Race and crime: geographies of injustice / Elizabeth Brown, George Barganier.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Brown, Elizabeth, Author.

Barganier, George, Author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Racism in criminology--United States.

Criminal justice, Administration of--United States.

Imprisonment--United States.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (441 pages)

Place of Publication:

Berkeley, CA : University of California Press, [2018]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

Criminal justice practices such as policing and imprisonment are integral to the creation of racialized experiences in U.S. society. Race as an important category of difference, however, did not arise here with the criminal justice system but rather with the advent of European colonial conquest and the birth of the U.S. racial state. Race and Crime examines how race became a defining feature of the system and why mass incarceration emerged as a new racial management strategy. This book reviews the history of race and criminology and explores the impact of racist colonial legacies on the organization of criminal justice institutions. Using a macrostructural perspective, students will learn to contextualize issues of race, crime, and criminal justice. Topics include:How "coloniality" explains the practices that reproduce racial hierarchiesThe birth of social science and social programs from the legacies of racial scienceThe defining role of geography and geographical conquest in the continuation of mass incarcerationThe emergence of the logics of crime control, the War on Drugs, the redefinition of federal law enforcement, and the reallocation of state resources toward prison building, policing, and incarcerationHow policing, courts, and punishment perpetuate the colonial order through their institutional structures and policies Race and Crime will help students understand how everyday practices of punishment and surveillance are employed in and through the police, courts, and community to create and shape the geographies of injustice in the United States today.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Illustrations

Preface

1. Race, Crime, and Justice: Definitions and Context

2. Race, Colonialism, and the Emergence of Racial Democracy

3. The History of Racial Science: Social Science and the Birth of Criminology

4. Social Problems and the U.S. Racial State

5. Housing Inequality and the Geography of Residential Racial Segregation

6. The Problem of Urban America: Race and the Emergence of Mass Incarceration

7. Policing the City

8. The Colonial Order of the Court

9. Imprisoning Race: From Slavery to the Prison

10. "Race to Execution": Lynching, Mass Incarceration, and the Resurgence of the Death Penalty

11. Conclusion: Futures of Race and Crime?

Index

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 21. Dez 2019)

ISBN:

9780520967403

0520967402

OCLC:

1031049511