The Color of Crime, Third Edition : : Racial Hoaxes, White Crime, Media Messages, Police Violence, and Other Race-Based Harms / / Katheryn Russell-Brown.

How we can understand race, crime, and punishment in the age of Black Lives MatterWhen The Color of Crime was first published in 1998, it was heralded as a path-breaking book on race and crime. Now, in its third edition, Katheryn Russell-Brown’s book is more relevant than ever, as police killings of...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE Sociology 2021 English
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Place / Publishing House:New York, NY : : New York University Press, , [2021]
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Year of Publication:2021
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource :; 21 b/w illustrations
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Introduction
  • 1. Definitions, Statistics, and Issues
  • 2. Media Messages
  • 3. History’s Strange Fruit
  • 4. Racial Discrimination, Racial Profiling, and Racial Monitoring
  • 5. Racial Hoaxes
  • 6. White Crime
  • 7. Race and Crime Literacy
  • 8. The Soul Savers
  • Acknowledgments
  • Appendix A: Data Snapshots on Race and Crime
  • Appendix B: Racial Hoax Cases
  • Notes
  • Selected Bibliography
  • Index
  • About the Author