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Search and Destroy : African-American Males in the Criminal Justice System / Jerome G. Miller.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2010Edition: 2nd edDescription: 1 online resource (212 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780511975042 (ebook)
Other title:
  • Search & Destroy
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: Print version: : No titleDDC classification:
  • 364.089/96073 22
LOC classification:
  • HV9950 .M55 2011
Online resources: Summary: This tightly argued and methodologically sound volume addresses widespread social assumptions associating crime and African-American men. An exploration into 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-on-crime 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 devastating detail.
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This tightly argued and methodologically sound volume addresses widespread social assumptions associating crime and African-American men. An exploration into 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-on-crime 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 devastating detail.

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