Punishing Race
Author | : Michael Tonry |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 222 |
Release | : 2012-07-05 |
ISBN-10 | : 9780199926466 |
ISBN-13 | : 0199926468 |
Rating | : 4/5 (66 Downloads) |
Download or read book Punishing Race written by Michael Tonry and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2012-07-05 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Punishing Race addresses enduring paradoxes of racial disparities in America and the problems of race in the criminal justice system. The white majority, Tonry observes, has a remarkable capacity to endure the suffering of disadvantaged black and, increasingly, Hispanic men. The criminal justice system is the latest in a series of devices, including slavery, Jim Crow, and legally countenanced discrimination, that have maintained white dominance over black people. Setting out a new agenda, Tonry pushes for overdue - and realistic - changes in racial profiling and sentencing, and to the War on Drugs, to reduce their staggering human and social costs.