Latino/a Rights And Justice In The United States: Perspectives and Approaches - Softcover

Morin, Jose Luis

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1594604061 ISBN 13: 9781594604065

Publisher: Carolina Academic Pr, 2008

Synopsis

A much-needed and thought-provoking examination of a significant and growing population within the United States, Latino/a Rights and Justice in the United States explores the inequalities and injustices that Latino/a communities confront in the United States. Author José Luis Morín provides a deeper understanding of the historical and contemporary Latino/a experience of discrimination and economic and social injustice and presents insights into the elusiveness of equality and fairness for Latinos/as in the United States. Offering ideas on how to reduce bias and other inequities within the justice system and the greater society, Morín calls for alternative approaches to working with Latino/a youths and families and a broadening of existing concepts of rights and justice in the United States. Drawing the link between the international and domestic dimensions of the Latino/a presence in the United States, Morín incorporates international human rights norms and principles of economic, social, and cultural rights to address the persistent inequalities and injustices that Latino/a communities confront in the United States. The second edition provides new and expanded coverage about racial and ethnic bias in law enforcement and the criminal justice system, citizenship rights, immigration and crime, Latinos/as and U.S. prisons, the contemporary street gang phenomenon, and Latinos/as in the post-9/11 era. Meticulous in presenting facts and research, Latino/a Rights and Justice in the United States often challenges conventional ideas and popular myths about Latinos/as on these and other topics.

About this title

About the Author:

José Luis Morín is Interim Dean of Undergraduate Studies and former Chairperson of the Latin American and Latina/o Studies Department at John Jay College of Criminal Justice, City University of New York.

About this edition

• Publisher: Carolina Academic Pr
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 1594604061
• ISBN 13: 9781594604065
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 358