Punishing Race: A Continuing American Dilemma

by Michael Tonry

Book Overview

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.

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199926468
• ISBN13: 9780199926466
• Release Date: July 2012
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 222 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.4" x 8.2"