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Crime --- Crime --- Sex discrimination in criminal justice administration. --- Sex differences. --- Sociological aspects.

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This book is set against the background of the 'justice gap' in sexual assault cases - the dramatic gap between the number of offences recorded by the police and the number of convictions. It seeks to examine the attitudinal problems which bedevil this area of law and possible strategies for addressing them. Written by a professor of law and a professor of psychology, it reviews evidence from socio-legal and social cognition research and presents new data drawn both from interviews with judges and barristers and from studies with prospective lawyers and members of the public. In the final part, it considers different ways in which rape trials could be improved and suggests steps that could be taken to change public attitudes about sexual assault

Rape. --- Rape --- Sex discrimination in criminal justice administration. --- Women --- Public opinion. --- Crimes against.

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In Race, Class, and the Death Penalty, Howard W. Allen and Jerome M. Clubb examine historical trends in the use of capital punishment in the United States. Employing empirical data, the authors explore how frequently the death penalty has been used and how its frequency of use has changed, where the death penalty was used most often, the offenses charged, and the characteristics of the executed. Not surprisingly, their findings indicate that minority groups—particularly African Americans and those of lower social and economic status in general—have been executed in disproportionate numbers. The authors conclude that while the use of the death penalty has progressively declined, and the range of capital offenses has narrowed, disparities in the use of capital punishment between social groups and regions that appeared in the colonial period have persisted into the twenty-first century.

Capital punishment --- Discrimination in capital punishment --- Discrimination in criminal justice administration --- Race discrimination in criminal justice administration --- Criminal justice, Administration of --- Race discrimination in capital punishment --- History. --- United States --- History

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This unique book provides an insight into one of the most disturbing and under-reported issues to affect ethnic minorities in the United Kingdom.Through an assessment of diversity literature and interviews with police officers, it highlights the limited commitment to fulfilling McPherson’s recommendations and the value of diversity training to operational policing. Against the backdrop of Black deaths in police custody, the book questions the extent to which ‘institutionalised racism’ has been genuinely challenged. In October 2007, the Commission for Equality and Human Rights (CEHR) became operational. This development will place a growing emphasis on public bodies - such as the police - to meet their obligations as laid out in the Human Rights Act (1998). By drawing attention to a tragic and little-known problem, this book attempts to offer a genuine agenda for change.

Police misconduct --- Prisoners --- Black people --- Human rights --- Discrimination in criminal justice administration --- Death. --- Death. --- Stephen Lawrence Inquiry (Great Britain)

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Crime --- Discrimination in criminal justice administration. --- Equality before the law. --- Economic aspects. --- Sociological aspects. --- Discrimination in criminal justice administration --- Equality before the law --- Equal rights --- Civil rights --- Justice --- Equal rights amendments --- Race discrimination in criminal justice administration --- Criminal justice, Administration of --- Criminal sociology --- Criminology --- Sociology of crime --- Sociology --- Economic aspects --- Sociological aspects