Justice with prejudice : race and criminal justice in America / edited by Michael J. Lynch and E. Britt Patterson.

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Lynch, Michael J.
Patterson, E. Britt
Language:English
Published: Guilderland, N.Y. : Harrow and Heston, [1996], ©1996.
Subjects:
Discrimination in criminal justice administration > United States.
Sex discrimination in criminal justice administration > United States.
Race discrimination > United States.
United States > Race relations.
Physical Description:x, 195 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Thinking about race and criminal justice / Michael J. Lynch and E. Britt Patterson
  • Moral panic as idealogy: drugs, violence, race and punishment in America / Theodore Chiricos
  • The "tangle of pathology" and the lower class African-American family: historical and social science perspectives / Frankie Y. Bailey
  • The image of black women in criminology: historical stereotypes as theoretical foundation / Jacklyn Huey and Michael J. Lynch
  • Race, popular culture and the news / Lenny Krzycki
  • Vice and social control: predispositional detention and the juvenile drug offender / E. Britt Patterson and Laura Davidson Patterson
  • Race, contextual factors, and the waiver decision within juvenile court proceedings: preliminary findings from a test of the symbolic threat thesis / Michael J. Leiber, E. Michele Roudebush and Anne C. Woodrick
  • Race and criminal justice: employment of minorities in the criminal justice system / Mahesh K. Nalla and Charles Corley
  • Race and social class in the examination of punishment / Michael Welch.