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02607aam a2200433 a 4500 001 2B253F04517511E0A5987EABC41A358D 003 SILO 005 20110318103249 008 100907s2011 enka b 001 0 eng 010 $a 2010038007 020 $a 0521743818 (pbk.) 020 $a 9780521743815 (pbk.) 020 $a 0521767792 (hardback) 020 $a 9780521767798 (hardback) 035 $a (OCoLC)656771872 040 $a DLC $c DLC $d SILO $d UKM $d YDXCP $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a n-us--- 050 00 $a HV9950 $b .M55 2011 082 00 $a 364.089/96073 $2 22 100 1 $a Miller, Jerome G., $d 1931- 245 1 $a Search and destroy : $b African-American males in the criminal justice system / $c Jerome G. Miller. 250 $a 2nd ed. 260 $a Cambridge ; $b Cambridge University Press, $c 2011. 300 $a xx, 192 p. : $b ill. ; $c 24 cm. 520 $a "This book addresses widespread social assumptions associating crime and the imprisonment of African American men"--Provided by publisher. 520 $a "This tightly argued and methodologically sound volume addresses widespread social assumptions associating crime and African-American men. An exploration of the criminal justice system in America today and its impact on young African-American males, this book challenges the linking of crime and race and the conservative anti-welfare, hard-oncrime agenda. Jerry Miller has spent a lifetime studying and challenging our criminal justice system. He has worked to make it more progressive and more just. He has watched as it turned into a system of segregation and control for many Americans of color. That is the story told here in condemning devastating detail"--Provided by publisher. 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 505 8 $a Machine generated contents note: 1. Prologue: from which aristocratic colours peep; 2. Thescope of the problem; 3. Hyping violence; 4. Unanticipated consequences; 5. Race baiting and kitsch; 6. The search for the criminaloid; 7. Banishing indecision; 7. Epilogue. 650 0 $a Discrimination in criminal justice administration $z United States. 650 0 $a Criminal justice, Administration of $z United States. 650 0 $a African American criminals. 650 0 $a African American men. 856 42 $3 Cover image $u http://assets.cambridge.org/97805217/43815/cover/9780521743815.jpg 941 $a 3 952 $l CEAX572 $d 20200508015930.0 952 $l USUX851 $d 20160825074518.0 952 $l UXAX826 $d 20150506020712.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=2B253F04517511E0A5987EABC41A358DInitiate Another SILO Locator Search