Title:
Race and policing in modern America / by Duchess Harris, JD, PhD, with R.L. Van.
ISBN:
9781532194689
9781644945117
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Publication Information:
Minneapolis : Abdo Publishing, a division of ABDO, [2021]
©2021
Physical Description:
48 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), charts ; 24 cm.
General Note:
Includes index.
Contents:
Foundations of a flawed system -- Systemic racism -- Use of force and justice -- The future of American policing.
Summary:
This book explores how the US criminal justice system perpetuates inequality, from the police's origins as slave patrols to the school-to-prison pipeline. The United States has the highest incarceration rate in the world, and there is great racial inequality in the criminal justice system.
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800L Lexile
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OCLC Number:
on1236882269
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