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9780521598583

Search and Destroy : African-American Males in the Criminal Justice System

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  • ISBN13:

    9780521598583

  • ISBN10:

    0521598583

  • Edition: Reprint
  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 1997-06-28
  • Publisher: Cambridge University Press

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Summary

The war on drugs has created an explosion in the American prison population, with the number of prison inmates now threatening to exceed the number of students attending college. In this wide-ranging survey, Jerome Miller describes the racial bias which exists against African-American males between the ages of 18 and 35 in virtually all aspects of the American criminal justice system. 12 diagrams.

Table of Contents

Introduction
1. Is it the violent crime?
2. Tracking racial bias
3. Unanticipated consequences of the justice system
4. The politics of crime
5. Race, 'Applied Science' and public policy: the case of the criminaloid
6. The future: from managerial efficiency to biological necessity.

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