About this Book

First published a decade ago, David Cole’s No Equal Justice has already become the seminal work on race- and class- based double standards in criminal justice. Hailed as a “shocking, and necessary book” by The Economist, the book treats topics including police behavior, jury selection, and sentencing, showing how our system depends on double standards to operate: such disparities allow the privileged to enjoy constitutional protections from police power without paying the costs associated with extending those protections across the board to minorities and the poor.

For this new, 10th anniversary paperback edition, Cole has completely updated and revised the book, reflecting the changes and developments that have occurred in the decade since first publication.