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

Presumed Criminal : : Black Youth and the Justice System in Postwar New York / / Carl Suddler.

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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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter New York University Press Complete eBook-Package 2019
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Suddler, Carl,
Place / Publishing House:New York, NY : : New York University Press, , [2019]
©2019
Year of Publication:2019
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource :; 15 b/w illustrations
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • List of Illustrations
  • Introduction: “The Way I See It”: Reframing Black Youth and Racial Injustice
  • 1. “The Child Is Never Basically Bad”: Creating Crime through Prevention
  • 2. “Margie’s Day”: Youth, Race, and Uprisings in Wartime Harlem
  • 3. “Every Generation Has Had the Habit of Going to the Devil”: Constructions of a Postwar Delinquent
  • 4. “Beware of the Cat on the Corner”: Deconstructing a Cycle of Outrage
  • 5. “In All Our Harlems”: Policing Black Youths through the War on Crime
  • Afterword: “Without a Wrinkle in Today”: An Ode to “Young Forever”
  • Acknowledgments
  • Manuscript Sources
  • Notes
  • Index
  • About the Author

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