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American ethnic and racial minority groups immigrants and refugees to thiscountry are disparately impacted by the justice system of the United States.Issues such as racial profiling disproportionate incarceration deportationand capital punishment all exemplify situations in which the legal system mustattend to matters of race and culture in a competent and humane fashion.Race Culture Psychology and Law is the only book to provide summaries andanalyses of culturally competent psychological and social services encounteredwithin the U.S. legal arena. The book is broad in scope and covers theknowledge and practice crucial in providing comprehensive services to ethnicracial and cultural minorities. Topics include the importance of racerelations psychological testing and evaluation racial profilingdisparities in death penalty conviction immigration and domestic violenceasylum seekers deportations and civil rights juvenile justice crossculturallawyering and cultural competency in the administration of justice.Race Culture Psychology and Law offers a compendium of knowledge historicalbackground case examples guidelines and practice standards pertinent toprofessionals in the fields of psychology and law to help them recognize theimportance of racial and cultural contexts of their clients. Editors KimberlyBarrett and William H. George have drawn together contributing authors from avariety of academic disciplines including law psychology sociology socialwork and family studies to illustrate the delivery of psychological legaland social services to individuals and familiesfrom racial minority ethnicminority immigrant and refugee groupswho are involved in legal proceedings. «
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