By Angela J. Davis
A accomplished, readable research of the main problems with the Black Lives subject circulate, this thought-provoking and compelling anthology good points essays by way of the various nation’s so much influential and revered legal justice specialists and criminal scholars.
Policing the Black Man explores and opinions the numerous methods the legal justice procedure affects the lives of African American boys and males at each level of the legal method, from arrest via sentencing. Essays variety from an explication of the old roots of racism within the felony justice process to an exam of modern day police killings of unarmed black males. The members talk about and clarify racial profiling, the ability and reticence of police and prosecutors, the position of implicit bias, the racial influence of police and prosecutorial judgements, the disproportionate imprisonment of black males, the collateral results of mass incarceration, and the perfect Court’s failure to supply significant treatments for the injustices within the legal justice procedure. Policing the Black Man is an enlightening must-read for an individual attracted to the severe problems with race and justice in America.
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