NCJ Number
234474
Journal
Law & Policy Volume: 33 Issue: 2 Dated: April 2011 Pages: 179-214
Date Published
April 2011
Length
36 pages
Annotation
This article examines a case study of institutional racism.
Abstract
This article uses a case study of selective drug law enforcement in Cleveland, OH, to explore the contours of institutional racism in criminal justice policy and practice. Using the multilevel theoretical framework developed by Ian Haney Lopez (2000) that highlights the processes underlying how institutional racism is manifested, the author analyzed how and why racially discriminatory arrest and charging practices were able to persist in this case as well as how they were eventually reformed. In doing so, the author explored the role of institutional empathy (and its withholding) in institutional racism and illustrated how the exploitation of empathy can be used strategically to effect policy change. (Published Abstract)