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In our chapter we write the wrong by responding to today’s criminal justice system (Bedi, 2003; Omi & Winant, 1994). We identify and address the racial wrongs that the Trayvon Martin case reveals and connect that analysis of the case with the Simon v. State case.
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Hartlep, N.D., Ball, D. (2014). Writing the Wrong. In: Fasching-Varner, K.J., Reynolds, R.E., Albert, K.A., Martin, L.L. (eds) Trayvon Martin, Race, and American Justice. Teaching Race and Ethnicity. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6209-842-8_33
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