Search and destroy
Subtitle: African-American males in the criminal justice system
By: Jerome Miller
Edition: 2nd ed.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Cambridge; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 192
ISBN-13: 9780521767798; 9780521743815
Description: "This book addresses widespread social assumptions associating crime and the imprisonment of African American men"--

"This tightly argued and methodologically sound volume addresses widespread social assumptions associating crime and African-American men. An exploration of the criminal justice system in America today and its impact on young African-American males, this book challenges the linking of crime and race and the conservative anti-welfare, hard-oncrime agenda. Jerry Miller has spent a lifetime studying and challenging our criminal justice system. He has worked to make it more progressive and more just. He has watched as it turned into a system of segregation and control for many Americans of color. That is the story told here in condemning devastating detail"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: 1. Prologue: from which aristocratic colours peep; 2. Thescope of the problem; 3. Hyping violence; 4. Unanticipated consequences; 5. Race baiting and kitsch; 6. The search for the criminaloid; 7. Banishing indecision; 7. Epilogue.