Color of justice : race, ethnicity, and crime in America / Samuel Walker, Cassia Spohn, Miriam DeLone.

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From the publisher. Comprehensive and balanced, The Color of Justice is the definitive book on current research and theories of racial and ethnic discrimination within America's Criminal Justice system. The best and the most recent research on patterns of criminal behavior and victimization, police...

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Main Authors: Walker, Samuel, 1942-, Spohn, Cassia, (Cassia Cathleen) (Author), DeLone, Miriam (Author)
Language:English
Published: Belmont, CA : Wadsworth Publishing Co., 2012.
Edition:[Fifth edition].
Series:Contemporary issues in crime and justice series.
Subjects:
Discrimination in criminal justice administration > United States.
Race discrimination > United States.
Ethnicity > United States.
Social structure > United States.
Minorities > Crimes against > United States.
Police misconduct > United States.
United States > Race relations.
United States > Social conditions.
Physical Description:xix, 537 pages : illustrations, tables ; 24 cm.
Format: Book
Contents:
  • 1. Race, ethnicity, and crime : the present crisis
  • In discrimination just a myth?
  • The scope of this book
  • Objectives of the book
  • The colors of America : racial and ethnic categories
  • The geography of racial and ethnic justice
  • Disparity versus discrimination
  • A theoretical perspective on race, ethnicity, and crime
  • 2. Victims and offenders : myths and realities about crime
  • Media and crime
  • A broader picture of the crime victim
  • Picture of the typical offender
  • Crime as an intraracial event
  • Crime as an interracial (hate) event
  • Ethnic youth gangs
  • 3. Race, ethnicity, social structure, and crime
  • A snapshot of social inequality and criminal justice
  • Inequality and crime
  • Economic inequality
  • Community social structure
  • Theoretical perspectives on inequality and crime
  • Inequality and social reform
  • 4. Justice on the street? : the police and racial and ethnic minorities
  • Unequal justice?
  • A contextual approach
  • A long history of conflict
  • The police and a changing America
  • Public attitudes about the police
  • Policing racial and ethnic minority communities
  • Police use of deadly force
  • "Police brutality" : police use of physical force
  • Discrimination in arrests?
  • Traffic stops : racial profiling
  • Street stops and frisks
  • Verbal abuse
  • Police officer attitudes and behavior
  • Police corruption and people of color
  • Police-community relations programs
  • Citizen complaints against the police
  • Citizen oversight of the police
  • Police employment practices
  • 5. The courts : a quest for justice during the pretrial process
  • African Americans in court : the case of the Scottsboro boys
  • The situation today
  • Decisions regarding counsel and bail
  • Charging and plea bargaining decisions
  • 6. Justice on the bench? : trial and adjudication in criminal court
  • Race/ethnicity and the criminal trial
  • Selection of the jury pool
  • The peremptory challenge : racial profiling in the courtroom?
  • Race and jury selection in the twenty-first century
  • Exonerating the innocent : rape, race, and mistaken eyewitness identification
  • Playing the "race card" in a criminal trial
  • 7. Race and sentencing : in search of fairness and justice
  • Race and sentencing : is the United States moving forward or backward?
  • Racial disparity in sentencing
  • Empirical research on race and sentencing
  • Empirical research on race and sentencing
  • What does race/ethnicity matter?
  • 8. The color of death : race and the death penalty
  • The constitutionality of the dealth penalty
  • Attitudes toward capital punishment
  • Race and the death penalty : the empirical evidence
  • McClesky v. Kemp : the Supreme Court and racial discrimination in the application of the death penalty
  • The death penalty in the twenty-first century
  • 9. Corrections in America : a colorful portrait
  • The incarcerated : prison and jail populations
  • Jails and minorities
  • Community corrections
  • Theoretical perspectives on the racial distribution of correctional populations
  • 10 Minority youth and crime : minority youth in court
  • Young racial minorities as victims and offenders
  • Juveniles of color and the police
  • Race/ethnicity and the juvenile justice system
  • Juveniles under correctional supervision
  • 11. The color of justice
  • Explaining persistent racial and ethnic disparities
  • Explaining the disparities : systematic discrimination?
  • Past and present
  • The stubborn persistence of racial and ethnic disparities.