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Chapter Ten - Injury Inequality

from Part III - Inequality and/as Injury

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 February 2018

By
Mary Anne Franks
Edited by
Anne Bloom ,
David M. Engel  and
Michael McCann
Anne Bloom
Affiliation:
University of California, Berkeley
David M. Engel
Affiliation:
State University of New York, Buffalo
Michael McCann
Affiliation:
University of Washington
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Summary

Social and legal understandings of injury play a key role in structuring society. They shape our sense of moral obligations to each other, help us assign risk and responsibility, and determine the distribution of economic, psychological, and political resources. In social and legal systems characterized by “injury inequality,” injuries affecting the powerful are exaggerated, while those affecting the vulnerable are downplayed. Distorted assessments of injury produce legal and social practices that reinforce unjust and perverse allocations of risks, burdens, and benefits. Such practices send social messages that directly conflict with a commitment to equality across race, gender, and class. This chapter explores injury inequality and its consequences in the context of three categories of legal and social norms in the United States: justifiable use of deadly force, freedom of speech, and sexual assault.
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Injury and Injustice
The Cultural Politics of Harm and Redress
 , pp. 231 - 247
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2018

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