Volume 45, Number 4 · March 5, 1998
Justice for Blacks?
By Nicholas Lemann
Race, Crime, and the Law
by Randall Kennedy
Pantheon, 538 pp., $30.00
Search and Destroy: African-American Males in the Criminal Justice System
by Jerome G. Miller
Cambridge University Press, 304 pp., $16.95 (paper)
Malign Neglect—Race, Crime, and Punishment in America
by Michael Tonry
Oxford University Press, 233 pp., $11.95 (paper)
African-Americans make up an eighth of the population, but they occupy about half the places in American prisons. This figure, as Michael Tonry, the author of Malign Neglect and a professor of law and public policy at the University of Minnesota, writes, 'greatly underestimates' the vast disproportion of blacks, particularly young black men, caught up in the criminal justice system.[1]
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