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Racial Issues in Criminal Justice: The Case of African Americans
Marvin D. Free, Jr., ed.
(Paperback)
2004, 283 pages
ISBN: 1-881798-55-0
$36.50

"It promises to stimulate a great deal of critical analysis and debate in the classroom, and I would highly recommend it as either a primary text...or a supplementary text...I also believe it could be used in both undergraduate and graduate courses." Debra S. Emmelman, Law and Politics Book Review (March 2005).

"Overall, 'Racial Issues in Criminal Justice:...'provides a good starting point for a discourse on the topic of racism in the criminal justice system in the United States. The book effectively illustrates the plight of African Americans caught in the criminal 'in'-justice system." Alice H.J.D. Choi, Critical Criminology (2006).

. This reader analyzes the origins and effects of disproportionate incarceration and criminal justice system involvement of African Americans in the U.S.

The 14 chapter topics include: racial profiling; "driving while black" policies; race and pre-sentencing decisions; bias in trying juveniles as adults; the racist application of capital punishment; do African-American police make a difference?; racial fairness in jury selection; minorities and restorative justice; the myth of black juror nullification; and others.

Contributors include: David V. Baker, Bryan D. Byers, Robert Conners, Robert Engvall, Sarah Eschholz, Hiroshi Fukurai, Helen Taylor Greene, Michael A. Hallett, Elissa Krauss, Michael J. Lynch, Katheryn K. Russell and Becky Tatum, among others.

Marvin D. Free, Jr. is an associate professor of sociology at the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater. "Any serious student of race and crime should take time to read this important collection." Prof. Shaun Gabbidon, Pennsylvania State University.

"Over all,'Racial Issues in Criminal Justice...' provides a good starting point for a discourse on the topic of racism in the criminal justice system in the United States." Alice H.J.D. Choi, "Critical Criminology" (14: 107-112)

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