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Policing the Black Man

Arrest, Prosecution, and Imprisonment

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A comprehensive, readable analysis of the key issues of the BlackLivesMatter movement, this thought-provoking and compelling anthology features essays by some of the nation's most influential and respected criminal justice experts and legal scholars. Contributing authors include Bryan Stevenson (Director of the Equal Justice Institute, NYU Law Professor, and author of New York Times bestseller Just Mercy), Sherrilyn Ifill (President and Director-Counsel of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund), Jeremy Travis (President of John Jay College of Criminal Justice), and many others.

Policing the Black Man explores and critiques the many ways the criminal justice system impacts the lives of African American boys and men at every stage of the criminal process from arrest through sentencing. Essays range from an explication of the historical roots of racism in the criminal justice system to an examination of modern-day police killings of unarmed black men. The co-authors discuss and explain racial profiling, the power and discretion of police and prosecutors, the role of implicit bias, the racial impact of police and prosecutorial decisions, the disproportionate imprisonment of black men, the collateral consequences of mass incarceration, and the Supreme Court's failure to provide meaningful remedies for the injustices in the criminal justice system. Policing the Black Man is an enlightening must-read for anyone interested in the critical issues of race and justice in America.

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    • Publisher's Weekly

      May 1, 2017
      “The political justice system polices black men at every step of the process,” asserts Davis (Arbitrary Justice), a professor of law at American University and editor of this eye-opening assemblage of essays on racism in the American criminal justice system. The various perspectives of the contributors—all specialists in criminal law and justice—offer a kaleidoscopic view of each step. In “Boys to Men,” for example, Kristin Henning, the director of the Juvenile Justice Clinic at Georgetown Law, demonstrates the devastating impact of the presence of police security officers in schools. Her essay is followed by law professor Katheryn Russell-Brown’s in-depth examination of implicit bias. “The Grand Jury and Police Violence Against Black Men,” by Roger Fairfax (Grand Jury 2.0), illuminates a less-discussed stage of the criminal process, as does Davis’s own contribution, which considers the particular role of the prosecutor. The culmination is relentlessly informative and disturbing.

    • AudioFile Magazine
      Professor Davis collects a powerful range of authors with critical legal perspectives that unpack the how racist ideology has been intertwined with the legal system throughout history and into the present. Robin Miles and Kevin Kenerly trade off narrating the essays according to each author's gender. Miles's matter-of-fact voice is coupled with a skill for timing and emphasis that makes the points being made resonate with the listener. Kenerly's deep and soft voice doesn't deliver the same punch that Miles's does but still provides a consistent and engaging narration. Amid the current racial tension in the U.S., Davis's collection articulates the ways that black men are legally disenfranchised and, as a result, culturally disregarded. L.E. © AudioFile 2017, Portland, Maine

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