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Search and Destroy: African-American Males in the Criminal Justice System
Search and Destroy AfricanAmerican Males in the Criminal Justice System
Author: Jerome G. Miller
This tightly argued and methodologically sound volume addresses widespread social assumptions associating crime and African American men. An exploration into the criminal justice system in America today and its impact on young African American males, this book challenges the linking of crime and race and the conservative anti-welfare, hard-on-cr...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780521743815
ISBN-10: 0521743818
Publication Date: 11/22/2010
Pages: 216
Edition: 2
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Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover
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This book follows up Miller's classic "Last One Over the Wall," about his years heading Massachusetts' juvenile justice system, with a stinging indictment of politicized crime policy and flawed criminological research and interpretation. Miller shows how young, minority males bear the brunt of misguided, heavy-handed law enforcement, especially in the name of the so-called "War on Drugs." Published 15 years ago, but sadly more true than ever.


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