Racial divide
Subtitle: racial and ethnic bias in the criminal justice system
By: edited by Michael J. Lynch, E. Britt Patterson and Kristina K. Childs
Publisher: Criminal Justice Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Monsey, N.Y
Language: eng
Number of pages: 301
ISBN-13: 9781881798866
Subjects: Administration of Criminal justice; Race relations; Race discrimination; Discrimination in criminal justice administration
Other titles: Racial and ethnic bias in the criminal justice system
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 263-301).
Table of contents: title: About the authors --; title: Racial divide : the context of racial and ethnic bias in criminal justice processes  -- Michael J. Lynch, E. Britt Patterson and Kristina K. Childs; title: Theories of racial and ethnic bias in juvenile and criminal justice  -- Michael J. Leiber; title: Racially biased policing : the law enforcement response to the implicit black-crime association  -- Lorie A. Fridell; title: Perceptions of bias-based policing : implications for police policy and practice  -- Brian N. Williams and Billy R. Close; title: Race, ethnicity and sentencing  -- Amy Farrell and Donna M. Bishop; title: Race, drugs and juvenile court processing  -- E. Britt Patterson; title: The racial divide in U.S. prisons : an examination of racial and ethnic disparity in imprisonment  -- Michael J. Lynch; title: Racial bias and the death penalty  -- Judith Kavaugh-Earl ... [et al.]; title: Profiling white Americans : a research note on "shopping while white"  -- Shaun L. Gabbidon and George E. Higgins; title: The things that pass for knowledge : racial identity in forensics  -- Tom Mieczkowski; title: The neglect of race and class in environmental crime research  -- Paul Stretesky; title: Court cases cited.