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The Color of Justice: Race, Ethnicity, and Crime in America (The Wadsworth Contemporary Issues in Crime and Justice Series) 5th Edition

by Samuel Walker (Author), Cassia Spohn (Author), Miriam DeLone (Author)

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Comprehensive and balanced, THE COLOR OF JUSTICE is the definitive book on current research and theories of racial and ethnic discrimination within America�s Criminal Justice system. The best and the most recent research on patterns of criminal behavior and victimization, police practices, court processing and sentencing, the death penalty, and correctional programs are covered giving students the facts and theoretical foundation they need to make their own informed decisions about discrimination in the system. Uniquely unbiased, THE COLOR OF JUSTICE makes every effort to incorporate discussion of all major race groups found in the United States

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Samuel Walker is Professor Emeritus of Criminal Justice at the University of Nebraska, Omaha, where he taught for 31 years before retiring in 2005. He is the author of 13 books on policing, criminal justice history and policy, and civil liberties. His current research involves police accountability, focusing primarily on citizen oversight of the police and police Early Intervention Systems (EIS). Originally trained as a historian, he is completing a book on U.S. presidents and civil liberties. His personal website, with information on police accountability is: http://samuelwalker.net.

Cassia Spohn is Professor of Criminology and Criminal Justice at Arizona State University. She has published extensively on prosecutors' charging decisions in sexual assault cases; the effect of race, ethnicity, and gender on sentencing decisions; sentencing of drug offenders; and the deterrent effect of imprisonment. She is currently conducting a National Institute of Justice-funded study of police and prosecutorial decision making in sexual assault cases in Los Angeles.

Miriam DeLone is Professor of Criminal Justice at Fayetteville State University in North Carolina. Her research interests include political economy and social control; race, ethnicity, gender, and sentencing; and corrections. Her teaching interests are in the areas of minorities and crime, criminology, corrections, law and social control, the nature of crime, and the administration of justice. She is currently writing in the areas of media and crime and crime prevention through a public health perspective.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Cengage Learning
Publication date ‏ : ‎ June 16, 2011
Edition ‏ : ‎ 5th
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Print length ‏ : ‎ 560 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1111346925
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1111346928
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.55 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6.5 x 0.75 x 9.25 inches

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Customers find the book well-written and interesting, with one mentioning it enlightens readers about various aspects of crime and justice. However, the value for money receives mixed feedback, with several customers describing it as the worst textbook they've read.

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Customers find the book interesting and valuable as a school resource, with one customer noting how it enlightens readers about various aspects of crime and justice.

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Genesis Pimentel
great book!
Reviewed in the United States on February 23, 2014
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it's very good for people who want to learn about this sort of thing, interesting and not boring like most texts.

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The book is for school. The book came on time and I was able to get started on my work right away.

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Razor
Samuel Walker is the go-to-guy on this topic.
Reviewed in the United States on April 26, 2015
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Samuel Walker was (at least when I was a student) one of the go to guys for collaborating all the information on race and the criminal justice system in sociology and criminology. The book is easy to follow, and is effectively a metanalysis of a lot of the data. One of the reasons this was such a valuable resource is because he mentions his website, where he actively updates and discusses the ongoing research originally addressed in the text.

Any student interested in a handy reference for race relations in the criminal justice system should be happy with this book. My only criticism is that it's a little old and you should maybe wait for Samuel Walker's newer work if your goal is to write papers on it, because your professor might want sources that are more contemporary.

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NobodysCandy
Times change quickly...update needed.
Reviewed in the United States on February 22, 2017
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Well written without too much fluff. Cover's subject matter that is being discussed in class well, however, it needs to be updated...maybe next semester/quarter.

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Take with a grain of salt
Reviewed in the United States on August 28, 2016
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This book is clearly biased and has glaring errors.
Editing/typing error example: "Regarding violent victimization rates by urbanization, generally victimization rates are highest in rural areas and decline in suburban areas, with the lowest rates in rural areas." (page 47-48 in 5th edition)
Wait, what? How is it that victimization rates are both higher AND lower in rural areas? Granted, basic logic suggests that victimization should be higher in URBAN areas as opposed to rural areas simply based on the fact that urban areas are higher in population. Regardless, for a supposedly highly regarded textbook that has been printed in at least 5 editions...glaring errors like this should rarely (if ever) occur. As such, even this error alone causes me to read with extreme caution.

Bias example:
These were hypothetical situations described in the book. "Let us imagine a rural county in the northwestern United States, however, where there are no African American residents. The absence of African Americans from juries would represent a racial disparity, but not discrimination."
Okay, that's fair.
But then this hypothetical situation was posited: "Imagine that a police department arrested only African Americans for suspected felonies and never arrested a white person. That situation would represent racial discrimination in arrest." (page 27 in the 5th edition) Why does that represent racial discrimination? Based on the vague information given, you can not just ASSUME that racial discrimination took place. A logical person should not jump to such a definitive conclusion with so few details.

This book is wrought with similar "conclusions" taking facts and interpreting them in the authors' own views to support their claims. I do not find that they are lying about the regurgitated statistics that they pull from the BJS, NCVS, et cetera... But as the authors have already pointed out "After all, statistics can be interpreted in many different ways" (page 4 in 5th edition) and they willingly do so throughout the text. Early on, the authors admit that statistics provided by the previously mentioned agencies and others are not perfect and likely do not accurately represent the topics studied (e.g. Hispanics are sometimes grouped together with Caucasians)...yet, these flawed statistics are consistently used and then interpreted in a matter-of-fact fashion that supports the authors' biases.

I have the misfortune of reading this "text" for a college class. I am extremely disappointed that my college has decided to choose such a woeful excuse for an "academic text". If you share this misfortune, I please urge you to read it (or anything deemed "academic") with a grain of salt--everyone has an agenda. You need to sort through the facts yourself and come to the conclusion that supports the evidence.

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Reasonably priced.
Reviewed in the United States on June 4, 2019
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I'm using it for a class I'm taking.

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Regina Antoine
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Reviewed in the United States on November 28, 2018
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It’s just a book, no reason to give it less than 5 stars

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Extremely satisfied. Paperback book is in excellent condition. I would highly recommend this site.

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