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Presumed Criminal - Black Youth and the Justice System in Postwar New York (Paperback)
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Presumed Criminal - Black Youth and the Justice System in Postwar New York (Paperback)
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A startling examination of the deliberate criminalization of black
youths from the 1930s to today A stark disparity exists between
black and white youth experiences in the justice system today.
Black youths are perceived to be older and less innocent than their
white peers. When it comes to incarceration, race trumps class, and
even as black youths articulate their own experiences with carceral
authorities, many Americans remain surprised by the inequalities
they continue to endure. In this revealing book, Carl Suddler
brings to light a much longer history of the policies and
strategies that tethered the lives of black youths to the justice
system indefinitely. The criminalization of black youth is
inseparable from its racialized origins. In the mid-twentieth
century, the United States justice system began to focus on
punishment, rather than rehabilitation. By the time the federal
government began to address the issue of juvenile delinquency, the
juvenile justice system shifted its priorities from saving
delinquent youth to purely controlling crime, and black teens bore
the brunt of the transition. In New York City, increased state
surveillance of predominantly black communities compounded arrest
rates during the post–World War II period, providing
justification for tough-on-crime policies. Questionable police
practices, like stop-and-frisk, combined with media sensationalism,
cemented the belief that black youth were the primary cause for
concern. Even before the War on Crime, the stakes were clear: race
would continue to be the crucial determinant in American notions of
crime and delinquency, and black youths condemned with a stigma of
criminality would continue to confront the overwhelming power of
the state.
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