Scottsboro and Its Legacy: The Cases that Challenged American Legal and Social Justice: Crime, Media, and Popular Culture
Autor James R. Ackeren Limba Engleză Hardback – 29 noi 2007 – vârsta până la 17 ani
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780275990831
ISBN-10: 0275990834
Pagini: 280
Dimensiuni: 156 x 235 x 25 mm
Greutate: 0.57 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Praeger
Seria Crime, Media, and Popular Culture
Locul publicării:New York, United States
ISBN-10: 0275990834
Pagini: 280
Dimensiuni: 156 x 235 x 25 mm
Greutate: 0.57 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Praeger
Seria Crime, Media, and Popular Culture
Locul publicării:New York, United States
Notă biografică
James R. Acker is Distinguished Teaching Professor at the School of Criminal Justice, University at Albany. He is the author of Wounds that Do Not Bind: Victim-Based Perspectives on the Death Penalty, Two Voices on the Legal Rights of America's Youth, Criminal Procedure: A Contemporary Perspective, and other books, as well as numerous articles and book chapters.
Recenzii
This is a very careful, even painstaking examination of the Scottsboro Boys, the nine black teenagers convicted of raping two white women on a train ride through Alabama in early 1931. Acker (criminal justice, Univ. of Albany) alternately operates in the manner of a private investigator, a defense attorney, or an advocate for social justice. In the process, he intelligently explores the circumstances involving a fight between white and black young men; incendiary charges leveled by a pair of white women, Victoria Price and Ruby Bates; journalistic drumbeats both attacking and defending the accused and their accusers; multiple prosecutions; and the subsequent personal histories of those whose lives were forever changed by the case..Recommended.
Acker provides a straightforward, chronological account of the trial, appeals, and ultimate resolution of the cases. To his credit, he maintains his objectivity, although readers are likely to be filled with moral outrage over his recounting of events that exposed the racial animus that permeated our legal and social systems.
Acker does a good job of explaining the significances of the legal issues involved in the Scottsboro cases.Readers interested in the social and cultural history surrounding the cases should read this book.
Acker provides a straightforward, chronological account of the trial, appeals, and ultimate resolution of the cases. To his credit, he maintains his objectivity, although readers are likely to be filled with moral outrage over his recounting of events that exposed the racial animus that permeated our legal and social systems.
Acker does a good job of explaining the significances of the legal issues involved in the Scottsboro cases.Readers interested in the social and cultural history surrounding the cases should read this book.