02633cam a2200325 4500 867110163 TxAuBib 20230621120000.0 ||||||s2023||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9781666103755 1666103756 fd4dfa02-4ad4-4687-9802-cb2ec762cacd OverDrive (Reserve ID) 9725122 OverDrive (Product ID) TxAuBib Van Cleve, Nicole Gonzalez. Crook County [Libby Audiobook] : Racism and Injustice in America's Largest Criminal Court. Tantor Media, Inc., 2023. Format: OverDrive OverDrive MP3 Audiobook, Filesize: 280MB. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Listen, Filesize: 280MB. Judicial System. discrimination. Criminal Law. Americans are slowly waking up to the dire effects of racial profiling, police brutality, and mass incarceration, especially in disadvantaged neighborhoods and communities of color. Crook County bursts open the courthouse doors to reveal a world of punishment determined by race, not offense. Nicole Gonzalez Van Cleve spent ten years working in and investigating the largest criminal courthouse in the country, Chicago-Cook County, and she takes listeners 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. 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. Crook County's powerful and at times devastating narratives reveal startling truths about a legal culture steeped in racial abuse. Gonzalez 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. Nonfiction. Sociology. Law. Media Type: Audiobook. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2023-06-21 20:00:02. https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=fd4dfa02-4ad4-4687-9802-cb2ec762cacd&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive MP3 Audiobook) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=fd4dfa02-4ad4-4687-9802-cb2ec762cacd&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Listen)