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Product Description: In this investigation of some 350 wrongful convictions of African American men, Marvin Free and Mitch Ruesink critically examine how issues of race undercut the larger goals of our criminal justice system. Free and Ruesink expand the focus of wrongful conviction studies to include not only homicide, but also sexual assault, drug dealing, and nonviolent crime...read more

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9781588268105 | Lynne Rienner Pub, February 28, 2012, cover price $68.00 | About this edition: In this investigation of some 350 wrongful convictions of African American men, Marvin Free and Mitch Ruesink critically examine how issues of race undercut the larger goals of our criminal justice system.

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9781626372375 | Reprint edition (Lynne Rienner Pub, April 3, 2015), cover price $29.95 | About this edition: In this investigation of some 350 wrongful convictions of African American men, Marvin Free and Mitch Ruesink critically examine how issues of race undercut the larger goals of our criminal justice system.

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Product Description: Bloodstone is the second novel in Gillian Philip's critically acclaimed Rebel Angels series, debuting in the United States for the first time. For centuries, Sithe warriors Seth and Conal MacGregor have hunted for the Bloodstone demanded by their Queen...read more

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9780765333285 | Tor Books, November 19, 2013, cover price $24.99 | About this edition: Bloodstone is the second novel in Gillian Philip's critically acclaimed Rebel Angels series, debuting in the United States for the first time.
9780313243806, titled "A Profile of the Negro American" | Olympic Marketing Corp, June 1, 1964, cover price $3.98 | also contains A Profile of the Negro American

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9780765369420 | Reprint edition (Tor Books, June 3, 2014), cover price $8.99 | About this edition: Bloodstone is the second novel in Gillian Philip's critically acclaimed Rebel Angels series, debuting in the United States for the first time.

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Product Description: Utilizing a field study on felons that were within one year of completing incarceration, Pinkard analyzes the legal history, constitutionality, conflicting laws, political, and life chance consequences of felon disenfranchisement laws on African American felons and the African American community...read more

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9781593326012 | Lfb Scholarly Pub Llc, May 15, 2013, cover price $70.00 | About this edition: Utilizing a field study on felons that were within one year of completing incarceration, Pinkard analyzes the legal history, constitutionality, conflicting laws, political, and life chance consequences of felon disenfranchisement laws on African American felons and the African American community.

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Product Description: When The Color of Crime was first published ten years ago, it was heralded as a path-breaking book on race and crime. Now, in its tenth anniversary year, Katheryn Russell-Brown’s book is more relevant than ever. The Jena Six, Duke Lacrosse Team, Amadou Diallo, Sean Bell, James Byrd, and all of those victimized in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina are just a few of the racially fueled cases that have made headlines in the past decade...read more

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9780814776179 | 2 edition (New York Univ Pr, December 1, 2008), cover price $85.00 | About this edition: When The Color of Crime was first published ten years ago, it was heralded as a path-breaking book on race and crime.

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9780814776186 | 2 edition (New York Univ Pr, December 1, 2008), cover price $26.00

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Product Description: Inspired by the O.J. Simpson case, Protecting Our Own explores the reasons behind the rise of the 'black protectionism' phenomenon and its implications for the future. Comparing the plight of the African American community to the melancholy lyrics but vibrant beat of the blues, Russell-Brown uses the lyrics of these songs to paint a vivid picture of the African American community struggling through the burdens of racial oppression such as second tier status and lynchings solely due to the color of their skins...read more

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9780742545700 | Rowman & Littlefield Pub Inc, February 28, 2006, cover price $69.00 | About this edition: Inspired by the O.

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9780742545717 | Rowman & Littlefield Pub Inc, February 28, 2006, cover price $27.00 | About this edition: Inspired by the O.

By Shaun L. Gabbidon (editor), Helen Taylor Greene (editor) and Vernetta D. Young (editor)

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9780761924326 | Sage Pubns, September 27, 2001, cover price $151.00

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9780761924333 | Sage Pubns, September 27, 2001, cover price $96.00

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Product Description: When searching for a solution for a recurring problem, it's natural to look for the outside factors which are causing it. But time and again we must be reminded that instead, when faced with a dilemma, one should look within for the solution...read more

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9780805946130 | Dorrance Pub Co, May 1, 2000, cover price $8.00 | About this edition: When searching for a solution for a recurring problem, it's natural to look for the outside factors which are causing it.

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Product Description: When Americans are asked what concerns them most about the direction of the country, crime and racial tensions invariably figure prominently in the answer. In the minds of many, these two problems are inextricably linked. Yet opinions and beliefs about race and crime are often informed as much by myth and preconception as by fact and reality...read more

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9780814774717 | New York Univ Pr, January 1, 1998, cover price $60.00

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9780814775325 | New York Univ Pr, September 1, 1999, cover price $21.00 | About this edition: When Americans are asked what concerns them most about the direction of the country, crime and racial tensions invariably figure prominently in the answer.

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Examines the issues of race, crime, and the legal system, showing the failure of the criminal justice system to protect Blacks from criminals, and debating the wisdom of using racial criteria in jury selection

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9780679438816 | Pantheon Books, May 1, 1997, cover price $30.00 | About this edition: Looks at the racial issues that affect the criminal justice system, and argues that Blacks have been more underprotected by law enforcement than mistreated as suspects or defendants
9780756754846 | Diane Pub Co, March 1, 1997, cover price $30.00

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9780375701849 | Reprint edition (Vintage Books, April 1, 1998), cover price $19.95 | About this edition: Examines the issues of race, crime, and the legal system, showing the failure of the criminal justice system to protect Blacks from criminals, and debating the wisdom of using racial criteria in jury selection

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Product Description: An exploration into the criminal justice system in America today and its impact on young African American males, this book challenges the linking of crime and race and the conservative anti-welfare, hard-on-crime agenda. Jerry Miller has spent a lifetime studying and challenging our criminal justice system...read more

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9780521767798 | 2 edition (Cambridge Univ Pr, November 22, 2010), cover price $94.99 | About this edition: An exploration into the criminal justice system in America today and its impact on young African American males, this book challenges the linking of crime and race and the conservative anti-welfare, hard-on-crime agenda.
9780521460217 | Cambridge Univ Pr, May 1, 1996, cover price $69.00 | About this edition: Examines the U.

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9780521743815 | 2 edition (Cambridge Univ Pr, November 22, 2010), cover price $34.99 | About this edition: An exploration into the criminal justice system in America today and its impact on young African American males, this book challenges the linking of crime and race and the conservative anti-welfare, hard-on-crime agenda.
9780521598583 | Reprint edition (Cambridge Univ Pr, July 1, 1997), cover price $35.99 | About this edition: Examines the United States criminal justice system and the disproportionate number of African American males who are inmates

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Product Description: First published in 1996. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

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9780815319825 | Routledge, October 1, 1995, cover price $150.00 | About this edition: First published in 1996.

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Product Description: This text examines the social forces that influence Black responses to differential conditions in American society. It raises the issue of differential social status and its effect on whites who are similarly situated at the low end of the class spectrum...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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9780275949372 | Praeger Pub Text, June 1, 1995, cover price $84.00 | About this edition: This text examines the social forces that influence Black responses to differential conditions in American society.

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By P. Ray Kedia (editor)

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9781556052477 | Wyndham Hall Pr, November 1, 1994, cover price $32.00 | About this edition: Book by

Product Description: Book by
By P. Ray Kedia (editor)

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9781556052460 | Wyndham Hall Pr, November 1, 1994, cover price $20.00 | About this edition: Book by

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Book by Rose, Harold M., McClain, Paula D.

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9780791403938 | State Univ of New York Pr, July 1, 1990, cover price $64.50 | About this edition: Book by Rose, Harold M.

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9780791403945 | State Univ of New York Pr, November 1, 1990, cover price $31.95

Product Description: This volume of essays assesses recent trends and patterns of homicide among black Americans and offers several theories to explain the disproportionate occurrence of homicide among blacks in comparison to other racial groups. The contributors, whose major concern is the prevention of homicide within the black community, focus on both the incidence of acts of homicide committed by blacks, and homicide victimization...read more

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9780819155986 | Univ Pr of Amer, October 1, 1986, cover price $52.50 | About this edition: This volume of essays assesses recent trends and patterns of homicide among black Americans and offers several theories to explain the disproportionate occurrence of homicide among blacks in comparison to other racial groups.

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9780819155993 | Univ Pr of Amer, December 1, 1986, cover price $35.99 | About this edition: This volume of essays assesses recent trends and patterns of homicide among black Americans and offers several theories to explain the disproportionate occurrence of homicide among blacks in comparison to other racial groups.

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9780876324387 | Clark Boardman Callaghan, September 1, 1984, cover price $29.95

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Hardcover:

9780313243806 | Olympic Marketing Corp, June 1, 1964, cover price $3.98 | also contains Bloodstone

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