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Critical race realism : intersections of psychology, race, and law / edited by Gregory S. Parks, Shayne Jones, and W. Jonathan Cardi.

Title
Critical race realism : intersections of psychology, race, and law / edited by Gregory S. Parks, Shayne Jones, and W. Jonathan Cardi.
Publication
New York : New Press : Distributed by W.W. Norton & Company, 2008.

Details

Additional Authors
  • Cardi, W. Jonathan.
  • Jones, Shayne E.
  • Jones, Shayne Edward, 1973-
  • Parks, Gregory, 1974-
Description
xvi, 340 p. : ill.; 26 cm.
Summary
A collection of essays that provides an exploration of racial bias in the legal system, discussing stereotypes, race and juries, the perceived credibility of expert witnesses, prejudice in police profiling, and other related topics.
Subject
  • African Americans > Civil rights
  • Discrimination in justice administration > United States
  • Race discrimination > Law and legislation > United States
  • Race discrimination > United States
  • United States > Race relations
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. [287]-337).
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
Towards a critical race realism / Gregory S. Parks -- Stereotypes and prejudice : helping legal decisionmakers break the prejudice habit / Jody Armour -- Implicit racial attitudes of death penalty lawyers / Theodore Eisenberg and Sheri Lynn Johnson -- Advocacy against the stereotype : lessons from cognitive social psychology / Gary Blasi -- Individual and intergroup processes to address racial discrimination in lawyering relationships / Carwina Weng -- Race and juries : an experimental psychology perspective / Samuel R. Sommers and Omoniyi O. Adekanmbi -- African-Americans on the witness stand : race and expert witness testimony / Veronica S. Tetterton and Stanley L. Brodsky -- Does race matter? : exploring the cross-race effect in eyewitness identification / Steven M. Smith and Veronica Stinson -- The search for racial justice in tort law / W. Jonathan Cardi -- Trojan horses of race / Jerry Kang -- Affirmative action : images and realities / Kristina R. Schmukler, Elisabeth Morgan Thompson, and Faye J. Crosby -- Behavioral realism in employment discrimination law : implicit bias and disparate treatment / Linda Hamilton Krieger and Susan T. Fiske -- African-American families, child maltreatment, and parental rights termination litigation / Matthew B. Johnson, Kideste M. Wilder, and Misha S. Lars -- The law of implicit bias / Christine Jolls and Cass R. Sunstein -- Towards a radical psychology : psychology, race, environment, and crime / Shayne Jones and Michael J. Lynch -- The psychology of hate crime law, victims, and offenders / Megan Sullaway -- Prejudice and police profiling / Roger G. Dunham and George Wilson -- The influence of criminal defendants' Afrocentric features on their sentences / William T. Pizzi, Irene V. Blair, and Charles M. Judd -- Fear and fairness in the city : criminal enforcement and perceptions of fairness in minority communities / Richard R.W. Brooks.
ISBN
  • 9781595581464 (hc.)
  • 1595581464 (hc.)
LCCN
^^2007037608