{"product_id":"malign-neglect-race-crime-and-punishment-in-america-9780195077209","title":"Malign Neglect: Race  Crime  and Punishment in America","description":"\u003cp\u003eDespite the perennial claims of politicians that our courts are coddling hardened criminals  the fact is that America already sends a higher proportion of its citizens to prison--and for longer terms--than any other western nation. To quote the Canadian House of Commonss Committee on Justice  \"If locking up those who violate the law contributed to safer societies  then the United States should be the safest country in the world.\" Yet despite well-documented and mounting evidence that increased penalties alone cannot reduce crime  the Reagan and Bush administrations repeatedly lobbied for tougher mandatory sentences and more prisons. Although black crime rates have been stable for twenty years  the number and percentages of blacks in jail and prison have skyrocketed since Ronald Reagan took office. The trend continues with President Clinton  who recently called for \"three strikes youre out\" legislation dictating mandatory life sentences for third felony convictions. In Malign Neglect  Michael Tonry addresses these paradoxes with passion and lucidity. Drawing on a vast compendium of the latest statistical  legal and social science research  he takes on the explosive issues of race  crime and punishment. As unconventional as he is committed  Tonry confronts uncomfortable truths head-on. On the one hand  he is outraged by politicians talk of Willy Horton and Welfare Queens. The texts may be crime and welfare  Tonry writes  but the subtext is race. While he recognizes that the disadvantaged have no license to attack  rape or steal  and that the absolution of disadvantaged offenders would require a cynical acceptance of the suffering of victims  he argues powerfully that crime control policies can be recast so that  without diminishing public safety  they do less harm to disadvantaged black Americans. Tonry presents devastating evidence that our current policies are decimating black communities  and impeding the movement of disadvantaged black Americans into the social and economic mainstream of modern America. A blistering attack on worn-out misconceptions about race  poverty  crime and punishment and a fearless prescription for change  Malign Neglect is an indispensable briefing paper on a topic which goes to the heart and soul of the nation.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45792606650421,"sku":"ByrdShop_0195077202","price":64.3,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780195077209.jpg?v=1784755411","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/malign-neglect-race-crime-and-punishment-in-america-9780195077209","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}