Punishing race : a continuing American dilemma / Michael Tonry.

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Tonry, Michael H

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text

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computer

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online resource

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9780199974184
0199974187

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Punishing race.DDC classification:

364.973089 23

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HV9950

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A continuing American dilemma -- Imprisonment -- Drugs -- Race, bias, and politics -- Ideology, moralism, and government -- Doing less harm.

Summary: How can it be, in a nation that elected Barack Obama, that one third of African American males born in 2001 will spend time in a state or federal prison, and that black men are seven times likelier than white men to be in prison? Blacks are much more likely than whites to be stopped by the police, arrested, prosecuted, convicted, and imprisoned, and are much less likely to have confidence in justice system officials, especially the police. In Punishing Race, Michael Tonry demonstrates in lucid, accessible language that these patterns result not from racial differences in crime or drug use but p.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

A continuing American dilemma -- Imprisonment -- Drugs -- Race, bias, and politics -- Ideology, moralism, and government -- Doing less harm.

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How can it be, in a nation that elected Barack Obama, that one third of African American males born in 2001 will spend time in a state or federal prison, and that black men are seven times likelier than white men to be in prison? Blacks are much more likely than whites to be stopped by the police, arrested, prosecuted, convicted, and imprisoned, and are much less likely to have confidence in justice system officials, especially the police. In Punishing Race, Michael Tonry demonstrates in lucid, accessible language that these patterns result not from racial differences in crime or drug use but p.

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