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Justice in Everyday Life: The Way It Really Works, Vol. 6 »

Authors: Howard Zinn
ISBN-13: 9780896086777, ISBN-10: 0896086771
Format: Paperback
Publisher: South End Press
Date Published: September 2002
Edition: (Non-applicable)

Howard Zinn's powerful anthology on the way justice really works in the United States.

	Preface to the South End Press Edition
	Introduction: Justice in Everyday Life
1	Police	1
	Justifiable Homicide: Due Process for Franklin Lynch	3
	Hemenway Street	11
	The Police and Johnny K.	21
	George Enos and the Baby Carriage	30
	The Complaint of Jamie Wickens	41
	Triple Jeopardy	59
	Aberration - or Pattern?	63
2	Courts	75
	Elijah Adlow's Court
	Gideon's Trumpet and the Mass Defenders	92
	The Rendition of Malik Hakim	100
	A Jury of One's Peers	107
	The Unimportant Case: Jose Gonzales	110
	A "Prostitute" in Morrisey's Court	117
	Commonwealth v. Jones: The Case of Pepe	126
3	Prisons	141
	Punishment	143
	Charles Street Jail	155
	Walpole	163
	Journal from Hell - Jimmy Barrett's Diary in the DSU - Bridgewater	173
4	Housing	193
	Jusice Is Having a Decent Place to Live	195
	The Eviction of Peter and Catherine Hannon	207
5	Work	215
	Injustice at Work	217
6	Health	231
	Two-Class Health Care in the Boston Ghetto	233
	Mental Institutions for the Poor	251
	Mental Institutions for the Well-Off	259
	A Postscript	271
7	Schools	273
	All Schools Are Prep Schools	275
	Sexual Tracking and Other School Tricks	283
	The Wellesley Incident	291
	A Black Student Sits in the Assembly While the Mayor Speaks ("If You're Black, There's No Explanation")	309
8	Fighting Back	319
	"The People First" versus Judge Troy	321
	Tenants Organizing	334
	Winning Back Jobs at Boston State	345
	Conclusion: Fighting Back	353

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