The Political Roots of Racial Tracking in American Criminal Justice
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Hardback or Cased Book
ISBN-10
1107022975
ISBN-13
9781107022973
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Imprint
Cambridge University Press
Country of Manufacture
US
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Jan 26th, 2015
Print length
406 Pages
Weight
684 grams
Dimensions
15.90 x 23.50 x 2.70 cms
Product Classification:
Ethnic minorities & multicultural studiesCrime & criminologyPolitics & government
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This book examines the role of the public and policy makers in enabling the race problem in the American criminal justice system. It illustrates how the problem consists of not only the overrepresentation of blacks in prisons but also the harsher and less sympathetic treatment of blacks throughout the entire criminal process.
The race problem in the American criminal justice system persists because we enable it. The tendency of liberals to point a finger at law enforcement, racial conservatives, the War on Drugs, is misguided. Black as well as white voters, Democrat as much as Republican lawmakers, President Obama as much as Reagan, both Congress and the Supreme Court alike; all are implicated. We all are ''The Man''. Whether the problem is defined in terms of blacks'' overrepresentation in prisons or in terms of the disproportional use of deadly police force against blacks, not enough of us demand that something be done. The Political Roots of Racial Tracking in American Criminal Justice is the story of how the race problem in criminal justice is continually enabled in the national crime policy process, and why.
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