Racial divide : racial and ethnic bias in the criminal justice system / edited by Michael J. Lynch, E. Britt Patterson and Kristina K. Childs.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Lynch, Michael J.

Patterson, E. Britt.

Childs, Kristina K.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Criminal justice, Administration of--United States.

Criminal justice, Administration of.

United States.

Discrimination in criminal justice administration--United States.

Discrimination in criminal justice administration.

Race discrimination--United States.

Race discrimination.

United States--Race relations.

Race relations.

Physical Description:

ix, 301 pages ; 22 cm

Other Title:

Racial and ethnic bias in the criminal justice system

Place of Publication:

Monsey, N.Y. : Criminal Justice Press, [2008]

Summary:

This anthology provides a balanced assessment of whether the American criminal justice system is guilty of bias in its treatment of racial and ethnic minorities.

The editors’ introduction views criminal justice system practices within the context of racial and ethnic inequality in American society as a whole. Michael J. Leiber surveys a diverse array of theories used in research on disparities in the criminal justice process. Lorie A. Fridell evaluates evidence of racial prejudice in policing. Perceptions of bias-based policing held by African-American citizens and police officers are described by Brian N. Williams and Billy R. Close. The voluminous scholarly literature on sentencing disparities is analyzed by Amy Farrell and Donna M. Bishop. E. Britt Patterson presents original research findings on differential sentencing patterns among juvenile drug offenders. Michael J. Lynch explores whether minority overrepresentation in the prison population can be attributed to justice system processing biases.

Judith Kavanaugh-Earl and colleagues provide a wide-ranging overview of the effects of race in the application of the death penalty. Findings on the racial profiling of white customers in retail stores are reported by Shaun L. Gabbidon and George E. Higgins. Tom Mieczkowski reviews how race and racial identification have been misused in the forensic sciences. Paul Stretesky explores racial disparities in residents’ proximity to environmental hazards and in the enforcement of environmental regulations.

Contents:

About the authors

Racial divide : the context of racial and ethnic bias in criminal justice processes / Michael J. Lynch, E. Britt Patterson and Kristina K. Childs

Theories of racial and ethnic bias in juvenile and criminal justice / Michael J. Leiber

Racially biased policing : the law enforcement response to the implicit black-crime association / Lorie A. Fridell

Perceptions of bias-based policing : implications for police policy and practice / Brian N. Williams and Billy R. Close

Race, ethnicity and sentencing / Amy Farrell and Donna M. Bishop

Race, drugs and juvenile court processing / E. Britt Patterson

The racial divide in U.S. prisons : an examination of racial and ethnic disparity in imprisonment / Michael J. Lynch

Racial bias and the death penalty / Judith Kavaugh-Earl ... [et al.]

Profiling white Americans : a research note on "shopping while white" / Shaun L. Gabbidon and George E. Higgins

The things that pass for knowledge : racial identity in forensics / Tom Mieczkowski

The neglect of race and class in environmental crime research / Paul Stretesky

Court cases cited.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 263-301).

ISBN:

9781881798866

1881798860

OCLC:

297146559