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The Politics Of Justice: Navigating The Waters Between Legal Efficacy And Racial Profiling In The State Of Maine, Joseph G.E. Gousse
The Politics Of Justice: Navigating The Waters Between Legal Efficacy And Racial Profiling In The State Of Maine, Joseph G.E. Gousse
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This thesis examines the issue and causal factors of racial disparity in Maine’s contemporary penal system. More pointedly, this thesis examines the ways in which contemporary Maine society functions to procure the causal factors responsible for conditioning racial minorities as “criminalized” populations, thus stimulating overrepresentation in the criminal justice system. This thesis focuses on Native American populations in the state of Maine and the historical, socio-economic, political, and legal ways in which the state has interacted with and subsequently disenfranchised them. Through a comparative examination of the work of legal scholar Michelle Alexander, the well-established argument of the American racial …