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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.

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Book category Books in English Society & social sciences Social services & welfare, criminology Crime & criminology

• Full title: Contempt of Court
• Subtitle: A Scholar's Battle for Free Speech from Behind Bars
• Author: Rik Scarce
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 248
• EAN: 9780759106437
• ISBN: 0759106436
• ID: 04910435
• Publisher: AltaMira Press,U.S.
• Weight: 384 g
• Dimensions: 228 × 149 × 25 mm
• Date of publishing: 31. May 2005

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