Political Roots of Racial Tracking in American Criminal Justice - Race, Crime, and Criminal Justice Politics in the United States

This book examines the role of the public and policy makers in enabling the race problem in the American criminal justice system.

List of contents

1. Racial tracking: two law-enforcement modes; 2. Policy process theory of racial tracking: an overview; 3. A color-blind problem: the US Supreme Court and racial influences in law enforcement; 4. Opportunities for change: the racial justice agenda in Congress; 5. Congress as power player: racial justice versus 'law and order'; 6. The politics principle and the party playbook; 7. Public mind-set: what Americans believe about race, crime, and criminal justice disparities; 8. Reasons to believe: options concerning race, crime, and justice.

About the author

Nina M. Moore is a political science professor at Colgate University. She was recently named in The Princeton Review's The Best 300 Professors in the United States. Her research, teaching, and writing focus on racial inequality, public policy, and governance processes. Moore was appointed by Governor David Patterson to a four-year term on the New York State Commission on Judicial Conduct (2009–13) and by the New York state senate to the Advisory Council on Underage Alcohol Consumption and Youth Substance Abuse (2010–present). She is the author of Governing Race: Policy, Process, and the Politics of Race.

Summary

This book examines the role of the public and policy makers in enabling the race problem in the American criminal justice system. It illustrates how the problem consists of not only the overrepresentation of blacks in prisons but also the harsher and less sympathetic treatment of blacks throughout the entire criminal process.

Product details

• Authors: Nina Moore, Nina M Moore, Nina M. Moore, Nina M. (Colgate University Moore, Moore Nina M.
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 26.01.2015
• EAN: 9781107654884
• ISBN: 978-1-107-65488-4
• No. of pages: 406
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; USA, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Minority Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Criminology, POLITICAL SCIENCE / American Government / General, Politics & government, United States of America, USA, Ethnic groups and multicultural studies, Politics and government, Ethnic minorities & multicultural studies, Crime and criminology, Crime & criminology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Biracial & Multiracial Studies