Contempt of Court

A Scholar's Battle for Free Speech from Behind Bars

Häftad, Engelska, 2005

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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.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2005-06-16
Mått171 x 226 x 16 mm
Vikt386 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
SerieCrossroads in Qualitative Inquiry
Antal sidor248
FörlagAltaMira Press
ISBN9780759106437

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Rik Scarce is the author of two books, Eco-Warriors: Understanding the Radical Environmental Movement (1990) and Fishy Business: Salmon, Biology, and the Social Construction of Nature (2000). He is a professor in the Department of Sociology at Skidmore College, and previously taught at Michigan State University and Montana State University. He has also been a newspaper reporter, worked as an aide to two politicians, and has done research and writing for a consulting firm.

Contempt of Court is the story of one man's 'constitutional struggle,' as Rik Scarce puts it, a fight in support of the First Amendment, but an intensely personal struggle as well. His journey to and through jail is a moving study in courage and American ideals in practice. Anyone interested in the darker side of our criminal justice system, and in the lives of all those who are locked in our jails, will find in Contempt of Court a first-hand account like none other.