- 440 pages
- English
- PDF
- Available on iOS & Android
About this book
Criminal justice practices such as policing and imprisonment are integral to the creation of racialized experiences in U.S. society. Race as an important category of difference, however, did not arise here with the criminal justice system but rather with the advent of European colonial conquest and the birth of the U.S. racial state. Race and Crime examines how race became a defining feature of the system and why mass incarceration emerged as a new racial management strategy. This book reviews the history of race and criminology and explores the impact of racist colonial legacies on the organization of criminal justice institutions. Using a macrostructural perspective, students will learn to contextualize issues of race, crime, and criminal justice. Topics include:
- How "coloniality" explains the practices that reproduce racial hierarchies
- The birth of social science and social programs from the legacies of racial science
- The defining role of geography and geographical conquest in the continuation of mass incarceration
- The emergence of the logics of crime control, the War on Drugs, the redefinition of federal law enforcement, and the reallocation of state resources toward prison building, policing, and incarceration
- How policing, courts, and punishment perpetuate the colonial order through their institutional structures and policies
Race and Crime will help students understand how everyday practices of punishment and surveillance are employed in and through the police, courts, and community to create and shape the geographies of injustice in the United States today.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Race and Crime
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Preface
- 1 Race, Crime, and Justice: Definitions and Context
- 2 Race, Colonialism, and the Emergence of Racial Democracy
- 3 The History of Racial Science: Social Science and the Birth of Criminology
- 4 Social Problems and the U.S. Racial State
- 5 Housing Inequality and the Geography of Residential Racial Segregation
- 6 The Problem of Urban America: Race and the Emergence of Mass Incarceration
- 7 Policing the City
- 8 The Colonial Order of the Court
- 9 Imprisoning Race: From Slavery to the Prison
- 10 “Race to Execution”: Lynching, Mass Incarceration, and the Resurgence of the Death Penalty
- 11 Conclusion: Futures of Race and Crime?
- Index