Search and destroy : African-American males in the criminal justice system / Jerome G. Miller.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Miller, Jerome G., 1931-2015.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Discrimination in criminal justice administration--United States.

Discrimination in criminal justice administration.

United States.

Criminal justice, Administration of--United States.

Criminal justice, Administration of.

African American criminals.

African American men.

Physical Description:

xx, 192 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Edition:

Second edition.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2011.

Summary:

"This book addresses widespread social assumptions associating crime and the imprisonment of African American men"--Provided by publisher.

"This tightly argued and methodologically sound volume addresses widespread social assumptions associating crime and African-American men. An exploration of the criminal justice system in America today and its impact on young African-American males, this book challenges the linking of crime and race and the conservative anti-welfare, hard-oncrime agenda. Jerry Miller has spent a lifetime studying and challenging our criminal justice system. He has worked to make it more progressive and more just. He has watched as it turned into a system of segregation and control for many Americans of color. That is the story told here in condemning devastating detail"--Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: 1. Prologue: from which aristocratic colours peep; 2. Thescope of the problem; 3. Hyping violence; 4. Unanticipated consequences; 5. Race baiting and kitsch; 6. The search for the criminaloid; 7. Banishing indecision; 7. Epilogue.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780521767798

0521767792

9780521743815

0521743818

OCLC:

656771872

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