Cover; Copyright Page; Contents; Acknowledgements; About the authors; 1 Equal justice in a multi-cultural society; 2 Researching perceptions; 3 Perceptions of fairness: a quantitative assessment; 4 Perceiving racial bias; 5 Perceptions of unfairness in context; 6 A question of confidence; 7 The view of informed observers: court officials and lawyers; 8 The judicial and magesterial perspective; 9 The experiences of witnesses; 10 A 'cultural change'?; 11 What still needs to be done?; Appendix; Bibliography; Index
Summary
This book reports on research which investigates the perceptions of ethnic minorities concerning their treatment in the criminal courts. It examines the extent to which ethnic minority defendants and witnesses in both the Crown Court and the magistrates' courts perceived their treatment to have been unfair, whether they believed any unfairness to have been the result of ethnic bias, and whether this had affected their confidence in the criminal courts. The study, carried out by the Oxford Centre for Criminological Research in association with the University of Birmingham for the Lord Chancello
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 151-153) and index
