Punishing Race A Continuing American Dilemma

Name: Punishing Race A Continuing American Dilemma
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ISBN: 9780199926466

ISBN-10: 0199926468

ISBN-13: 9780199926466

Edition: 2012

Authors: Michael Tonry

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How can it be, in a nation that elected Barack Obama, that one third of African American males born in 2001 will spend time in a state or federal prison, and that black men are seven times likelier than white men to be in prison? Blacks are much more likely than whites to be stopped by thepolice, arrested, prosecuted, convicted, and imprisoned, and are much less likely to have confidence in justice system officials, especially the police. In Punishing Race, Michael Tonry demonstrates in lucid, accessible language that these patterns result not from racial differences in crime or drug use but primarily from drug and crime control policies that disproportionately affect black Americans. These…

Book details

List price: $27.50
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Publication date: 5/29/2012
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 224
Size: 5.59" wide x 8.27" long x 0.59" tall
Weight: 0.550
Language: English



Preface


Acknowledgments



A Continuing American Dilemma



Imprisonment



Drugs



Race, Bias, and Politics



Ideology, Moralism, and Government



Doing Less Harm


Notes


References


Index