Reparations and Anti-Black Racism : a Criminological Exploration of the Harms of Slavery and Racialized Injustice.
Police shootings and incarceration inequalities are two examples of the legacy of slavery in the US and UK. Offering a criminological exploration of the case for slavery and anti-black racism reparations in the context of enduring harms and differential treatment of black citizens, this book refutes...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
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Bristol :
Bristol University Press,
2021.
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- Front Cover
- Reparations and Anti-Black Racism: A Criminological Exploration of the Harms of Slavery and Racialized Injustice
- Copyright information
- Table of contents
- List of abbreviations
- Acknowledgments
- Preface
- 1 Black Lives Matter: The Legacy of Slavery
- Slavery and anti-Black racism
- The post-slavery period
- The civil rights movement
- Racism in the 21st century: Black Lives Matter
- Reparations in context
- 2 Slavery and Reparations: A Criminological View
- Slavery as state crime and state-corporate crime
- Crimes against humanity and reparations discourse
- The principle of reparations: political, legal and social mechanisms
- Neutralization techniques, slavery and anti-Black racism
- The victimology of reparations
- A preliminary criminological view on reparations
- 3 Reparations Litigation: An Overview
- Reparations litigation in context
- Case study: Cato v United States
- Case study: in re African-American Slave Descendants Litigation (2005)
- Case study: the Burge (Chicago police brutality) reparations cases (2008, 2012 and 2015)
- Case study: Tulsa race riot reparations litigation (2003 and 2020)
- Themes arising from litigation
- Denial of injury
- Denial of responsibility
- Denial of victims and victim blaming
- Condemnation of the condemners
- Reparations litigation: preliminary conclusions
- 4 Victims of Slavery and Reparations: Who Suffers?
- The nature of harm
- Intergenerational trauma
- Anti-Black racism and victimization
- Contemporary reparations narratives: harm and trauma
- Case study: Japanese-American reparations
- Some conclusions on 'who suffers?'
- 5 A Comparative Analysis of Reparations
- Genocide reparations in principle
- Case study: Holocaust reparations
- The nature of Holocaust reparations
- Holocaust reparations and slavery reparations: a comparative analysis
- Conclusion
- 6 Unjust Enrichment and the Socio-Legal Case for Reparations
- Defining unjust enrichment
- The first two questions: was the defendant enriched and, if so, was it at the claimant's expense?
- The third question: was the enrichment unjust?
- The fourth question: what kind of right exists?
- The fifth question: what kind of defence exists?
- Contextualizing unjust enrichment
- The nature of restitution
- Unjust enrichment in reparations litigation
- Some conclusions on unjust enrichment
- 7 The 'Value' of Reparations
- Criminological conceptions on value
- What is 'owed'
- The 'narrow' cost of reparations
- Social harm and the wider cost of reparations
- Conclusions on value
- 8 The Nature of Reparations
- Reparations and international law
- International human rights law
- European Court of Human Rights
- Contemporary international law reparations mechanisms
- Case study: the international commission of inquiry on systemic racist police violence against people of African descent in the United States