Broken Scales: Race and the Crisis of Justice in a Divided America - Paperback

by Tom Diaz (Author)

This book analyzes the everyday actions of ordinary people in the context of extreme political and cultural polarization, distort the criminal justice system and betray the lofty ideals expressed in American founding documents and centuries of Anglo-American articulations of basic human rights.

Author Biography

Tom Diaz is a retired lawyer and former journalist who lives in the Washington, DC area. He has written five other non-fiction books and a number of monographs and articles about crime, terrorism, and firearms. He is a graduate of the University of Florida and of the Georgetown University Law Center.