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The system in black and white : exploring the connections between race, crime, and justice

Author: Michael W Markowitz; Delores D Jones-Brown
Publisher: Westport, Conn. : Praeger, 2000.
Edition/Format:   Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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Analyzes in a timely and compelling way the nexus between race, crime, and justice.
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Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Michael W Markowitz; Delores D Jones-Brown
ISBN: 0275959740 9780275959746 0275975428 9780275975425
OCLC Number: 40444527
Description: xv, 294 p. ; 24 cm.
Contents: Theoretical explanations of the nexus between race and crime / Michael W. Markowitz --
The Alchemy of race and crime research / Paul Knepper --
Deconstructing the association of race and crime : the salience of skin color / Becky L. Tatum --
The Empirical status of the Black-subculture-of-violence thesis / Liqun Cao, Anthony Troy Adams, Vickie J. Jensen --
Determinants of Black-to-white arrest differentials : a review of the literature / Steven R. Cureton --
Understanding the connections between race and police violence / Helen Taylor Greene --
The King-Denney tapes : their analysis and implications for police use of force training / H. Bruce Pierce --
The Self-fulfilling prophecy of police profiles / Scott L. Johnson --
Conceptual incarceration : a Thirteenth-Amendment look at African Americans and policing / Ramona Brockett --
Black and white perceptions of the appropriateness of police conduct / Daniel Kolodziejski ... [et al.] --
Race as a legal construct : the implications for American justice / Delores D. Jones-Brown --
The Impact of racial demography on jury verdicts in routine adjudication / James P. Levine --
Race and ethnic bias in sentencing decisions : a review and critique of the literature / Darren E. Warner --
Media images and the victimization of Black women : exploring the impact of sexual stereotyping on prosecutorial decision making / Norma Manatu-Rupert --
The Significance of race in the use of restitution / Evelyn Gilbert --
Diversity in a jail work setting : evaluating the impact of racial intolerance / Annette M. Girondi, Michael W. Markowitz --
Overrepresentation of minority youth in the juvenile justice system : discrimination or disproportionality of delinquent acts? / Janice Joseph --
Substance abuse and race in a delinquent population / Philip W. Harris, Peter R. Jones, Jamie J. Fader --
Prisons as "safe havens" for African-American women / Zelma Weston-Henriques, Delores D. Jones-Brown.
Responsibility: edited by Michael W. Markowitz and Delores D. Jones-Brown.

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Analyzes in a timely and compelling way the nexus between race, crime, and justice.

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