Title African Americans and criminal justice : an encyclopedia / Delores D. Jones-Brown, Beverly D. Frazier, and Marvie Brooks, Editors.

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Santa Barbara, California : Greenwood, [2014]

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Description	1 online resource (xiv, 631 pages) : illustrations
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Note	Print version record.
Contents	List of entries -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- The encyclopedia -- Contributors -- Index -- About the editors.
Summary	This encyclopedia comprises descriptive essays documenting the ways in which people of African descent have been victimized by oppressive laws enacted by local, state, and federal authorities in the United States. It presents a frank and comprehensive view of how Americans of African descent have come to be viewed as synonymous with criminality, representing an essential learning resource for all American citizens, regardless of race or age.
Subject	Criminal justice, Administration of -- Moral and ethical aspects -- United States.
	Discrimination in criminal justice administration -- United States.
	Discrimination in capital punishment -- United States.
	African American criminals.
	United States -- Race relations.
	Criminal justice, Administration of -- United States.
	Criminal law -- Procedure.
	SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Criminology.
	African American criminals. (OCoLC)fst00799127
	Criminal justice, Administration of -- Moral and ethical aspects. (OCoLC)fst00883287
	Discrimination in capital punishment. (OCoLC)fst00895027
	Discrimination in criminal justice administration. (OCoLC)fst00895034
	Race relations. (OCoLC)fst01086509
	United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
Added Author	Jones-Brown, Delores D., editor.
	Frazier, Beverly D., editor.
	Brooks, Marvie, editor.
Other Form:	Print version: African Americans and criminal justice 9780313357169 (DLC) 2013042831 (OCoLC)729344399
ISBN	9780313357176 (electronic bk.)
	031335717X (electronic bk.)

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