

Clinical Research Bureau (CRB)
, 142

Computer-assisted personal interviewing (CAPI)
, 162

Confessions
, 12

Conflict theory
, 96–97

Contested racial identity
, 192–193

Convicting the Innocent: Sixty-five Actual Errors of Criminal Justice (Borchard, Edwin)
, 8

Convictions. See wrongful convictions

Counseling
, 41, 50, 55–57

Cowboys
, 31

Crime, racialization of
, 179–180

Criminal adjudication
, 98

Criminality and criminal status
, 163, 166

Criminal justice
, 7, 242–246

Criminal law
, 223

Crimmigration system
, 223–225

assimilation debates
, 228–231

Latino crimmigration control
, 226–228

regulates membership
, 225–226

Decision-making under sentencing guidelines
, 118–119

Dependent and independent variables
, 122–124

Detention and court processing
, 245–246

Diagnostic Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders
, 5, 49

Disciplinary action
, 163

Diversification of law
, 2

Drug addicts
, 158–159

Drug cases
, 121–122

Drug history, by race and gender
, 167

Drug revolution of 1960S
, 255–258

Drug use
, 163

Equality
, 1, 238–239

Ethnic dimensions of law
, 1

Ethnicity
, 1

Ethnographic research
, 224–225

Fairness
, 1

False confession
, 12

Federal courts
, 96, 97

Federal sentence severity, theories of

conflict theory
, 96–97

focal concerns theory
, 99–100

legal-bureaucratic model
, 100–101

uncertainty avoidance/causal attribution
, 97–99

Federal sentencing guidelines era
, 104–111

Focal concerns theory
, 99–100

Forensic errors
, 13

Furman v. Georgia
, 15

Gang injunctions
, 28–30

and apartheid justice
, 30–32, 36–37

black codes
, 32–34

case study
, 34–36

historical analysis of
, 30

Gender differences
, 10

Gender disparities
, 271–274

Hypotheses, criminal legal system
, 161–162

Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act (IIRIRA)
, 224

Immigration Reform and Control Act (IRCA)
, 223

Inequality
, 241–242

Informants and snitches, use of
, 12

Intersectionality
, 270, 274, 284, 285

Intersectionality perspective
, 271

Jim Crow
, 82–83, 143

Jim Crow laws
, 32, 34, 36

Judicial decisions, analysis
, 124–127

Justice
, 1, 246–248

Western conceptions of
, 238–239

Juvenile justice
, 242–243, 270, 271, 274, 275

decision-making in
, 3

Lawsuits

denying restitution
, 87–88

dilemma
, 87–89

against government defendants
, 80–81

granting restitution
, 88–89

legal claims, types of
, 83–85

limits of law
, 87–89

from Mass Harms under Jim Crow
, 82–83

official apologies
, 86–87

against private companies
, 81–82

reparations
, 80–83

reparations legislation
, 85–86

Legal-bureaucratic model
, 100–101

Male-dominated crimes
, 10

Males
, 179–181, 182

Masked Racism: Reflections on the Prison Industrial Complex (Davis, Angela)
, 144

Mass incarceration

structural and symbolic violence in
, 160–161

Media
, 203–204

Migration
, 222–223, 225, 226, 229

Multiracial males
, 176

Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
, 33

National Registry of Exonerations (NRE)
, 11

The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness (Alexander)
, 143

Offenders
, 40, 49–57, 119, 120, 124

One Mississippi Black Code
, 33

Painkiller epidemic of 1990s
, 263–265

Perjured testimony
, 14

Personal Treasure Mapping (PTM) process
, 74

Plea bargaining
, 14

Police repression
, 37

Policing
, 244–245

Post-world war II drug epidemic
, 253–255

Pre-federal sentencing guidelines era
, 101–103

Prisons, drug use rules violation
, 168

Prison to freedom

conceptual challenges
, 64–66

conformity
, 70

escape
, 68–69

heuristics approach
, 72–73

innovation
, 71

model
, 69–72

personal journey
, 66–69

rebellion
, 71

retreatism
, 70–71

ritualism
, 70

Sacred Space Program
, 73–76

transformation
, 69

Probation violators
, 271–274

Prosecutorial and police misconduct
, 11

PTM process. See Personal Treasure Mapping (PTM) process

Punishment inside prison
, 158–159

Race
, 1, 117, 118, 119, 121, 124, 204–206, 206–212, 212–214

Race and Justice: Wrongful Convictions of African American Men (Free & Ruesink)
, 15

Race/ethnicity
, 271–274, 278–279

Race/ethnicity disparity

federal sentencing guidelines era
, 104–111

pre-federal sentencing guidelines era
, 101–103

Race in prison
, 180–183

Race making

monoracial categories
, 189–190

racial identity construction
, 190–192

Racial and ethnic disparities
, 243–244

Racial disparity
, 12, 20, 21

Racial identity
, 177–178

on being multiracial
, 188–189

of first-generation multiracial prisoners
, 185

of second-generation multiracial prisoners
, 186

Racialization
, 200, 206, 213

Racial law
, 1

Recidivism
, 64, 65, 73

Rehabilitation
, 240–241

Retribution
, 240–241

Sentencing departures
, 117–118

Sentencing disparity
, 116–117, 127

Sentencing guidelines

decision-making under
, 118–119

Virginia’s truth-in-sentencing guidelines
, 119–121

Sex
, 119

Slave Codes
, 33

Slavery

conditions of
, 43–44

institutionalization of
, 41–42

justifying slavery
, 42–43

Social and youth inequality
, 241–242

Social control
, 246–248

justifications of
, 240–241

Social inequality
, 246–248

Social psychological theories
, 98

STEP Act
, 31

Strickland v. Washington
, 13

Structural and symbolic violence
, 160–161

Symbolic violence
, 160–161

System disparities
, 246–248

Uniform Crime Reports
, 17

U.S. criminal legal apparatus
, 156

Victim blaming

carceral state
, 206–212

criminal justice system
, 202–203

immigration
, 212–214

mediated victim blaming
, 203–204

and race
, 204–214

and state violence
, 206–214

transnational state violence
, 212–214

victim-blaming attitudes
, 201–202

and violence against women
, 201–206

Victim race
, 20, 21, 22

Violence against women
, 201–206

Virginia’s truth-in-sentencing guidelines
, 119–121

War on drugs
, 157–158, 252

White cocaine epidemic of early 1980s
, 259–260

Witness error
, 10, 11, 16, 17, 19, 21

Women in jails and prisons
, 159–160

Wrongful convictions

African American men
, 15–19

African American women
, 19–22

child abuse mirror
, 20

for drug offenses
, 21

estimates of
, 9

factors associated with
, 10–14

false confessions in
, 12

investigation of
, 12

for murder and manslaughter
, 22

non-violent crimes
, 11

problem of
, 8–9

role of race
, 10

sexual assault
, 11, 14

in United States
, 8

victims of
, 17

violent crimes
, 11

website containing data on
, 9

white women
, 21

Youth and criminal justice
, 242–246