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Author Fosten, Gerald K., author.

Title Social inequality, criminal justice, and race in Tennessee : 1960-2014 / Gerald K. Fosten.

Publication Info. Lanham : Lexington Books, [2018]
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Description 1 online resource (xv, 131 pages)
text file
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents The criminal justice system as social policy -- Historical context of African American inequality in Tennessee -- Competing perspectives on social inequality, criminal justice, and race in the United States -- African American disenfranchisement in Tennessee -- Profit-seeking motives and racist policy in Tennessee -- Summary, conclusions, and policy recommendations.
Summary This book examines the national criminal justice system's and the state of Tennessee criminal justice system's policies in terms of how they balance the citizens' need for prisons with the private sector's desire for profits and the policies' effects on the incarceration rate of African American males in the state of Tennessee.
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Subject Discrimination in criminal justice administration -- Tennessee.
Discrimination in criminal justice administration.
Tennessee.
African Americans -- Tennessee -- Social conditions.
African Americans.
Social conditions.
Prison-industrial complex -- Tennessee.
Equality -- United States.
Prison-industrial complex.
United States.
United States -- Race relations.
Race relations.
Equality.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Criminology.
African Americans -- Social conditions.
Other Form: Print version: Fosten, Gerald K. Social inequality, criminal justice, and race in Tennessee. Lanham : Lexington Books, [2017] 9781498559201 (DLC) 2017043351
ISBN 9781498559218 (electronic book)
1498559212 (electronic book)
9781498559201 (hardcover)

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