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Race and the Criminal Justice System

By Michael Blankenship

Harvard scholar Henry Louis Gates Jr. has spent much of his life studying the complex history of race and culture in America, but until last week he had never had the experience that has left so many black men questioning the criminal justice system.Read more....Dr. Gates is in for an eye-opening journey through he annals of of criminal justice policy and practices. I hope that he follows through on his proposed documentary. And I hope that we learn more about stupid policies and practices based on race while addressing a question ignored far too long - why are lower-class people (and people of color) over-represented in the criminal justice system?One place to start is an examination of race sand the death penalty. The research is quite clear - race of the victim is a predictor of who gets (and who doesn't) a death sentence...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Justice Gambit on July 22, 2009 (boomark / email).