Police brutality, racial profiling, and discrimination in the criminal justice system /

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Imprint:Hershey, PA : IGI Global, Information Science Reference, [2017]
Description:xxiii, 371 pages ; 27 cm.
Language:English
Series:A volume in the Advances in religious and cultural studies (ARCS) book series
Advances in religious and cultural studies (ARCS) book series.
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11039815
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Other authors / contributors:Egharevba, Stephen, 1962- editor.
ISBN:9781522510888
1522510885
9781522510895
Notes:Includes bibliographical references (pages 312-363) and index.
Summary:"This book is an authoritative reference source for the latest scholarly material on social problems involving victimization of minorities and police accountability and presenting relevant perspectives on a global and cross-cultural scale"--
Table of Contents:
  • Understanding fairness, equality, and police legitimacy / Egharevba, Stephen
  • Perception of race discrimination by the police in Europe / Larsson, Daniel. & Schmauch, Ulrika
  • Preference does not have to be personal : explaining police perception within a cross-cultural perspective in Finland / Egharevba, Stephen
  • Police legitimacy conflicting centres : policing in Southern Africa / Chirambwi, Kudakwashe
  • Crime witnesses' non-cooperation in police investigations : causes and consequences in Nigeria / Ojedokun, Usman Adekunle
  • The color of victimology : an analysis of race and crimes / Hernandezpeterson, Kyrie
  • Absence of crime in African migrants' gambling and policing in Finland : an analysis / Crentsil, Perpetual
  • The spiral effect of incarceration : bridging the gap between inmates and families / Ikponwosa, Ekunwe & Egharevba, Stephen
  • Authority and legitimacy : a quantitative study of youth's perceptions on the Brazilian police / Stamatakis, Nikolaos
  • Defining and understanding the development of juvenile delinquency from an environmental, sociological, and theoretical perspective / Barone, Peter Arthur
  • Minorities in the criminal courts adjudication : perceptions of fairness and equality of treatment / Ousley, Ron
  • Migrants and effective legal representation in criminal cases via legal aid systems / Sorvatzioti, Demetra F.
  • The mass incarceration of undocumented Latinos/as in the prison-immigration industrial complex : the collateral consequences / Valesquez, Roberto Jose
  • Exploring the complexities associated to victimization : addressing media sensationalism and race / Hutton, Erica.