Public policy and the U.S. prison system
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Public policy and the U.S. prison system
(Racism in American institutions / Brian D. Behnken, series editor, . Color behind bars : racism in the U.S. prison system ; v. 2)
Praeger, c2014
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A diverse, critical analysis of racial and ethnic disparities within the American criminal justice system that encourages critical thinking by providing various sides to the issues.
Low-income African Americans, Latin Americans, and American Indians bear the statistical brunt of policing, death penalty verdicts, and sentencing disparities in the United States. Why does this long-standing inequity exist in a country where schoolchildren are taught to expect "justice for all"? The original essays in this two-volume set not only examine the deep-rooted issues and lay out theories as to why racism remains a problem in our prison system, but they also provide potential solutions to the problem. The work gives a broad, multicultural overview of the history of overrepresentation of ethnic minorities in our prison system, examining white/black disparities as well as racism and issues of ethnic-based discrimination concerning other ethnic minorities. This up-to-date resource is ideally suited for undergraduate students who are enrolled in criminal justice or racial/ethnic studies classes and general readers interested in the U.S. criminal justice system.
Table of Contents
Series Foreword
Volume 1: Historical and Contemporary Issues
1. How Did We Get Here?: Historical Considerations of Minority Imprisonment
Scott Wm. Bowman
2. Jim Crow: A Total Institution-Navigating a Gateless Prison System
Ruth Thompson-Miller and Joe Feagin
3. Hegemony and Collective Memories: Japanese-American Relocation and Imprisonment on American Indian "Land"
Pedro Rodriguez and Pat Lauderdale
4. Residential Segregation and the Construction of an Incarcerated Underclass: Historical Considerations
Scott Wm. Bowman
5. The Marginalization and Criminalization of the Black Male Image in Postmodern America
Ronnie A. Dunn
6. Race/Ethnicity, Historical Labor Punishments, and the Evolution of Private Prisons
Sarah Scott
7. Court-Involved Latina Girls: Shackled, Silenced, and Invisible
Vera Lopez and Lisa Pasko
8. Race, Rape, and Disparity: A Historical Perspective
Anne Li Kringen
9. The Incarcerative Mentality of Eurocentrism: Prisoner Identification and Jailing the Imperfect Body
Nikitah Imani
10. Historical Perspectives on Race and the War on Drugs and the Prolonged Effects of Racially Biased Laws and Policies
Lauren Brinkley-Rubinstein
11. The Juvenile Justice System: An Analysis of Discretion and Minority Overrepresentation
Tony A. Barringer and Belinda E. Bruster
12. Asian Americans, Deviance, Crime, and the Model Minority Myth
Tamara K. Nopper
13. We Shall Not Forget This: Native Americans and Colonial Racism in American Prisons
Carl Root and Michael J. Lynch
14. The Mass Incarceration of Latinos in the United States: Looking Ahead to the Year 2050
Roberto J. Velasquez and Susana M. Funes
15. Impact of Mass Incarceration on African-American Women
Dorothy S. Ruiz
Volume 2: Public Policy and the U.S. Prison System
16. What Keeps Us Here?: Policies and Practices That Shape Minority Overrepresentation
Scott Wm. Bowman
17. Ethno-Racial Factors in the U.S. Prison System: Forensic Psychological Realities of Correctional Officers
Ronn Johnson
18. Counseling, Treatment, and Culture in Prison: One Size Fits All?
Leonard Steverson
19. Prison Privatization: The Political Economy of Race
Laurie A. Gould and Matthew Pate
20. The Zero Point of Mass Incarceration: Mandatory Minimums and the Enfleshment of Determinate Sentencing
Nicholas Brady
21. Race and the Three Strikes Law
Brian Chad Starks and Alana Van Gundy
22. How Prisons Became Dystopias of Color and Poverty: Prison Abolition Lessons from the War on Drugs
Michael J. Coyle
23. Return to the Rez: Native American Parolees' Transitions to Community Life
Joseph S. Masters and Timothy P. Hilton
24. Race and the Death Penalty in America
Danielle Dirks and Emma Zack
25. Reentry, Revocation, and Recidivism for Racial/Ethnic Minorities
Nkrumah Lewis
26. Racial/Ethnic Imprisonment and the Larger Community Effects
Eileen M. Ahlin
27. Muslims, the War on Terror, and Prisons
Elyshia Aseltine
28. The Ghosts of Slavery: Trying Juveniles as Adults
Christopher Bickel and Janette Diaz
29. Privilege and Prison: A Reconstruction of the Race/Crime Paradigm
Scott Wm. Bowman
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