Studies in Crime and Public Policy : Punishing Race: a Continuing American Dilemma.

By: Tonry, MichaelMaterial type: TextTextSeries: Studies in Crime and Public Policy SerPublisher: Cary : Oxford University Press, Incorporated, 2012Copyright date: ©2011Description: 1 online resource (221 pages)Content type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9780199974184Subject(s): Crime and race -- United States | Criminal justice, Administration of -- United States | Discrimination in criminal justice administration -- United StatesGenre/Form: Electronic books.Additional physical formats: Print version:: Studies in Crime and Public Policy : Punishing Race: a Continuing American DilemmaDDC classification: 364.973089 LOC classification: HV9950 -- .T667 2011ebOnline resources: Click to View
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Cover -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- 1: A Continuing American Dilemma -- 2: Imprisonment -- 3: Drugs -- 4: Race, Bias, and Politics -- 5: Ideology, Moralism, and Government -- 6: Doing Less Harm -- Notes -- References -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W.
Summary: Punishing Race addresses enduring paradoxes of racial disparities in America and the problems of race in the criminal justice system. The white majority, Tonry observes, has a remarkable capacity to endure the suffering of disadvantaged black and, increasingly, Hispanic men. The criminal justice system is the latest in a series of devices, including slavery, Jim Crow, and legally countenanced discrimination, that have maintained white dominance over black people. Setting out a new agenda, Tonry pushes for overdue--and realistic--changes in racial profiling and sentencing, and to the War on Drugs, to reduce their staggering human and social costs.
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Cover -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- 1: A Continuing American Dilemma -- 2: Imprisonment -- 3: Drugs -- 4: Race, Bias, and Politics -- 5: Ideology, Moralism, and Government -- 6: Doing Less Harm -- Notes -- References -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W.

Punishing Race addresses enduring paradoxes of racial disparities in America and the problems of race in the criminal justice system. The white majority, Tonry observes, has a remarkable capacity to endure the suffering of disadvantaged black and, increasingly, Hispanic men. The criminal justice system is the latest in a series of devices, including slavery, Jim Crow, and legally countenanced discrimination, that have maintained white dominance over black people. Setting out a new agenda, Tonry pushes for overdue--and realistic--changes in racial profiling and sentencing, and to the War on Drugs, to reduce their staggering human and social costs.

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