Fwd: Systemic injustice and the criminal legal system

miladyrenoirmiladyrenoir
2024-4-24 14:22

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De : IRR News info@irr.org.uk

Date: jeu. 18 avr. 2024 à 17:28

Subject: Systemic injustice and the criminal legal system

To: miladyrenoirmiladyrenoir@gmail.com

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Dear Milady Renoir,

This week, adding to a growing number of voices and campaigns rejecting the

normalisation of systemic injustice in the criminal legal system, we

publish a special issue

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of *Race & Class *featuring several important interventions.

Providing much-needed scrutiny of the courts, Eithne Quinn exposes how drill

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are used to build secondary liability in group prosecutions, whilst Nisha

Waller and Naima Sakande expose the hidden racist and classist prejudices

behind the shift from unanimous to majority verdicts

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in England and Wales in 1967. To find out more about race, juries and

wrongful convictions, law charity APPEAL are holding an upcoming event

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to discuss their full findings.

Taking readers to the US context, Falguni Sheth explores the judicial act

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Drawing our attention to how the judicial system perceives and treats those

seeking asylum, this week IRR Trustee Frances Webber was featured on the

Still We Rise podcast to discuss

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the prosecution and conviction of Ibrahima Bah – a young Senegalese asylum

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responsible for the drowning of at least four people. Following on from her

article ‘No Safe Routes’

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in the London Review of Books, Webber outlines how legal outcomes are often

influenced by political imperatives – the consequences of which are

recorded in our regular calendar of racism and resistance

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New Race & Class

Systemic injustice and the criminal legal system

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Racism seeps into every aspect of criminal ‘justice’ and radical scholars

are exposing the breadth and depth of the issue. The April 2024 issue of

Race & Class contains cutting-edge articles on the criminal legal system,

adding to a growing number of campaigns voices rejecting the normalisation

of systemic injustice in the courts.

Drill rap lyrics are used regularly by police and prosecutors as plausible

evidence against young Black working-class defendants in UK criminal cases.

In the lead article, ‘Racist inferences and flawed data: drill rap lyrics

as criminal evidence in group prosecutions

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Eithne Quinn, professor of Cultural Studies at the University of

Manchester, examines state interpretations of drill lyrics in the

preparation of serious crime cases, focusing on a 2020 joint enterprise

murder case in London. By forensically unpacking the way the state uses

violent rap lyrics to build secondary liability in group prosecutions, she

shows how drill lyrics are quoted to invoke popular stereotypes and even

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