Criminal Law
Introduction The concept ‘petit apartheid’ refers to the “everyday insults, slights rough or unnecessary questions, stops and searches of blacks, and brutal treatments”. It posits that this treatment on the black people has a cumulative impact on every stage of proceedings in criminal justice. Petit apartheid includes daily casual, or hidden interactions between the minorities and the police such as stop and search law enforcement practices which may result or may not result in an incarceration or a criminal justice proceeding (Zatz &Mann,1998). This concept has been explored theoretically and in terms of the activities which might fall ...
