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Crook County - Racism and Injustice in America's Largest Criminal Court (Paperback)
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Crook County - Racism and Injustice in America's Largest Criminal Court (Paperback)
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Winner of the 2017 Eduardo Bonilla-Silva Outstanding Book Award,
sponsored by the Society for the Study of Social Problems. Finalist
for the C. Wright Mills Book Award, sponsored by the Society for
the Study of Social Problems. Winner of the 2017 Oliver Cromwell
Cox Book Award, sponsored by the American Sociological
Association's Section on Racial and Ethnic Minorities. Winner of
the 2017 Mary Douglas Prize for Best Book, sponsored by the
American Sociological Association's Sociology of Culture Section.
Honorable Mention in the 2017 Book Award from the American
Sociological Association's Section on Race, Class, and Gender.
NAACP Image Award Nominee for an Outstanding Literary Work from a
debut author. Winner of the 2017 Prose Award for Excellence in
Social Sciences and the 2017 Prose Category Award for Law and Legal
Studies, sponsored by the Professional and Scholarly Publishing
Division, Association of American Publishers. Silver Medal from the
Independent Publisher Book Awards (Current Events/Social Issues
category). Americans are slowly waking up to the dire effects of
racial profiling, police brutality, and mass incarceration,
especially in disadvantaged neighborhoods and communities of color.
The criminal courts are the crucial gateway between police action
on the street and the processing of primarily black and Latino
defendants into jails and prisons. And yet the courts, often
portrayed as sacred, impartial institutions, have remained shrouded
in secrecy, with the majority of Americans kept in the dark about
how they function internally. Crook County bursts open the
courthouse doors and enters the hallways, courtrooms, judges'
chambers, and attorneys' offices to reveal a world of punishment
determined by race, not offense. Nicole Gonzalez Van Cleve spent
ten years working in and investigating the largest criminal
courthouse in the country, Chicago-Cook County, and based on over
1,000 hours of observation, she takes readers inside our so-called
halls of justice to witness the types of everyday racial abuses
that fester within the courts, often in plain sight. We watch white
courtroom professionals classify and deliberate on the fates of
mostly black and Latino defendants while racial abuse and due
process violations are encouraged and even seen as justified.
Judges fall asleep on the bench. Prosecutors hang out like frat
boys in the judges' chambers while the fates of defendants hang in
the balance. Public defenders make choices about which defendants
they will try to "save" and which they will sacrifice. Sheriff's
officers cruelly mock and abuse defendants' family members. Delve
deeper into Crook County with related media and instructor
resources. Crook County's powerful and at times devastating
narratives reveal startling truths about a legal culture steeped in
racial abuse. Defendants find themselves thrust into a pernicious
legal world where courtroom actors live and breathe racism while
simultaneously committing themselves to a colorblind ideal.
Gonzalez Van Cleve urges all citizens to take a closer look at the
way we do justice in America and to hold our arbiters of justice
accountable to the highest standards of equality.
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