Malign Neglect Race, Crime, and Punishment in America

Name: Malign Neglect Race, Crime, and Punishment in America
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ISBN: 9780195077209

ISBN-10: 0195077202

ISBN-13: 9780195077209

Edition: 1995

Authors: Michael Tonry

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Despite the perennial claims of politicians that our courts are coddling hardened criminals, the fact is that America already sends a higher proportion of its citizens to prison--and for longer terms--than any other western nation. To quote the Canadian House of Commons's Committee on Justice, "If locking up those who violate the law contributed to safer societies, then the United States should be the safest country in the world." Yet despite well-documented and mounting evidence that increased penalties alone cannot reduce crime, the Reagan and Bush administrations repeatedly lobbied for tougher mandatory sentences and more prisons. Although black crime rates have been stable for twenty…

Book details

List price: $27.50
Copyright year: 1995
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 1/19/1995
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 248
Size: 5.81" wide x 8.63" long x 0.90" tall
Weight: 0.946
Language: English




Malign Neglect


Crime and Social Welfare


Policy and Mendacity


The Burden on Black Americans


Justifying the Unjustifiable


Doing Less Harm



Racial Disproportion in the Criminal Justice System


Black Offenders, Black Prisoners


Patterns of Crime Participation



Race and the War on Drugs


Why the War Should Not Have Been Declared


The Foreseeable Disparate Impact on Blacks


The Case for the War



Social Adversity and the Criminal Law


Offending Patterns by Race


A Social Adversity Defense?



Social Adversity and Punishment


The Illusion of "Like-Situated" Offenders


An Unjust Society


Sorting out Principles



Social Adversity and Sentencing Policy


Invidious Sentences


Crime Control


Political Honesty



What Is to Be Done?


Thinking About Race


Individualizing Punishments


Revivifying Treatment


Doing Justice


References


Index