Punishing Race

This book addresses enduring paradoxes of racial disparities in America and the problems of race in the criminal justice system. The criminal justice system is the latest in a series of devices, including slavery, Jim Crow, and legally countenanced discrimination, that have maintained white dominance over black people. Setting out a new agenda, Tonry pushes for overdue-and realistic-changes in racial profiling and sentencing, and to the War on Drugs, to reduce
their staggering human and social costs.