Book Reviews : CHRISTOPHER MCCRUDDEN, DAVID J. SMITH AND COLIN BROWN, WITH JIM KNOX, Racial Justice at Work: Enforcement of the Race Relations Act 1976 in Employment. London: Policy Studies Institute, 1991, 301 pp., £35
| DOI | 10.1177/096466399300200108 |
| Date | 01 March 1993 |
| Published date | 01 March 1993 |
| Author | Heleen F.P. Ietswaart |
| Subject Matter | Articles |
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crime.
In
Mullins’s
(1973)
terms,
the
appearance
of
this
volume
may
mark
the
emergence
of
a
self-identified
group
of
criminologists
of
state
activity
in
the
’network’
stage
of
scientific
development.
In
due
course,
other
students
of
crime
may
come
to
focus
their
energies
and
critical
discourse
on
the
studies
in
this
volume,
and
other
studies
arising
under
its
influence,
as
Barak
contemplates,
leading
to
higher
levels
of
social
scientific
organization
and
shared
discourse.
This
volume
is
a
more
than
satisfactory
beginning;
it
remains
to
be
seen
whether
the
network
consolidates
and
expands
its
sphere
of
criminological
influence
and
study.
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ROBERT
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HAUHART
DC
Public
Defender
Service
and
Department
of Sociology,
George
Washington
University,
Washington,
DC
CHRISTOPHER
MCCRUDDEN,
DAVID
J.
SMITH
AND
COLIN
BROWN,
WITH
JIM
KNOX,
Racial
Justice
at
Work:
Enforcement
of
the
Race
Relations
Act
1976
in
Employment.
London:
Policy
Studies
Institute, 1991,
301
pp., £35.
This
book
contains
a
serious
and
thorough
analysis
of
the
implementation
of
the
Race
Relations
Act
of
1976,
covering
the
period
1977
to
1985.
It
concerns
mostly
employment
relations,
but
also
mentions
housing.
The
study
is
placed
in
the
context
of
others
concerning
race
relations
and
discrimination,
and
it is
carefully
executed.
In
a
sense,
the
book
concerns
race
relations
and
a
number
of
aspects
of
social
change
that
hopefully
go
in
the
direction
of
the
widespread
acceptance
of
a
multiracial
society
in
England.
It
concentrates
on
the
contribution
that
the
state
has
made
to
this
social
change,
through
the
Commission
for
Racial
Equality
(CRE).
In
another
sense,
the
book
is
about
a
large
bureaucracy,
operating
between
politics
and
the
judiciary.
It
is
hard
to
study
bureaucracies,
and
the
special
merits
of
Ractal Justtce
at
Work
is
that
it
draws
a
clear
picture
of
the
working
conditions
of
the
officers
who
confront,
on
a
daily
basis,
the
difficult
struggle
in
the
area
of
race.
It
shows
clearly,
although
implicitly,
that that
struggle
is
never
won,
but
takes
on
different
forms
all
the
time.
The
book
is
in
the
fine
tradition
of
Lipsky’s
Street
Level
Bureaucracy
(1980).
It
is
a
bottom-up
study
of
bureaucrats
as
underdogs,
always
under
fire
from
various
sides,
always
short
of
resources
to
do
their
work
properly,
in
permanent
fear
of
the
judiciary
who
may
find
that
their
work
violates
rules
of
law,
but
systematically
resisting
outside
pressures
while
pursuing
what
they
have
come
to
see
as
their
goal
the
best
they
can.
Racwl
justice
at
Work
is
a
nice
example
of
how
researchers
with
critical
questions
and
a
comprehensive
research
design
develop
more
and
more
sympathy
for
their
object
of
study,
once
the
latter
has
taken
on
the
concrete
forms
of
hard-working,
serious
and
at
times
frustrated
people.
In
Chapter
1,
the
authors
formulate
the
theme
of
their
study
in
a
different
way.
Their
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