No Equal Justice
Date Submitted: 06/17/2004 13:14:14
Category: / Law & Government / Government & Politics
Length: 2 pages (545 words)
Category: / Law & Government / Government & Politics
Length: 2 pages (545 words)
The American criminal-justice system, writes Georgetown law professor David Cole, has effectively become a two-tiered system, with differing levels of regard depending on the race or class of a given citizen who comes into contact with it. The thousands of African Americans who have been confronted by law-enforcement agents nationwide for "fitting the description" of alleged perpetrators would likely agree, but, according to Cole, it isn't just the cops that operate this way; judges, prosecutors,
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a little too much blames on the Supreme Court, it still shows the biases real well within our system of justice. Thought, as I stated before that I felt that this book was scholarly while at the same time being easy to read, I do feel that the book could spend a little more time on solutions; case examples and the minority problems which cause crime within our society-but this is a good book overall.
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