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Search and Destroy : African-American Males in the Criminal Justice System
Search and Destroy AfricanAmerican Males in the Criminal Justice System
Author: Jerome G. Miller
The war on drugs, begun in the Reagan Administration and presently continuing unabated, has resulted in an explosion in the American prison population. Whether a desired effect of the war or not, this increase has been accounted for by a severely disproportionate number of African American males. Jerome Miller demonstrates in Search and Destroy...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780521460217
ISBN-10: 0521460212
Publication Date: 4/26/1996
Pages: 344
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Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Book Type: Hardcover
Other Versions: Paperback
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This book follows up Miller's classic "Last One Over the Wall," about his years heading Massachusetts' juvenile justice system, with a stinging indictment of politicized crime policy and flawed criminological research and interpretation. Miller shows how young, minority males bear the brunt of misguided, heavy-handed law enforcement, especially in the name of the so-called "War on Drugs." Published 15 years ago, but sadly more true than ever.


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