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- Title
THE RACIAL ARCHITECTURE OF CRIMINAL JUSTICE.
- Authors
Capers, Bennett
- Abstract
One of the pleasures of contributing to symposia--especially symposia where each contribution is brief--is the ability to engage in new explorations, test new ideas, and offer new provocations. I do that now in this essay about race, architecture, and criminal justice. I begin by discussing how race is imbricated in the architecture of courthouses, the quintessential place of supposed justice. I then take race and architecture a step further. If we think of architecture expansively--Lawrence Lessig's definition of architecture as "the physical world as we find it" comes to mind--then it becomes clear that race is also imbricated in the very architecture of the Fourth Amendment. All of this raises an interesting question: If the very architecture of the Fourth Amendment is the problem--not just its interpretation but its very design--what are we to do?
- Subjects
UNITED States; ARCHITECTURE &; race; COURTHOUSE design &; construction; CRIMINAL justice system
- Publication
SMU Law Review, 2021, Vol 74, Issue 3, p405
- ISSN
1066-1271
- Publication type
Article