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Get off my neck : Black lives, white justice, and a former prosecutor's quest for reform / Debbie Hines.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hines, Debbie, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Discrimination in criminal justice administration--United States.
- Discrimination in criminal justice administration.
- Crime and race--United States.
- Crime and race.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (230 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, [2024]
- Summary:
- "An examination of the historical and present racial inequities of the prosecutorial system and a blueprint for transforming the system to one of fairness and justice"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Part I: white justice: the history
- Justice and Black reality
- The prosecutor and the police
- Part II: Black lives: degradation by design
- The template and the truth
- Juveniles, juries, and justice
- Probation: wash, rinse, and repeat
- Part III: prosecutorial reform in action
- Power of the prosecutor
- Power of the people
- Power of white allies
- Power of alliances.
- Notes:
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
- ISBN:
- 0-262-37814-0
- 0-262-37815-9
- OCLC:
- 1409610001
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