Punishing Race: A Continuing American Dilemma
Punishing Race addresses enduring paradoxes of racial disparities in America and the problems of race in the criminal justice system. The white majority, Tonry observes, has a remarkable capacity to endure the suffering of disadvantaged black and, increasingly, Hispanic men. The criminal justice system is the latest in a series of devices, including slavery, Jim Crow, and legally countenanced discrimination, that have maintained white dominance over blackpeople. Setting out a new agenda, Tonry pushes for overdue - and realistic - changes in racial profiling and sentencing, and to the War on Drugs, to reduce their staggering human and social c…
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- ISBN: 978-0-19-992646-6
- EAN: 9780199926466
- Produktnummer: 22183035
- Verlag: OXFORD UNIV PR
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2012
- Seitenangabe: 224 S.
- Masse: H20.8 cm x B13.7 cm x D1.8 cm 249 g
- Gewicht: 249
Über den Autor
Michael Tonry is Professor of Law and Public Policy at the University of Minnesota Law School, and Senior Fellow at the Netherlands Institute for the Study of Crime and Law Enforcement at Free University in Amsterdam.
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