Social Science in Court: Mobilizing Experts in the School Desegregation Cases

by Debra S. Kalmuss, Mark A. Chesler, Joseph Sanders

The 1954 landmark school desegregation decision of the U.S. Supreme Court, Brown v. Board of Education, was part of one of the most extensive and tumultuous social/legal movements in the nation's history. The authors of this study employ the school desegregation movement to examine the role of social scientists, and social science, in the litigation process. Covering seventeen desegregation cases in litigation after 1970, they bring together...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0299116247
• ISBN13: 9780299116248
• Release Date: December 1988
• Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
• Length: 300 Pages
• Weight: 0.89 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"