The Political Roots of Racial Tracking in American Criminal Justice
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| Rating | : | 4.50 (982 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1107654882 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 406 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-10-01 |
| Language | : | English |
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Five Stars C. W. Spinks great book
Her research, teaching, and writing focus on racial inequality, public policy, and governance processes. . Nina M. Moore was appointed by Governor David Patterson to a four-year term on the New York State Commission on Judicial Conduct (2009-13) and by the New York state senate to the Advisory Council on Underage Alcohol Consumption and Youth Substance Abuse (2010-present).
Nina Moore compellingly explains how and why that has happened." Michael Tonry, McKnight Presidential Professor in Criminal Law and Policy, University of Minnesota"Imagine Richard Wright as an academic writing Native Son - full of statistics and theories - but at heart always returning to a murder. The problems are neither unknown nor insoluble but go unacknowledged and unaddressed in mainstream American politics. This detailed account argues that we must challenge punitive public attitudes and legislative shortsightedness, as well as actors within the criminal-justice
The race problem in the American criminal justice system persists because we enable it. Black as well as white voters, Democrat as much as Republican lawmakers, President Obama as much as Reagan, both Congress and the Supreme Court alike; all are implicated. The Political Roots of Racial Tracking in American Criminal Justice is the story of how the race problem in criminal justice is continually enabled in the national crime policy process, and why.. The tendency of liberals to point a finger at law enforcement, racial conservatives, the War on Drugs, is misguided. We all are 'The Man'. Whether the problem is defined in terms of blacks' overrepresentation in prisons or in terms of the disproportional use of deadly police force against blacks, not enough of us demand that something be done