Ethnicity and Criminal Justice in the Era of Mass Incarceration: A Critical Reader on the Latino Experience is designed as a Latino reader in criminal justice, covering a much broader spectrum of the Latino experience in criminal justice and society, while giving readers a broad overview of the Latino experience in a single book. Considering the shifting trends in demographics and the current state of the criminal justice system, along with the current political climate, this book is timely and of critical significance for the academic, political, and social arena. The authors report sound evidence that testifies to a historical legacy of violence, brutality, manipulation, oppression, marginalization, prejudice, discrimination, power, and control, and to white America s continued fear about ethnic and racial minorities, a movement that continues in the twentyfirst century as we have been witnessing during the 2T52T6 presidential race, highly charged with antiimmigrant and antiMexican political rhetoric. A central objective of this book is to demystify and expose the ways in which ideas of ethnicity, race, gender, and class uphold the functioning and legitimacy of the criminal justice system. In this mission, rather than attempting to develop a single explanation for the Latino experience in policing, the courts, and the penal system, this book presents a variety of studies and perspectives that illustrate alternative ways of interpreting crime, punishment, safety, equality, and justice. The findings reveal that race, ethnicity, gender, class, and several other variables continue to play a significant role in the legal decisionmaking process. With the social control (from police brutality to immigration) discourse reaching unprecedented levels, the book will have broad appeal for students, police officers, advocates/activists, attorneys, the media, and the general public.
Author(s): Martin Guevara Urbina, Sofia Espinoza Alvarez
Publisher: Charles C Thomas Pub Ltd
Year: 2017
Language: English
Pages: 356
CONTENTS
Chapter 1: THE LATINO CONDITION: DIVERSITY,CHANGE, AND SOCIAL CONTROL
Chapter 2: SITUATING CONQUEST, COLONIALISM,SLAVERY, ETHNIC IDENTITY FORMATION,CITIZENSHIP, AND CRIMINAL LAW IN AMERICA
Chapter 3: HISTORICAL AND CONTEMPORARY FORCES GOVERNING HISPANIC CRIMINAL (IN)JUSTICE
Chapter 4: LATINOS IN THE UNITED STATES: UNDERSTANDING THE HISTORICAL AND SYSTEMIC FOUNDATIONS OF RACIAL OPPRESSION
Chapter 5: CRIMINALIZING MEXICAN IDENTITY: PRIVILEGE, POWER, AND IDENTITY FORMATION
Chapter 6: POLICING THE BARRIOS: LATINOS AND LAW ENFORCEMENT OVER THE YEARS
Chapter 7 LATINO POLICE OFFICERS, POLICY, AND PRACTICE: POSITIVE POLICE REFORM OR REINFORCEMENT OF STRUCTURAL HIERARCHIES
Chapter 8 LATINOS AND THE U.S. CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM: THE ROAD TO PRISON
Chapter 9: LIFE AFTER PRISON: RECOMMENDATIONS FOR OVERCOMING LEGAL BARRIERS, COMMUNITY REENTRY, AND STEPS FOR MAKING IT OUTSIDE
Chapter 10: THE THIN BLUE LINE: PROPOSITIONS FORA NEW POLICE FORCE
Chapter 11: THE MINORITY EXPERIENCE THROUGH THE LENS OF THE AMERICAN MEDIA: EIGHT COUNTER-STEREOTYPING STRATEGIES
Chapter 12: MANIFESTATIONS OF HISTORICALLY ENTRENCHED RACIAL IDEOLOGIES IN AMERICAN EDUCATION: TOOLS FOR LATINO STUDENTS IN THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY
Chapter 13: THE NEW FRONTIER: GLOBALIZATION, LATINOS, AND CRIMINAL JUSTICE
Chapter 14: THE FUTURE OF LATINOS AND THE CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM: BRIDGING THE GAPS AND FUTURE RESEARCH
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