Justice with Prejudice

Edited by Michael J. Lynch and E. Britt Patterson.

"Nothing has changed" is the conclusion to be drawn from reading the collection of original articles that describe and analyze the countless ways in which racial prejudice affects the processing and outcomes of minority offenders in the American criminal justice system. Written in the 1990s, most of the observations still apply. CONTENTS: 1. Thinking About Race and Criminal Justice: Racism, Stereotypes, Politics, Academia, and the Need for Context; 2. Moral Panic as Ideology: Drugs, Violence, Race and Punishment in America; 3. "The Tangle of Pathology" and the Lower Class African American Family: Historical and Social Science Perspectives; 4. The Image of Black Women in Criminology: Historical Stereotypes as Theoretical Foundation; 5. Race, Popular Culture, And The News; 6. Vice and Social Control: Predispositional Detention and the Juvenile Drug Offender; 7. Race, Contextual Factors, and the Waiver Decision Within Juvenile Court Proceedings: Preliminary Findings From a Test of The Symbolic Threat Thesis; 8. Race and Criminal Justice: Employment of Minorities in the Criminal Justice System; 9. Race And Social Class in the Examination of Punishment; References; Notes.

Harrow and Heston Publishers. 1992. 246p.