Broken Scales: Race and the Crisis of Justice in a Divided America - Paperbackby Tom Diaz (Author) This book analyzes the everyday actions of ordinary people in the context of extreme political and cultural polarization, distort the criminal justice system and betray the lofty ideals expressed in American founding documents and centuries of Anglo American articulations of basic human rights. Author Biography Tom Diaz is a retired lawyer and former journalist who lives in the Washington, DC area. He has written five other non