The system in black and white
Subtitle: exploring the connections between race, crime, and justice
By: edited by Michael W. Markowitz and Delores D. Jones-Brown
Contributors: Markowitz, Michael W., 1959-; Jones-Brown, Delores D
Publisher: Praeger
Published: 2000
Place of publication: Westport, Conn
Language: eng
Number of pages: 294
Subjects: Crime and race -- United States; Discrimination in criminal justice administration -- United States
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index
Table of contents: title: Theoretical explanations of the nexus between race and crime / Michael W. Markowitz; title: The alchemy of race and crime research / Paul Knepper; title: Deconstructing the association of race and crime: the salience of skin color / Becky L. Tatum; title: The empirical status of the Black-subculture-of-violence thesis / Liqun Cao, Anthony Troy Adams, and Vickie J. Jensen; title: Determinants of Black-to-white arrest differentials: a review of the literature / Steven R. Cureton; title: Understanding the connections between race and police violence / Helen Taylor Greene; title: The King-Denney tapes: their analysis and implications for police use of force training / H. Bruce Pierce; title: The self-fulfilling prophecy of police profiles / Scott L. Johnson; title: Conceptual incarceration: a Thirteenth-Amendment look at African Americans and policing / Ramona Brockett; title: Black and white perceptions of the appropriateness of police conduct / Daniel Kolodziejski ... [et al.]; title: Race as a legal construct: the implications for American justice / Delores D. Jones-Brown; title: The impact of racial demography on jury verdicts in routine adjudication / James P. Levine; title: Race and ethnic bias in sentencing decisions: a review and critique of the literature / Darren E. Warner; title: Media images and the victimization of Black women: exploring the impact of sexual stereotyping on prosecutorial decision making / Norma Manatu-Rupert; title: The significance of race in the use of restitution / Evelyn Gilbert; title: Diversity in a jail work setting: evaluating the impact of racial intolerance / Annette M. Girondi and Michael W. Markowitz; title: Overrepresentation of minority youth in the juvenile justice system: discrimination or disproportionality of delinquent acts? / Janice Joseph; title: Substance abuse and race in a delinquent population / Philip W. Harris, Peter R. Jones, and Jamie J. Fader; title: Prisons as "safe havens" for African-American women / Zelma Weston-Henriques and Delores D. Jones-Brown