JUSTICE TRENDS

Racial Trends in the Administration of Criminal Justice

Randall Kennedy

Race and Criminal Justice

Alfred Blumstein

Commentary on Randall Kennedy's Overview of the Justice System

Darnell F. Hawkins

LABOR FORCE, INCOME, WEALTH, AND WELFARE TRENDS

Race and Ethnicity in the Labor Market: Trends Over the Short and Long Term

James P. Smith

Racial Differences in Labor Market Outcomes Among Men

Harry J. Holzer

Racial Trends in Labor Market Access and Wages: Women

Cecilia A. Conrad

Ethnic and Racial Differences in Welfare Receipt in the United States

Robert A. Moffitt

Peter T. Gottschalk

Labor Force Trends: The Military as Data

John Sibley Butler

Charles C. Moskos

Trends in Minority-Owned Businesses

Thomas D. Boston

Wealth and Racial Stratification

Melvin L. Oliver

Thomas M. Shapiro

HEALTH TRENDS

Racial and Ethnic Differences in Health: Recent Trends, Current Patterns, Future Directions

Raynard S. Kington

Herbert W. Nickens

Racial and Ethnic Trends in Children's and Adolescents' Behavior and Development

Vonnie C. McLoyd

Betsy Lozoff

The Health of Minority Children in the Year 2000: The Role of Government Programs in Improving the Health Status of America's Children

Renee R. Jenkins

Racial Variations in Adult Health Status: Patterns, Paradoxes, and Prospects

David R. Williams

Health-Care Use in the Veterans Health Administration: Racial Trends and the Spirit of Inquiry

Eugene Z. Oddone

Laura A. Petersen

Morris Weinberger

APPENDIXES

A Acronyms

B Agenda: Research Conference on Racial Trends in the United States

C Biographical Sketches

Index