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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...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Nurse, Angus
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Bristol : Bristol University Press, 2021.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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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