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African Americans and criminal justice : an encyclopedia / Delores D. Jones-Brown, Beverly D. Frazier, and Marvie Brooks, Editors.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Criminal justice, Administration of--Moral and ethical aspects--United States.
- Criminal justice, Administration of.
- Discrimination in criminal justice administration--United States.
- Discrimination in criminal justice administration.
- Criminal justice, Administration of--Moral and ethical aspects.
- United States.
- Discrimination in capital punishment--United States.
- Discrimination in capital punishment.
- African American criminals.
- United States--Race relations.
- Race relations.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xiv, 631 pages) : illustrations
- Place of Publication:
- Santa Barbara, California : Greenwood, [2014]
- System Details:
- text file
- Summary:
- Does justice exist for Blacks in America? This comprehensive compilation of essays documents the historical and contemporary impact of the law and criminal justice system on people of African ancestry in the United States.
- Contents:
- Abu-Jamal, Mumia
- Adams, the Honorable Eric L.
- African diaspora, crime, and justice
- Alternative sentencing
- American Law and African Americans
- Barry, J. Marion S.
- Bell, Sean
- Black Panther Party
- Black protectionism
- Brown, H. Rap (aka Jamil Abdullah Al-Amin)
- Brown, James Joseph
- Bumpurs, Elanor
- Byrd, Jr., James
- Carmichael, Stokely
- Citizenship
- Civil Rights Movement
- Cochran, Jr., Johnnie L.
- Code of the Street
- Community-based crime and reentry theory
- Conyers, Jr. John
- Correctional system and African Americans
- Criminal deportation
- Critical race theory
- Dahmer, Jeffrey Lionel
- Dating violence (H.R. 789)
- Davis, Angela Yvonne
- Davis, Larry
- Davis, Troy Anthony
- D.C. Snipers
- Death penalty
- Diallo, Amadou
- Disproportionality and crime
- DNA testing
- Domestic violence and African American families
- Dorismond, Patrick
- Drug treatment strategies
- Du Bois, W.E.B.
- Dutton, Charles Stanley
- Early intervention for African Americans
- Education
- Environmental justice
- Eugenics
- Evers, Medgar
- Eyewitness misidentification
- Fair Sentencing Act of 201
- Faith-based prisoner reentry
- False confessions
- Federal Death Penalty Abolition Act of 2009 (S. 650)
- Federal sentencing disparity
- Ferguson, Colin
- Francois, Kendall
- Gangs
- Gates, Jr., Henry Louis
- Grant, Oscar
- Habitual Offender Laws
- Hate crimes
- Healing communities
- Hip-Hop culture
- Homicide
- Hurricane Katrina
- Inequality theory
- Innocence Project
- Institutional racism
- Institutional racism : a United Kingdom perspective
- Inter-racial offending
- Intra-racial offending
- Jackson, Jesse
- Jefferson, the Honorable William Jennings
- Jena Six
- Jones, Jr., Prince Carmen
- Juries
- King, Rodney Glen
- Lee, Anthony Dwain/Dwayne
- Legal representation
- Legal socialization and race
- Los Angeles riots of 1992
- Louima, Abner
- Lynching
- Malcolm X (aka El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz)
- Mapp, Dollree
- Martin, Trayvon
- Mitchell, Margaret Laverne
- Nation of Islam
- 100 Blacks in law enforcement who care
- Organized crime
- Petit apartheid
- Police brutality
- Price, Craig
- Prisoner reentry and African Americans
- Prisoner reentry models : a focus on Arkansas
- Prisons
- Public housing
- Racial hoaxes and media representations
- Racial profiling
- Racial stereotyping and wrongful convictions
- Robeson, Paul
- Rockefeller Drug Laws : policy review
- Ross, Ricky "Freeway"
- Ross, Robert
- Scottsboro cases
- Sentencing disparities
- Sex crimes and race
- Shakur, Assata (aka Joanne Chesimard)
- Shakur, Tupac Amaru
- Sharpton, Jr., Alfred Charles
- Simpson, Orenthal James "O.J."
- Slavery
- Snitching, the miseducation of
- Socioeconomic factors
- Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC)
- Stop Snitching Campaign
- Streetwise Project
- Structural racism and violence
- Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC)
- Termination of parental rights
- Theories of race and crime
- Three Strikes Legislation
- Till, Emmett
- War on Drugs
- Wells-Barnett, Ida B.
- When work disappears : the world of the new urban poor
- White, Walter Francis
- Williams, Wayne
- Wolfgang, Marvin
- Wrongful convictions
- Young, Jr. Cornel
- Youth violence
- Zebratown
- Zongo, Ousmane.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Electronic reproduction. Farmington Hills, Mich. Available via World Wide Web.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9780313357176
- 031335717X
- Publisher Number:
- 99990103163
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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