Publication

2010 - Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, England

Language

English

Word Count

48,000 words, Guess

Page Count

192 pages

Identifiers

  • ISBN-100521767792
  • ISBN-139780521767798
  • ISBN-139780521743815
  • ISBN-100521743818
  • Library of Congress Control Number2010038007
and 4 more
  • OCLC Control Number656771872
  • Better World Books9780521743815
  • Better World Books9780521767798
  • Open LibraryOL24495343M

Classifications

  • DDC364.089/96073
  • LCCHV9950 .M55 2010
  • LCCHV9950
and 1 more
  • LCCHV9950 .M55 2011

Description

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

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