NCJ Number
181429
Editor(s)
Robynne Neugebauer
Date Published
2000
Length
392 pages
Annotation
This volume examines racism within the process of criminal justice.
Abstract
In every society, criminal justice plays a key role establishing social control and maintaining the hegemony of the dominant economic classes. The contributors to this anthology argue that the different treatment of people of color and First Nations peoples results from systemic racism at all levels of the criminal justice system, which serves the dominant classes. Ideological and cultural changes are preconditions for the success of anti-racist policies and practices within the criminal justice system and within other state institutions. Topics discussed in the book’s 16 essays include Canadian criminal justice; contradictory American media images of blackness; systemic racism in the Ontario criminal justice system; an international perspective on racial discrimination in law; the social organization of police-minority youth relations; community perspectives on police response; police accountability and black people; African-Americans in policing; roles and responsibilities of Aboriginal women; and anti-racist directions in probation practice and training. Figures, notes, references, recommended readings, tables, bibliographies