Malign Neglect Race, Crime, and Punishment in America

by Tonry, Michael

• ISBN13: 9780195077209
• ISBN10: 0195077202
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1995-01-19
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

From the acclaimed author of Between Prison and Probation comes a blistering attack on this nation's worn-out misconceptions about race, poverty, crime, and punishment, and a fearless prescription for change--a powerful book that provides devastating statistics on the human costs of our current criminal policies.

Author Biography

About the Author:
Michael Tonry is Sonosky Professor of Law and Public Policy at the University of Minnesota. He is the co-author of Between Prison and Probation, with Norval Morris, editor of the leading journal Crime and Justice--A Review of Research, and General Editor, with Morris, of the Oxford University Press series Studies in Crime and Public Policy.

Table of Contents

Malign Neglect	p. 3
Crime and Social Welfare	p. 7
Policy and Mendacity	p. 12
The Burden on Black Americans	p. 28
Justifying the Unjustifiable	p. 31
Doing Less Harm	p. 39
Racial Disproportion in the Criminal Justice System	p. 49
Black Offenders, Black Prisoners	p. 52
Patterns of Crime Participation	p. 56
Race and the War on Drugs	p. 81
Why the War Should Not Have Been Declared	p. 83
The Foreseeable Disparate Impact on Blacks	p. 104
The Case for the War	p. 116
Social Adversity and the Criminal Law	p. 125
Offending Patterns by Race	p. 128
A Social Adversity Defense?	p. 134
Social Adversity and Punishment	p. 149
The Illusion of "Like-Situated" Offenders	p. 154
An Unjust Society	p. 158
Sorting out Principles	p. 160
Social Adversity and Sentencing Policy	p. 163
Invidious Sentences	p. 170
Crime Control	p. 173
Political Honesty	p. 179
What Is to Be Done?	p. 181
Thinking About Race	p. 182
Individualizing Punishments	p. 190
Revivifying Treatment	p. 201
Doing Justice	p. 207
References	p. 211
Index	p. 229
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