Gringo Injustice (eBook, ePUB)

Insider Perspectives on Police, Gangs, and Law
Redaktion: Mirandé, Alfredo

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Written by insiders with direct and personal knowledge and experience, Gringo Injustice offers a unique, detailed look at the recent and unfolding relationship between Latinos in the U.S. and the legal and judicial systems. The authors critically examine why there is so little public concern and provide timely policy recommendations.

---

Dieser Download kann aus rechtlichen Gründen nur mit Rechnungsadresse in A, B, BG, CY, CZ, D, DK, EW, E, FIN, F, GR, HR, H, IRL, I, LT, L, LR, M, NL, PL, P, R, S, SLO, SK ausgeliefert werden.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 260
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. September 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000022964
• Artikelnr.: 57931955

Autorenporträt

Alfredo Mirandé, a native of Mexico City and the father of three children, is Distinguished Professor of Sociology and Ethnic Studies at the University of California, Riverside. He is a practicing attorney who previously taught at the Texas Tech University School of Law. Mirandé received a BS in social science from Illinois State University, MA and PhD degrees in sociology from the University of Nebraska, and a JD from Stanford University. Mirandé's teaching and research interests are in Chicano sociology; masculinity; constitutional law; civil rights; and the relationship among law, race, class, and gender. He has also published numerous journal articles on sociology, law, and ethnic studies and is the author of The Age of Crisis; La Chicana: The Mexican American Woman (coauthored with Evangelina Enríquez); The Chicano Experience: An Alternative Perspective; Gringo Justice; Hombres y Machos: Masculinity and Latino Culture; The Stanford Law Chronicles: 'Doin' Time on the Farm; Jalos USA: Transnational Community and Identity; and Behind the Mask: Gender Hybridity in a Zapotec Community.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
ALFREDO MIRANDÉ
PART I: State-Sanctioned Violence
1 A History of Anti-Latino State-Sanctioned Violence: Executions,
Lynchings, and Hate Crimes
MARITZA PÉREZ
2 Officer-Involved Shootings of Latinos: Moving Beyond the Black/White
Binary
ROBERT J. DURÁN
3 Interest-Convergence Theory and Police Use of Deadly Force on Latinos: A
Case Study of Three Shootings
ROBERTO RIVERA
4 Killing Ismael Mena: "The SWAT Teams Feared for Their Lives..."
ERNESTO VIGIL
PART II: The Youth Control Complex
5 The Street Terrorism and Enforcement Act: A New Chapter on the War on
Gangs
ALFREDO MIRANDÉ
6 Latino Street Gangs, La EME, and the Short Corridor Collective
RICHARD A. ALVARADO
7 "Captives while Free": Surveillance of Chicana/o Youth in a San Diego
Barrio
JOSÉ S. PLASCENCIA-CASTILLO
8 Hyper-Criminalization: Gang-Affiliated Chicana Teen Mothers Navigating
Third Spaces
KATHERINE L. MALDONADO
PART III: Race, Citizenship, and the Law
9 "A Class Apart": The Exclusion of Latinos/as from Grand and Petit Juries
ALFREDO MIRANDÉ
10 Whiteness, Mexican Appearance and the Fourth Amendment
ALFREDO MIRANDÉ