Crook County : racism and injustice in America's largest criminal court

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Crook County : racism and injustice in America's largest criminal court

Title remainder

racism and injustice in America's largest criminal court

Statement of responsibility

Nicole Gonzalez Van Cleve

Creator

• Van Cleve, Nicole Gonzalez

Author

• Van Cleve, Nicole Gonzalez

Subject

• Criminal courts
• Minorities -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- Illinois | Cook County
• Racism -- Illinois | Cook County
• Discrimination in criminal justice administration
• Criminal courts -- Illinois | Cook County
• Discrimination in criminal justice administration -- Illinois | Cook County
• Racism
• Illinois -- Cook County
• Illinois -- Cook County
• Minorities -- Legal status, laws, etc

Language

eng

Summary

"Nicole Gonzalez Van Cleve spent ten years working in and investigating the largest criminal courthouse in the country, Chicago-Cook County, and based on over 1,000 hours of observation, she takes readers inside our so-called halls of justice to witness the types of everyday racial abuses that fester within the courts, often in plain sight. We watch white courtroom professionals classify and deliberate on the fates of mostly black and Latino defendants while racial abuse and due process violations are encouraged and even seen as justified. Judges fall asleep on the bench. Prosecutors hang out like frat boys in the judges' chambers while the fates of defendants hang in the balance. Public defenders make choices about which defendants they will try to 'save' and which they will sacrifice. Sheriff's officers cruelly mock and abuse defendants' family members. Crook County's powerful and at times devastating narratives reveal startling truths about a legal culture steeped in racial abuse. Defendants find themselves thrust into a pernicious legal world where courtroom actors live and breathe racism while simultaneously committing themselves to a colorblind ideal. Van Cleve urges all citizens to take a closer look at the way we do justice in America and to hold our arbiters of justice accountable to the highest standards of equality"--Jacket

Cataloging source

CSt/DLC

Dewey number

345.773/010890097731

Index

index present

LC call number

KFI1799.C62

LC item number

C728 2016

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography