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Search and Destroy
African-American Males in the Criminal Justice System

By Miller, Jerome G.

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ISBN: 0521767792 Publisher: Cambridge Univ Pr Published: Nov 22 2010 Pages: 192 Weight: 0.95lbs. Height: 9.00" Width: 6.00" Depth: 0.75" Language: English

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"This tightly argued and methodologically sound volume addresses widespread social assumptions associating crime and African-American men. An exploration of the criminal justice system in America today and its impact on young African-American males, thisbook challenges the linking of crime and race and the conservative anti-welfare, hard-oncrime agenda. Jerry Miller has spent a lifetime studying and challenging our criminal justice system. He has worked to make it more progressive and more just. He has watched as it turned into a system of segregation and control for many Americans of color. That is the story told here in condemning devastating detail"--Provided by publisher.