Punishing race : a continuing American dilemma / Michael Tonry.

How can it be, in a nation that elected Barack Obama, that one third of African American males born in 2001 will spend time in a state or federal prison, and that black men are seven times likelier than white men to be in prison? Blacks are much more likely than whites to be stopped by the police, a...

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Online Access:Electronic book from EBSCO
Main Author: Tonry, Michael H.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published:New York : Oxford University Press, Ã2011.
Series:Studies in crime and public policy.
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