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Names: Diaz, Tom, author.
Title: Broken scales : race and the crisis of justice in a divided America / Tom Diaz.
Description: Lanham, Maryland : Rowman & Littlefield, an imprint of the Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, Inc., [2021] | Includes bibliographical references and index. | Summary: “This book analyzes the everyday actions of ordinary people in the context of extreme political and cultural polarization, distort the criminal justice system and betray the lofty ideals expressed in American founding documents and centuries of Anglo-American articulations of basic human rights”—Provided by publisher.
Identifiers: LCCN 2021011761 (print) | LCCN 2021011762 (ebook) | ISBN 9781538138502 (cloth) | ISBN 9781538138519 (epub)
Subjects: LCSH: Discrimination in criminal justice administration—United States. | Polarization (Social sciences)—United States.
Classification: LCC HV9950 .D53 2021 (print) | LCC HV9950 (ebook) | DDC 364.973089—dc23
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