ASIN: B003N9CKCQ
Publisher: Amazon.com Services LLC
Pages: 256
This book is written primarily for those members of the public—including lawmakers—who might be unaware of the damage wrought on U.S. society by decades of counterproductive criminal justice policies.In these pages, two fundamental questions are addressed: Why have lawmakers embraced counterproductive criminal justice policies? What have been the consequences of these policies? Prison Race is a double entendre. During the past two decades in the U.S., there has been a move toward incarceration, and one group in particular has been impacted by discriminatory and unjust corrections policies driven by the promises of politicians to "get tough on crime." Although this book is more about criminal justice policies than it is about race, it examines these policies in the context of their impact on the African American male population. The federal government's extraordinarily slow response to ...
