Privilege and Punishment (eBook)

How Race and Class Matter in Criminal Court

Matthew Clair (Autor)

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2020
320 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-0-691-20587-8 (ISBN)

Infos

How the attorney-client relationship favors the privileged in criminal court-and denies justice to the poor and to working-class people of colorThe number of Americans arrested, brought to court, and incarcerated has skyrocketed in recent decades. Criminal defendants come from all races and economic walks of life, but they experience punishment in vastly different ways. Privilege and Punishment examines how racial and class inequalities are embedded in the attorney-client relationship, providing a devastating portrait of inequality and injustice within and beyond the criminal courts.Matthew Clair conducted extensive fieldwork in the Boston court system, attending criminal hearings and interviewing defendants, lawyers, judges, police officers, and probation officers. In this eye-opening book, he uncovers how privilege and inequality play out in criminal court interactions. When disadvantaged defendants try to learn their legal rights and advocate for themselves, lawyers and judges often silence, coerce, and punish them. Privileged defendants, who are more likely to trust their defense attorneys, delegate authority to their lawyers, defer to judges, and are rewarded for their compliance. Clair shows how attempts to exercise legal rights often backfire on the poor and on working-class people of color, and how effective legal representation alone is no guarantee of justice.Superbly written and powerfully argued, Privilege and Punishment draws needed attention to the injustices that are perpetuated by the attorney-client relationship in today's criminal courts, and describes the reforms needed to correct them.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 17.11.2020
• Zusatzinfo: 14 tables.
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Recht / Steuern ► EU / Internationales Recht
• Themenwelt: Recht / Steuern ► Strafrecht ► Kriminologie
• Themenwelt: Recht / Steuern ► Strafrecht ► Strafverfahrensrecht
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Makrosoziologie
• Schlagworte: 13th • Accountability • acquittal • addiction • adolescence • Adversarial System • affluence • Affordable Housing • Alcoholics Anonymous • alcoholism • Allegation • all-white jury • appellate court • arraignment • Arrest • Arrest warrant • asshole • At Best • attempt • Ava DuVernay • bail • Bench trial • Binge Drinking • Black lives matter • black people • Boredom • Bryan Stevenson • Bunch of Guys • Career • Center for Court Innovation • child protective services • civil disorder • closing argument • Coercion • community service • Complaint • constitutional law • Continuance • Conviction rate • Copyright • counsel • Court clerk • Courtroom • Courtroom Workgroup • Crime • Crime and Punishment • crime prevention • Criminal charge • Criminal Defense Lawyer • Criminal defenses • criminalization • criminal justice • Criminal Law • Criminal Record • Criminology • critical race theory • Criticism • Decriminalization • defendant • Defense (legal) • deference • Depression (mood) • Determination • disadvantage • Discretion • Discrimination • district attorney • distrust • Divorce law by country • Docket (court) • Dorothy Roberts • Drug Court • drug possession • Employment • Equal Opportunity • ethnography • Everyday life • exculpatory evidence • Explanation • Extenuating circumstances • Father • Graduate school • grand jury • Guideline • handcuffs • Harm reduction • Heroin • homeless shelter • Hugo Black • humiliation • illegal drug trade • Indication (medicine) • indigent defense • Informant • Ingroups and outgroups • Injustice (TV series) • In open court • Institution • interpersonal relationship • Interview • Judiciary • Jurisdiction • Jury • jury trial • Just Mercy • knowledge sharing • Law • Law enforcement • Law School • lawyer • Legal advice • Legal Aid • legal case • legal consciousness • Legal Practice • Legislation • Lockup • mandatory sentencing • Mass Incarceration • master's degree • mental breakdown • Metal Detector • middle class • Miranda warning • misdemeanor • Motion to suppress • Necessity • Negotiation • Of counsel • Oppression • Oxford University Press • participatory defense • paternalism • Physician • plea • plea bargain • Police • Police corruption • Police Officer • police station • Practice of law • Princeton University Press • Prison • Probation • probation officer • Procedural law • Prosecutor • Pro se legal representation in the United States • Public Defender • public defense • Public Expenditure • punishment • Racism • Raj Jayadev • Reasonable suspicion • Recommendation (European Union) • Redress • Respondent • Return on Investment • Revocation • right to silence • Robbery • sibling • Silicon Valley De-Bug • skepticism • Slavery • sobriety • Social Alienation • Social Justice • Sociology • substance abuse • Suggestion • Superior court • Surveillance • Symbolic Power • The Bronx Defenders • Theft • Thesis • Tonya (Japan) • Trade secret • Truancy • Uncertainty • well-being • white people • Writing
• ISBN-10: 0-691-20587-6 / 0691205876
• ISBN-13: 978-0-691-20587-8 / 9780691205878