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

2nd Edition

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  • Date Published: January 2011
  • availability: In stock
  • format: Paperback
  • isbn: 9780521743815

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  • 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-crime 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 devastating detail.

    • Author has spent most of professional life attempting to lower institutional populations
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    • Edition: 2nd Edition
    • Date Published: January 2011
    • format: Paperback
    • isbn: 9780521743815
    • length: 212 pages
    • dimensions: 228 x 153 x 15 mm
    • weight: 0.3kg
    • contains: 4 b/w illus. 4 tables
    • availability: In stock
  • Table of Contents

    1. Prologue: from which aristocratic colours peep
    2. The scope of the problem
    3. Hyping violence
    4. Unanticipated consequences
    5. Race baiting and kitsch
    6. The search for the criminaloid
    7. Banishing indecision
    7. Epilogue.

  • Instructors have used or reviewed this title for the following courses

    • Crime: Race, Poverty & Social Policy
  • Author

    Jerome G. Miller
    Dr Jerrry Miller holds a Doctor of Social Work degree from the Catholic University of America. In 1968, he became Associate Professor of Social Work at Ohio State University. He was subsequently appointed to the cabinet of Massachusetts Republican Governor Frank Sargent in 1969 to head the newly created Massachusetts Department of Youth Services and has also served on the gubernatorial staff of Milton Shapp, former governor of Pennsylvania. In 1977, he founded the National Center on Institutions and Alternatives (NCIA), a non-profit organization to set up alternative plans for youth and adults otherwise institutionalized in reform schools, prisons, mental hospitals and state institutions for the developmentally disabled. He has been consultant to the U.S. Justice Department, evaluating juvenile and adult institutions in more than 30 states, and has served as a special master for a number of federal judges. He has assisted in developing mitigative studies for individuals on death row in numerous states. He continues to see individuals clinically and is presently finishing a manuscript on the issue of sex offenders in our society and the 'moral panic' in which modern industrial societies are caught up. His articles dealing with the topics of this book have appeared in the Los Angeles Times, the New York Times and the Washington Post.

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