View this manual, a reference in the School's Indigent Defense Manual Series, free of charge at defendermanuals.sog.unc.edu. Raising Issues of Race in North Carolina Criminal Cases is a resource for public defenders and appointed counsel who represent poor people accused of crimes. This publication is also useful to judges, prosecutors, and others who work to safeguard the integrity of the court system. The book describes the ways in which considerations of race may improperly enter into the conduct of a criminal case, and gathers, organizes, and analyzes the law on the intersection of race and the criminal justice system. Ten chapters cover a variety of topics, such as: -stops, searches, and arrests; -eyewitness identification; -pretrial release; -selective prosecution; -composition of grand and trial juries; -trial issues; and -sentencing.

North Carolina Governor Roy Cooper created the Task Force for Racial Equity in Criminal Justice (TREC) in June 2020, by North Carolina executive order 145, to develop policy solutions to address racial inequalities in the criminal justice system.

Volume Two of the North Carolina Defender Manual is a resource for public defenders and appointed counsel who represent poor people accused of crimes. The book focuses primarily on criminal procedure at the trial stage. Chapters cover a variety of topics, such as personal rights of the defendant, selection of the jury, opening and closing arguments, witness examination, and appeals, post-conviction litigation, and writs.

Part of the State-Specific Criminal Justice Series North Carolina's Criminal Justice System provides historical and current information about law enforcement, courts, corrections and the juvenile justice system in the state. North Carolina's crime and criminal justice issues are compared with those of other states, giving the North Carolina criminal justice student special preparation for working in the field of criminal justice in the state. North Carolina's Criminal Justice System is a valuable resource for community college and university faculty. "This is a unique and valuable book. The authors provide a comprehensive, yet engaging, presentation of historical and contemporary criminal justice issues in North Carolina. The presentation of the key components of law making and law enforcement (police, courts, corrections, and juvenile justice) in the state integrates descriptive information with the key themes of our discipline: race, gender, and class. This text is a major contribution to the development of criminal justice programs at institutions of higher education in North Carolina." -- Miriam A. DeLone, Fayetteville State University Chair, Department of Criminal Justice "This is a phenomenal book and a must have for all professionals and students interested in the North Carolina justice system. From the professional profiles to the in-depth informative case briefs, readers are immersed in the state's rich criminal justice history. This book truly encourages learning by grabbing the reader's attention and holding it from beginning to end." -- Aaron A. Cox, Sr., Fayetteville Technical Community College Chair, Department of Criminal Justice "What an excellent comprehensive history of criminal justice in North Carolina. The use of professional profiles, celebrated cases, and the old fashioned photos makes the text more personable, which relates it more closely to student interests." -- Duane Everhart, Wayne Community College Coordinator, Criminal Justice Program The Teacher's Manual will be available electronically on a CD or via email. Please contact Beth Hall at [email protected] to request a copy. PowerPoint slides available upon adoption. To view sample slides from the full 55-slide presentation, click here. Email [email protected] for more information.

In this timely volume, the authors provide a penetrating analysis of the institutional mechanisms perpetuating the related problems of minorities' disenfranchisement and their underrepresentation on juries.

Suspect Citizens offers the most comprehensive look to date at the most common form of police-citizen interactions, the routine traffic stop. Throughout the war on crime, police agencies have used traffic stops to search drivers suspected of carrying contraband. From the beginning, police agencies made it clear that very large numbers of police stops would have to occur before an officer might interdict a significant drug shipment. Unstated in that calculation was that many Americans would be subjected to police investigations so that a small number of high-level offenders might be found. The key element in this strategy, which kept it hidden from widespread public scrutiny, was that middle-class white Americans were largely exempt from its consequences. Tracking these police practices down to the officer level, Suspect Citizens documents the extreme rarity of drug busts and reveals sustained and troubling disparities in how racial groups are treated.