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02357aam a2200373 i 4500 001 81CCBED28FC011ECBA4AA6A62FECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20220217010136 008 210323t20212021mdu b 001 0 eng 010 $a 2021011761 020 $a 1538138506 020 $a 9781538138502 035 $a (OCoLC)1243906068 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d BDX $d OCLCO $d YDX $d OCLCF $d YDX $d CIA $d YUS $d GWL $d MNE $d COO $d CLU $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a n-us--- 050 00 $a HV9950 $b .D53 2021 100 1 $a Diaz, Tom, $e author. 245 10 $a Broken scales : $b race and the crisis of justice in a divided America / $c Tom Diaz. 264 1 $a Lanham, Maryland : $b Rowman & Littlefield, $c [2021] 300 $a vii, 217 pages ; $c 24 cm 504 $a Includes bibliographical references (pages 207-212) and index. 505 0 $a The lens of racial perception -- Alabama : a notional fiction -- Midnight matters -- Victims -- Heritage -- The assembly line -- Through a lens darkly -- No n-words anywhere. 520 $a "Tom Diaz proposes that the everyday actions of ordinary people, in the context of extreme political and cultural polarization, distort the criminal justice system and betray the ideals expressed in American founding documents and centuries of Anglo-American articulations of basic human rights. These everyday actions range across a spectrum from the armed intervention of private citizens in the forms of individual action, neighborhood watches, and citizen's arrests, to the expectations imposed on law enforcement, in particular, and the criminal justice system in general"-- $c Provided by the publisher. 650 0 $a Discrimination in criminal justice administration $z United States. 650 0 $a Polarization (Social sciences) $z United States. 650 0 $a Racism $z United States $x History $y 21st century. 651 0 $a United States $x History $x History $y 21st century. 650 7 $a Race in the United States criminal justice system. $2 wikidata $1 https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7278959 776 08 $i Online version: $a Diaz, Tom. $t Broken scales. $d Lanham, Maryland : Rowman & Littlefield, [2021] $z 9781538138519 $w (OCoLC)1243908664 $w (OCoLC)1243908664 941 $a 2 952 $l UVAX975 $d 20240215014350.0 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20230517011511.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=81CCBED28FC011ECBA4AA6A62FECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search