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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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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Suddler, Carl (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : New York University Press, [2019]
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction. "The way I see it": reframing black youth and racial injustice
  • "The child is never basically bad": creating crime through prevention
  • "Margie's day": youth, race, and uprisings in wartime Harlem
  • "Every generation has had the habit of going to the devil": constructions of a postwar delinquent
  • "Beware of the cat on the corner": deconstructing a cycle of outrage
  • "In all our Harlems": policing black youths through the war on crime
  • Afterword. "Without a wrinkle in today": an ode to young forever.