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Diversity & Racial Justice Resources

General - Books

General - Articles

Prosecution and Race: The Power and Privilege of Discretion
Angela J. Davis
67 Fordham L. Rev. 13-68 (1998)
SSRN            HeinOnline

Integrating Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgender Issues into the Undergraduate Criminal Justice Curriculum
Henry F. Fradella, Stephen S. Owen & Tod W. Burke
20 J. Crim. J. Educ. 127-156 (2009)
HeinOnline

Out of the Whiteness: On Raced Codes and White Race Consciousness in Some Tort, Criminal, and Contract Law
Amy H. Kastely
63 U. Cin. L. Rev. 269-315 (1994)
SSRN            HeinOnline

The Codification of Racism: Blacks, Criminal Sentencing, and the Legacy of Slavery in Georgia
Teri McMurtry-Chubb
31 T. Marshall L. Rev. 139 (2005)
SSRN            HeinOnline

Teaching Gender as a Core Value: The Softer Side of Criminal Law
Melissa Morgan
36 Okla. City U. L. Rev. 525-29 (2011)
SSRN            HeinOnline

Race Trials Symposium
91 N.C. L. Rev. No. 5 (June 2013)
HeinOnline

Includes:

Keynote: "He Is the Darkey with the Glasses on": Race Trials Revisited
Anthony V. Alfieri
pg. 1497

Precious Knowledge: State Bans on Ethnic Studies, Book Traffickers (Librotraficantes), and a New Type of Race Trial
Richard Delgado
pg. 1513

Making Race Salient: Trayvon Martin and Implicit Bias in a Not Yet Post-Racial Society
Cynthia Lee
pg. 1555

Anatomy of a Modern-Day Lynching: The Relationship Between Hate Crimes Against Latina/os and the Debate Over Immigration Reform
Kevin R. Johnson & Joanna E. Cuevas Ingram
pg. 1613

The Lost Brown v. Board of Education of Immigration Law
Gabriel J. Chin, Cindy Hwang Chiang, & Shirley S. Park
pg. 1657

Slaves, Free Blacks, and Race in the Legal Regimes of Cuba, Louisiana, and Virginia: A Comparison
Ariela Gross & Alejandro de la Fuente
pg. 1699

Hughes v. Jackson: Race and Rights Beyond Dred Scott
Martha S. Jones
pg. 1757

Execution in Virginia, 1859: The Trials of Green and Copeland
Steven Lubet
pg. 1785

The Nat Turner Trials
Alfred L. Brophy
pg. 1817

Two Systems of Criminal Justice
David Kairys, ed.
Article included in The Politics of Law: A Progressive Critique, pg. 410-433:

Bias Crimes - Books

Bias Crimes - Articles

Bias Crimes: What do Haters Deserve?
Jeffrie G. Murphy
11 Crim. Just. Ethics 20-23 (1992)
SSRN            HeinOnline

Recognizing Opportunistic Bias Crimes
Lu-in Wang
80 B.U. L. Rev. 1399-1436 (2000)
SSRN            HeinOnline

Bias in Criminal Justice - Articles

Implicit Bias and Clients: An Overview
Bide Akande
18 Com. & Bus. Litig. 14-19 (2016)
HeinOnline

Implicit Bias and Immigration Courts
Fatima E. Marouf
32 Immigr. & Nat'lity L. Rev. 775-808 (2011)
HeinOnline

Bias, Subjectivity, and Wrongful Convictions
Katherine Judson
50 U. Mich. J.L. Reform 779-794 (2017)
SSRN            HeinOnline

Managing Our Blind Spot: The Role of Bias in the School-to-Prison Pipeline
Laura R. McNeal
48 Ariz. St. L.J. 283-312 (2016)
HeinOnline

Present Bias and Criminal Law
Richard H. McAdams
2011 U. Ill. L. Rev. 1607-632 (2011)
SSRN            HeinOnline

Criminal Procedure - Articles

Drug Policy
131 Harv. L. Rev. 926-933 (2018)
HeinOnline

Confessions, Criminals and Community
Sheri Lynn Johnson
26 Harv. C.R.-C.L. L. Rev. 327-411 (1991)
HeinOnline

The Racial Origins of Modern Criminal Procedure
Michael J. Klarman
99 Mich. L. Rev. 48-97 (2000)
SSRN            HeinOnline

Race and the Fourth Amendment
Tracey Maclin
51 Vand. L. Rev. 333-393 (1998)
HeinOnline

McCleskey v. Kemp (1987): Denial, Avoidance, and the Legitimization of Racial Discrimination in the Administration of the Death Penalty
David C. Baldus et al.
Article included in Death Penalty Stories, pg. 229-275:

Racially Based Jury Nullification: Black Power in the Criminal Justice System
Paul Butler
105 Yale L.J. 677-725 (1995)
HeinOnline
Article included in Critical Race Theory: The Cutting Edge, pg. 194-203:

Defenses - Articles

"Rotten Social Background": Should the Criminal Law Recognize a Defense of Severe Environmental Deprivation?
Richard Delgado
3 Law & Ineq. 9-90 (1985)
SSRN            HeinOnline

The Gay Panic Defense
Cynthia Lee
42 U.C. Davis L. Rev. 471-566 (2008)
SSRN            HeinOnline            Lexis+            Westlaw Edge

Battered Women Who Kill Their Abusers in Legal Responses to Domestic Violence
Elizabeth Schneider
106 Harv. L. Rev. 1574-1597 (1993)
HeinOnline

Queers and Provocateurs: Hegemony, Ideology and the "Homosexual Advance" Defense
Michael A. Smyth
40 Law & Soc'y Rev. 903-930 (2006)
HeinOnline            Lexis+            Westlaw Edge

Culture Clash: Teaching Cultural Defenses in the Criminal Law Classroom
Susan S. Kuo
48 St. Louis L.J. 1297-1311 (2004)
SSRN            HeinOnline

Race and Self-Defense: Toward a Normative Conception of Reasonableness
Cynthia Kwei Yung Lee
81 Minn. L. Rev. 367-500 (1996)
SSRN            HeinOnline

Article included in Critical Race Theory: The Cutting Edge, pg. 204-210:

Domestic Violence - Books

Domestic Violence - Articles

Domestic Violence
Dania Bardavid et al.
17 Geo. J. Gender & L. 211-246 (2016)
HeinOnline

Prosecuting Domestic Violence Cases
Farrah Champagne
16 Crim. Litig. 2-6 (2015)
HeinOnline

Should Domestic Violence Be Decriminalized?
Leigh Goodmark
40 Harv. Women's L.J. 53-114 (2017)
SSRN            HeinOnline

Understanding Domestic Violence
Hilly McGahan & Brandi Ries
40 Mont. Law. 14-16 (2015)
HeinOnline

Battered Women and Feminist Lawmaking
Elizabeth M. Schneider
23 Women's Rts. L. Rep. 243-246 (2002)
HeinOnline

The Criminal Justice System's Response to Battering: Understanding the Problem, Forging the Solutions
Kathleen Waits
60 Wash. L. Rev. 267-330 (1985)
HeinOnline
Article included in Feminist Jurisprudence, pg. 188-209:

Drug Policy - Articles

Breaking Bad Policy: Shifting U.S. Counter-Drug Policy, Eliminating Safe Havens, and Facilitating International Cooperation
Brian Srubar
37 Hous. J. Int'l L. 197-234 (2015)
HeinOnline

Lessons from the Law: Designing a More Effective Policy for Suppressing Performance-Enhancing Drug use in Major League Baseball
Conor Craft
22 Sports Law. J. 27-78 (2015)
HeinOnline

Punishing Drug Addicts Who Have Babies: Women of Color, Equality, and the Right of Privacy
Dorothy E. Roberts
104 Harv. L. Rev. 1419-1482 (1991)
HeinOnline

Abusive Prosecutors: Gender, Race & Class Discretion and the Prosecution of Drug-Addicted Mothers
Dwight L. Greene
39 Buff. L. Ref. 737-802 (1991)
HeinOnline

Drug Decriminalization: A Chorus in Need of Masterrap's Voice
Dwight L. Greene
18 Hofstra L. Rev. 457-500 (1990)
HeinOnline

Hostage to the Drug War: The National Purse, the Constitution and the Black Community
John A. Powell & Eileen B. Hershenov
24 U.C. Davis L. Rev. 557-616 (1991)
HeinOnline

High Stakes: The Future of U.S. Drug Policy
Mark A. R. Kleiman
96 Foreign Aff. 130-139 (2017)
HeinOnline

Judges, Juries, Lawyers - Books

Judges, Juries, Lawyers - Articles

Where Bias Lives in the Criminal Law and Its Processes: How Judges and Jurors Socially Construct Black Criminals
Jody Armour
45 Am. J. Crim. L. 203 (2018)
HeinOnline

The Jim Crow Jury
Thomas Ward Frampton
71 Vand. L. Rev. 1593 (2018)
SSRN            HeinOnline            Vanderbilt Law Review

Juvenile Justice - Books

Juvenile Justice - Articles

Juvenile Justice
Jack Carnegie
78 Tex. B.J. 866, 869 (2015)
HeinOnline

Juvenile Justice Policy and Practice: A Developmental Perspective
Kathryn Monahan et al.
44 Crime & Just. 577, 619 (2015)
HeinOnline

Risk Assessment and Risk Management in Juvenile Justice
Christopher Slobogin
27 Crim. Just. 10, 18 (2013)
HeinOnline

The Great Decoupling: The Disconnection Between Criminal Offending and Experience of Arrest Across Two Cohorts
Vesla M. Weaver et al.
RSF Journal, Feb. 2019, pg. 89
RSF Journal

Policing Practices - Books

Policing Practices - Articles

Does Hot Spots Policing Inevitably Lead to Unfair and Abusive Police Practices, or Can We Maximize Both Fairness and Effectiveness in the New Proactive Policing?
David Weisburd
2016 U. Chi. Legal F. 661-690 (2016)
HeinOnline

Using Science to Advance the Police Profession
Howard Spivak, Maureen McGough, & Nancy Rodriguez
40 S. Ill. U. L.J. 457-474 (2016)
HeinOnline

How Many Killings by Police?
Franklin E. Zimring
2016 U. Chi. Legal F. 691-710 (2016)
HeinOnline

Racial Profiling - Books

Racial Profiling - Articles

Indiscriminate Power: Racial Profiling and Surveillance since 9/11
Carlos Torres, Azadeh Shahshahani, & Tye Tavaras
18 U. Pa. J.L. & Soc. Change 283-310 (2015)
HeinOnline

Racial Profiling
David Harris
2 Reforming Crim. Just.: Policing 117 (2017)
SSRN

Racial Critiques of Mass Incarceration: Beyond the New Jim Crow
James Forman Jr.
87 N.Y.U. L. Rev. 21-69 (2012)
SSRN            HeinOnline

Racial Profiling and the Presumption of Innocence
Peter DeAngelis
43 Neth. J. Legal. Phil. 43-58 (2014)
HeinOnline

Racial Profiling: Past, Present, and Future
David Harris
34 Crim. Just. 10-17 (2020)
SSRN            HeinOnline

Rape Law - Books

Rape Law - Articles

Girls Gone Wild and Rape Law: Revising the Contractual Concept of Consent & Ensuring an Unbiased Application of Reasonable Doubt When the Victim is Non-Traditional
Michele Alexandre
17 Am. U. J. Gender Soc. Pol'y & L. 41-80 (2009)
SSRN            HeinOnline

Criminal Law, Moral Theory, and Feminism: Some Reflections on the Subject and on the Fun (and Value) of Courting Controversy
Joshua Dressler
48 St. Louis U. L.J. 1143-166 (2004)
HeinOnline

From Ladies First to Asking for it: Benevolent Sexism in the Maintenance of Rape Culture
Courtney Fraser
103 Calif. L. Rev. 141-203 (2015)
HeinOnline

Teaching Rape Law
Susan Estrich
102 Yale L. J. 509-20 (1992)
HeinOnline

Rape, Feminism, and the War on Crime
Aya Gruber
84 Wash. L. Rev. 581,-660 (2009)
SSRN            HeinOnline

Getting Past Legal Analysis or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Teaching Rape
Michelle Oberman
45 Creighton L. Rev. 799 (2012)
SSRN            HeinOnline

On Teaching Rape: Reasons, Risks, and Rewards
James J. Tomkovicz
102 Yale L. J. 481-508 (1992)
HeinOnline

Date Rape: A Feminist Analysis
Lois Pineau
8 Law & Phil. 217, 243 (1989)
JSTOR

Article included in Applications of Feminist Legal Theory, pg. 484-494: