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The system in black and white : exploring the connections between race, crime, and justice
Title:
The system in black and white : exploring the connections between race, crime, and justice
Author:
Markowitz, Michael W., 1959-
Publication Information:
Westport, Conn. : Praeger, [2000]

©2000
Physical Description:
xv, 294 pages ; 24 cm
Language:
English
Contents:
Theoretical explanations of the nexus between race and crime / Michael W. Markowitz -- The alchemy of race and crime research / Paul Knepper -- Deconstructing the association of race and crime: the salience of skin color / Becky L. Tatum -- The empirical status of the Black-subculture-of-violence thesis / Liqun Cao, Anthony Troy Adams, and Vickie J. Jensen -- Determinants of Black-to-white arrest differentials: a review of the literature / Steven R. Cureton -- Understanding the connections between race and police violence / Helen Taylor Greene -- The King-Denney tapes: their analysis and implications for police use of force training / H. Bruce Pierce -- The self-fulfilling prophecy of police profiles / Scott L. Johnson -- Conceptual incarceration: a Thirteenth-Amendment look at African Americans and policing / Ramona Brockett -- Black and white perceptions of the appropriateness of police conduct / Daniel Kolodziejski ... [et al.] -- Race as a legal construct: the implications for American justice / Delores D. Jones-Brown -- The impact of racial demography on jury verdicts in routine adjudication / James P. Levine -- Race and ethnic bias in sentencing decisions: a review and critique of the literature / Darren E. Warner -- Media images and the victimization of Black women: exploring the impact of sexual stereotyping on prosecutorial decision making / Norma Manatu-Rupert -- The significance of race in the use of restitution / Evelyn Gilbert -- Diversity in a jail work setting: evaluating the impact of racial intolerance / Annette M. Girondi and Michael W. Markowitz -- Overrepresentation of minority youth in the juvenile justice system: discrimination or disproportionality of delinquent acts? / Janice Joseph -- Substance abuse and race in a delinquent population / Philip W. Harris, Peter R. Jones, and Jamie J. Fader -- Prisons as "safe havens" for African-American women / Zelma Weston-Henriques and Delores D. Jones-Brown.
Reading Level:
1440 Lexile.
ISBN:
9780275959746
Format :
Book