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Social Inequality, Criminal Justice, and Race in Tennessee - 1960-2014 (Hardcover)
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Social Inequality, Criminal Justice, and Race in Tennessee - 1960-2014 (Hardcover)
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This book examines the national criminal justice system's and the
state of Tennessee criminal justice system's policies in terms of
how they balance the citizens' need for prisons with the private
sector's desire for profits and the policies' effects on the
incarceration rate of African American males in the state of
Tennessee. There are important, often neglected, connections among
prison sentencing, felony disenfranchisement, voting, and the
continuing problematic issues of race in America, particularly in
Tennessee. This state serves as a representative case study from
which to examine local, state, and national criminal justice
systems, disparate outcomes, and social inequality. The book
therefore investigates ethically questionable public-private
business relationships and arrangements that contribute to
socially-constructed economic policy instruments used to fulfill
conservatives and white supremacists' objectives for white
domination in Tennessee. Through mass incarceration and felony
disenfranchisement, African Americans-in particular, African
American males-have been discriminated against and systematically
excluded from political participation, employment, housing,
education, and other social programs. This book is grounded on the
Racial Contract Theory and Racial Group Threat Theory (Racial
Threat Theory or Group Threat Theory). The Racial Contract Theory
is used to show how racism itself is an intentionally devised,
institutionalized, political arrangement of official and unofficial
rule, of official and unofficial policy, socioeconomic benefit, and
norms for the preferential distribution of material wealth and
opportunities. The Racial Group Threat Theory is employed to
demonstrate how growth in the comparative size of a subordinate
group increases that group's capacity to use democratic political
and economic institutions for its benefit at the expense of the
dominant group.
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