Punishing Race : A Continuing American Dilemma
ISBN: 9780199751372 | 0199751374
Format: HardcoverPublisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Pub. Date: 2/17/2011
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How can it be in a nation that elected Barack Obama that a third of young black men are controlled by the justice system, and black men are seven times likelier than white to be in prison? Michael Tonry demonstrates in lucid, accessible language that these patterns result primarily from drug and crime control policies that disproportionately affect black Americans. These policies in turn result from a lack of white empathy for black people and from racial stereotypes and resentments provoked partly by the Republican Southern Strategy of appeali... MORE
| Preface | p. vii |
| Acknowledgments | p. xiii |
| A Continuing American Dilemma | p. 1 |
| Imprisonment | p. 26 |
| Drugs | p. 53 |
| Race, Bias, and Politics | p. 77 |
| Ideology, Moralism, and Government | p. 115 |
| Doing Less Harm | p. 144 |
| Notes | p. 175 |
| References | p. 179 |
| Index | p. 199 |
| Table of Conten... MORE |
Michael Tonry is Professor of Law and Public Policy at the University of Minnesota Law School, and Senior Fellow at the Netherlands Institute for the Study of Crime and Law Enforcement at Free University in Amsterdam.
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