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Punishing Race - A Continuing American Dilemma (Hardcover)
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Punishing Race - A Continuing American Dilemma (Hardcover)
Series: Studies in Crime and Public Policy
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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 primarily from drug and crime control
policies that disproportionately affect black Americans. These
policies in turn stem from a lack of white empathy for black
people, and from racial stereotypes and resentments provoked partly
by the Republican Southern Strategy of using coded "law and order"
appeals to race to gain support from white voters. White Americans,
Tonry observes, have a remarkable capacity to endure the suffering
of disadvantaged black and, increasingly, Hispanic men. Crime
policies are among a set of social policies enacted since the 1960s
that have maintained white dominance over black people despite the
end of legal discrimination. To redress these injustices, Tonry
offers a number of proposals: stop racial profiling by the police,
shift the emphasis of drug law enforcement to treatment and
prevention, eliminate mandatory sentencing laws, and change
sentencing guidelines to allow judges discretion to take account of
offenders' life circumstances. Those proposals are all attainable
and would all reduce unjustifiable racial disparities and the
collateral human and social harms they cause.
A damning indictment of decades of misguided criminal justice
policy, Punishing Race takes a crucial look at persisting racial
injustice in America.
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