The color of justice race, ethnicity, and crime in America - Walker, Samuel 1942-; Spohn, Cassia; DeLone, Miriam (Boston MA Cengage Learning, 2018)
6. Justice on the bench? : trial and adjudication in Criminal Court -- Race/ethnicity and the criminal trial -- Selection of the jury pool -- Racial discrimination -- Racial diversity -- Peremptory challenge : racial profiling the courtroom? -- The Supreme Court and the peremptory challenge -- From Swain to Batson and beyond -- Race and jury selection -- Rape, race, and mistaken eyewitness identification -- Playing the "race card" -- Race-conscious jury nullification : Black power in the courtroom? -- Randall Kennedy's critique -- 7. Race and sentencing : in search of fairness and justice -- Racial disparity in sentencing -- Empirical research on race and sentencing -- When does race/ethnicity matter? -- Race ethnicity and sentencing -- Hispanics -- Illegal immigrants vs. U.S. citizens? -- Asian Americans -- Native Americans and sentencing disparity in State and Federal courts -- Race/ethnicity, gender, age, and employment -- Differential treatment of interracial and intraracial sexual assault -- Offender-victim race and sentences for sexual assault -- Liberation hypothesis and offenders convicted of violent felonies -- Racial discrimination in the sentencing of misdemeanor offenders? -- Sentencing and the War on Drugs -- Racial disparities in sentence imposed fro drug offenses -- Drug offenders in State courts -- Drug offenders in Federal courts -- Racial minorities and cumulative disadvantage -- Effect of skin tone on punishment -- Comparison of the sentencing decisions of African American, Hispanic, and White judges -- 8. The color of death : race and the death penalty -- Constitutionality of the Death Penalty -- Furman v. Georgia -- Post-Furman decisions -- Attitudes toward capital punishment -- Post-Gregg studies -- Race and the Federal capital sentencing process -- McClesky v. Kemp : the Supreme Court and racial discrimination in the application of the death penalty -- The Racial Justice Act -- 9. Corrections in America : a portrait in color -- Prison and jail populations -- Minority overrepresentation -- Intersectionality with gender and age -- Race, ethnicity, and recidivism -- The Age of Mass Incarceration -- Offender reentry -- Community corrections -- Parole -- Probation -- Race and religion -- Prison gangs -- Aryan Brotherhood -- Black Guerilla Family -- Mexican Mafia -- Neta -- Texas Syndicate -- Women in prison -- 10. Minority youth and crime : minority youth in court -- Juvenile population in the United States -- Young racial minorities as victims of crime -- Property crime victimization -- Violent crime victimization -- Victimization of young African-American girls -- Homicide victimization -- Young racial minorities as offenders -- Juvenile arrests -- Juveniles of color and the police -- Race/ethnicity and the Juvenile Justice System -- Race/ethnicity, gender, and age : juvenile justice in Nebraska -- Transfer of juveniles to Criminal Court -- Disparate treatment of juvenile offenders -- Juveniles under correctional supervision -- 11. The color of justice -- Explaining persistent racial and ethnic disparities.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 521-545) and index.
Keywords: Discrimination in criminal justice administration -- United States; Race discrimination -- United States; Ethnicity -- United States; Social structure -- United States; Minorities -- Crimes against -- United States; Police misconduct -- United States; United States -- Race relations; United States -- Social conditions