The Color of Crime - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Color of Crime write by Katheryn Russell-Brown. This book was released on 2009. The Color of Crime available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "Perhaps the most explosive and troublesome phenomenon at the nexus of race and crime is the racial hoax - a contemporary version of The Boy Who Cried Wolf. Examining both White-on-Black hoaxes such as Susan Smith's and Charles Stuart's claims that Black men were responsible for crimes they themselves committed, and Black-on-White hoaxes such as the Tawana Brawley episode, Russell illustrates the formidable and lasting damage that occurs when racial stereotypes are manipulated and exploited for personal advantage. She shows us how such hoaxes have disastrous consequences and argues for harsher punishments for offenders."--BOOK JACKET.
The Color of Crime
The Color of Crime - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Color of Crime write by Katheryn Russell-Brown. This book was released on 1999-09. The Color of Crime available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. As if crime and race in the US were not volatile enough issues independently, there is their explosive interface. This is the territory staked out by Russell (criminology and criminal justice, U. of Maryland), who probes racial stereotypes (some perpetuated by "scientific racism"), the hoaxes they have spawned, differing views of police actions by race, and affirmative race law. A public-police contact survey and case summaries of recent racial hoaxes are appended. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Images of Color, Images of Crime
Images of Color, Images of Crime - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Images of Color, Images of Crime write by Coramae Richey Mann. This book was released on 2006. Images of Color, Images of Crime available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This edited volume explores the dynamics of race, crime, and the criminal justice system in the United States today. The book gives equal attention to the links between images of color and images of crime as well as the ramifications of criminal justice policies and practices. Changes to the new edition include the following: * Revised introductory and concluding chapters that more clearly outline the focus and selection of the racial and ethnic groups discussed. * The book further examines the ways in which gender, religion, culture, sexuality, and sexual orientation are central components of racialized constructions. * A new chapter provides examples of current criminal justice practices and crime control policies on racial and ethnic groups, including law enforcement policies, prosecution and sentencing, and imprisonment. * Brief, framing introductions underscore why each chapter is important and how it fits into the book's overarching themes. * Each chapter includes discussion questions and a list of relevant websites. * An accompanying Instructor's Manual prepared by David R. Montague is new to the Third Edition.
A Sociology of Crime
A Sociology of Crime - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A Sociology of Crime write by Peter Eglin. This book was released on 2015-09-04. A Sociology of Crime available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The authors take three particular sociological perspectives, and use them to offer a distinct and critical reading of criminology, highlighting the ways that crime is, first and foremost, a matter of social definition. They provide a good introductory text which will be of great value to students.
Race, Crime, and the Law
Race, Crime, and the Law - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Race, Crime, and the Law write by Randall Kennedy. This book was released on 2012-02-22. Race, Crime, and the Law available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. An "admirable, courageous, and meticulously fair and honest book” (New York Times Book Review) in which “one of our most important and perceptive writers on race" (The Washington Post) takes on a highly complex issue in a way that no one has before. "This book should be a standard for all law students."—Boston Globe In this groundbreaking, powerfully reasoned, lucid work that is certain to provoke controversy, Harvard law professor Randall Kennedy takes on a highly complex issue in a way that no one has before. Kennedy uncovers the long-standing failure of the justice system to protect blacks from criminals, probing allegations that blacks are victimized on a widespread basis by racially discriminatory prosecutions and punishments, but he also engages the debate over the wisdom and legality of using racial criteria in jury selection. He analyzes the responses of the legal system to accusations that appeals to racial prejudice have rendered trials unfair, and examines the idea that, under certain circumstances, members of one race are statistically more likely to be involved in crime than members of another.
