Contempt of Court : A Scholar's Battle for Free Speech from Behind Bars Paperback / softback
by Rik Scarce
Part of the Crossroads in Qualitative Inquiry series
Paperback / softback
Description
In 1993 Rik Scarce was imprisoned for contempt of court in Spokane, Washington.
For five months he refused to testify to a federal grand jury about his interviews with animal rights activists after they had broken into a research laboratory, and his story made headlines in numerous newspapers.
Now Scarce tells of his jailing and the rationale behind his ethical stance, bringing an ethnographer's trained sensibility and a journalist's storytelling skill to his tale.
Viewed as an outsider even by his fellow inmates, Scarce gained from his imprisonment a painful, rare glimpse of the jail world.
This text raises serious questions about the failures of the American justice system and protection of civil liberties, and is a valuable resource for criminologists, sociologists, and corrections professionals.
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- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:248 pages
- Publisher:AltaMira Press,U.S.
- Publication Date:16/08/2005
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- ISBN:9780759106437
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Item not Available
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:248 pages
- Publisher:AltaMira Press,U.S.
- Publication Date:16/08/2005
- Category:
- ISBN:9780759106437
