Contempt of Court: A Scholar's Battle for Free Speech from Behind Bars (Crossroads in Qualitative Inquiry)

Contempt of Court: A Scholar's Battle for Free Speech from Behind Bars (Crossroads in Qualitative Inquiry) image
ISBN-10:

0759106428

ISBN-13:

9780759106420

Author(s): Scarce, Rik
Released: Jun 22, 2005
Publisher: AltaMira Press
Format: Hardcover, 248 pages
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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.

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