Presumed Criminal Black Youth and the Justice System in Postwar New York
Presumed Criminal: Black Youth and the Justice System in Postwar New York

A startling examination of the deliberate criminalization of black youths from the 1930s totodayA stark disparity exists between black and white youth experiences in the justice system today. Black youths are perceived to be older and less innocent than their white peers. When it comes to incarcerat...

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1. Verfasser: Suddler, Carl (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: New York, NY New York University Press [2019]
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SOCIAL SCIENCE / Black Studies (Global)
African American youth > New York (State) > New York > Social conditions > 20th century
African Americans > New York (State) > New York > Social conditions > 20th century
Discrimination in criminal justice administration > New York (State) > New York > History > 20th century
Juvenile delinquency > New York (State) > New York > History > 20th century
Youth and violence > New York (State) > New York > History > 20th century
Diskriminierung
Jugendlicher Täter
Gerechtigkeit
Schwarze
New York > Staat
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Zusammenfassung:A startling examination of the deliberate criminalization of black youths from the 1930s totodayA stark disparity exists between black and white youth experiences in the justice system today. Black youths are perceived to be older and less innocent than their white peers. When it comes to incarceration, race trumps class, and even as black youths articulate their own experiences with carceral authorities, many Americans remain surprised by the inequalities they continue to endure. In this revealing book, Carl Suddler brings to light a much longer history of the policies and strategies that tethered the lives of black youths to the justice system indefinitely.The criminalization of black youth is inseparable from its racialized origins. In the mid-twentieth century, the United States justice system began to focus on punishment, rather than rehabilitation. By the time the federal government began to address the issue of juvenile delinquency, the juvenile justice system shifted its priorities from saving delinquent youth to purely controlling crime, and black teens bore the brunt of the transition.In New York City, increased state surveillance of predominantly black communities compounded arrest rates during the post–World War II period, providing justification for tough-on-crime policies. Questionable police practices, like stop-and-frisk, combined with media sensationalism, cemented the belief that black youth were the primary cause for concern. Even before the War on Crime, the stakes were clear: race would continue to be the crucial determinant in American notions of crime and delinquency, and black youths condemned with a stigma of criminality would continue to confront the overwhelming power of the state
Beschreibung:Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 08. Jun 2020)
Beschreibung:1 online resource 15 black and white illustrations
ISBN:9781479812691

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