Search and Destroy : African-American Males in the Criminal Justice System

This tightly argued and methodologically sound volume addresses widespread social assumptions associating crime and African-American men.An exploration into the criminal justice system in America today and its impact on young African-American males, this book challenges the linking of crime and race and the conservative anti-welfare, hard-on-crime agenda.Jerry Miller has spent a lifetime studying and challenging our criminal justice system.He has worked to make it more progressive and more just.He has watched as it turned into a system of segregation and control for many Americans of color.That is the story told here in devastating detail.