| Contempt of Court: A Scholar's Battle for Free Speech from Behind Bars Contributor(s): Scarce, Rik (Author), Adler, Patricia a. (Foreword by), Adler, Peter (Foreword by) |
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ISBN: 0759106436 ISBN-13: 9780759106437 Publisher: Altamira Press OUR PRICE: $47.50 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: June 2005 Annotation: In 1993 Rik Scarce was imprisoned for refusing to testify to a federal grand jury about his interviews with animal rights activists who had broken into a research laboratory. This retelling of his incarceration and his ethical stance is a painful, rare glimpse of the jail world, and will be essential reading for those concerned with American criminal justice and civil liberties. Visit our website for sample chapters! |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Penology |
| Dewey: B |
| LCCN: 2004029786 |
| Series: Crossroads in Qualitative Inquiry |
| Physical Information: 0.6" H x 6.74" W x 8.86" (0.86 lbs) 248 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher 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. |