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Crook County: Racism and Injustice in America's Largest Criminal Court

by Nicole Gonzalez Van Cleve

Stanford Univ. 2016. 248p. bibliog. ISBN 9780804790437. pap. $24.

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The result of a decade-long investigation of the practices in the largest criminal court in the country, Chicago-Cook County, these behind-the-scenes observations outline patterns of racial inequity that blunt justice for people of color.

Reviewed by Joan Pedzich , Jul 01, 2016

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