Blind justice or blind justices?: on punitive discrimination of Arab criminal defendants in Israel

This article examines discrimination in the Israeli criminal justice system based on the ethnic origin (Jewish or Arab) of both defendants and judges. It does so by analyzing all the motions to revoke convictions of misdemeanors filed by defendants of both ethnicities in magistrate (trial-level cour...

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Main Author: Einat, Tomer (Author)
Contributors: Toys, Sharon
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
Published: 2021
In: Critical criminology
Year: 2021, Volume: 29, Issue: 4, Pages: 763-781
Online Access: Volltext (lizenzpflichtig)
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