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N2  - Winner of a 2005 Gustavus Myers Outstanding Book Award (Honorable MentionAmericans fear crime, are rattled by race and avoid honest discussions of both. Anxiety, denial, miscommunication, and ignorance abound. Imaginary connections between minorities and crime become real, self-fulfilling prophecies and authentic links to race, class, gender and crime go unexplored. Katheryn Russell-Brown, author of the highly acclaimed The Color of Crime, makes her way through this intellectual minefield, determined to shed light on the most persistent and perplexing domestic policy issues. The author tackles a range of race and crime issues. From outdated research methods that perpetuate stereotypes about African Americans, women, and crime to the over hyped discourse about gangsta rap and law breaking, Russell-Brown challenges the conventional wisdom of criminology. Underground Codes delves into understudied topics such as victimization rates for Native Americans-among the highest of any racial group-and how racial profiling affects the day-to-day lives of people of color. Innovative, well-researched and meticulously documented, Underground Codes makes a case for greater public involvement in the debate over law enforcement-and our own language-that must be heard if we are to begin to have a productive national conversation about crime and race.
DO  - 10.18574/nyu/9780814769249.001.0001
DO  - doi
AB  - Winner of a 2005 Gustavus Myers Outstanding Book Award (Honorable MentionAmericans fear crime, are rattled by race and avoid honest discussions of both. Anxiety, denial, miscommunication, and ignorance abound. Imaginary connections between minorities and crime become real, self-fulfilling prophecies and authentic links to race, class, gender and crime go unexplored. Katheryn Russell-Brown, author of the highly acclaimed The Color of Crime, makes her way through this intellectual minefield, determined to shed light on the most persistent and perplexing domestic policy issues. The author tackles a range of race and crime issues. From outdated research methods that perpetuate stereotypes about African Americans, women, and crime to the over hyped discourse about gangsta rap and law breaking, Russell-Brown challenges the conventional wisdom of criminology. Underground Codes delves into understudied topics such as victimization rates for Native Americans-among the highest of any racial group-and how racial profiling affects the day-to-day lives of people of color. Innovative, well-researched and meticulously documented, Underground Codes makes a case for greater public involvement in the debate over law enforcement-and our own language-that must be heard if we are to begin to have a productive national conversation about crime and race.
T1  - Underground Codes :Race, Crime and Related Fires /
AU  - Russell-Brown, Katheryn, 
JF  - New York University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2000-2013
CN  - HV9950 .R873 2004
LA  - eng
LA  - In English.
ID  - 1480077
KW  - Crime and race
KW  - Discrimination in criminal justice administration
KW  - Discrimination in law enforcement
KW  - Minorities
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE / Discrimination & Race Relations
KW  - american.
KW  - codes.
KW  - enforcement.
KW  - examination.
KW  - influence.
KW  - law.
KW  - myths.
KW  - policy.
KW  - powerful.
KW  - public.
KW  - racial.
KW  - that.
KW  - unspoken.
SN  - 9780814769249
TI  - Underground Codes :Race, Crime and Related Fires /
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