Gerald K. Fosten

Social Inequality, Criminal Justice, and Race in Tennessee

1960-2014

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book examines the national criminal justice system's and the state of Tennessee criminal justice system's policies in terms of how they balance the citizens' need for prisons with the private sector's desire for profits and the policies' effects on the incarceration rate of African American males in the state of Tennessee.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Lexington Books
• Seitenzahl: 150
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. Dezember 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 380g
• ISBN-13: 9781498559201
• ISBN-10: 1498559204
• Artikelnr.: 49459534

Autorenporträt

Gerald K. Fosten is research associate at the African Institution in Washington, DC.

Inhaltsangabe

1. The Criminal Justice System as Social Policy 2. Historical Context of
African American Inequality in Tennessee 3. Competing Perspectives on
Social Inequality, Criminal Justice, and Race in the United States 4.
African American Disenfranchisement in Tennessee 5. Profit-Seeking Motives
and Racist Policy in Tennessee 6. Summary, Conclusions, and Policy
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