Presumed Criminal : Black Youth and the Justice System in Postwar New York /
Suddler, Carl
Presumed Criminal : Black Youth and the Justice System in Postwar New York / Carl Suddler. - 1 online resource : 15 b/w illustrations
restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec
A startling examination of the deliberate criminalization of black youths from the 1930s totodayA stark disparity exists between black and white youth experiences in the justice system today. Black youths are perceived to be older and less innocent than their white peers. When it comes to incarceration, race trumps class, and even as black youths articulate their own experiences with carceral authorities, many Americans remain surprised by the inequalities they continue to endure. In this revealing book, Carl Suddler brings to light a much longer history of the policies and strategies that tethered the lives of black youths to the justice system indefinitely.The criminalization of black youth is inseparable from its racialized origins. In the mid-twentieth century, the United States justice system began to focus on punishment, rather than rehabilitation. By the time the federal government began to address the issue of juvenile delinquency, the juvenile justice system shifted its priorities from saving delinquent youth to purely controlling crime, and black teens bore the brunt of the transition.In New York City, increased state surveillance of predominantly black communities compounded arrest rates during the post-World War II period, providing justification for tough-on-crime policies. Questionable police practices, like stop-and-frisk, combined with media sensationalism, cemented the belief that black youth were the primary cause for concern. Even before the War on Crime, the stakes were clear: race would continue to be the crucial determinant in American notions of crime and delinquency, and black youths condemned with a stigma of criminality would continue to confront the overwhelming power of the state.
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
In English.
9781479847624 9781479812691
10.18574/nyu/9781479847624.001.0001 doi
African American youth--Social conditions--New York (State)--New York--20th century.
African Americans--Social conditions--New York (State)--New York--20th century.
Discrimination in criminal justice administration--History--New York (State)--New York--20th century.
Juvenile delinquency--History--New York (State)--New York--20th century.
Youth and violence--History--New York (State)--New York--20th century.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / African American Studies.
1943 Harlem uprising. Black Lives Matter. David Campanella. Depression-era Harlem. Fiorella La Guardia. Harlem Six. Harlem YMCA. Harlem Young Citizens Council. Harlem riot. Jane M. Bolin. Senate Subcommittee on Juvenile Delinquency. Trayvon Martin. antidelinquency. carceral state. community organizing. crime prevention. crime wave sensationalism. crime wave. criminal justice reform. criminal justice. criminalization. juvenile delinquency. juvenile justice. no-knock law. police brutality. police state. police-community relations. postwar delinquency. preventive policing. racial criminalization. racial liberalism. social justice. social psychiatry. stop-and-Frisk legislation. surveillance. wartime Harlem.
HV9106.N6 / S83 2020
364.360899607307471
Presumed Criminal : Black Youth and the Justice System in Postwar New York / Carl Suddler. - 1 online resource : 15 b/w illustrations
restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec
A startling examination of the deliberate criminalization of black youths from the 1930s totodayA stark disparity exists between black and white youth experiences in the justice system today. Black youths are perceived to be older and less innocent than their white peers. When it comes to incarceration, race trumps class, and even as black youths articulate their own experiences with carceral authorities, many Americans remain surprised by the inequalities they continue to endure. In this revealing book, Carl Suddler brings to light a much longer history of the policies and strategies that tethered the lives of black youths to the justice system indefinitely.The criminalization of black youth is inseparable from its racialized origins. In the mid-twentieth century, the United States justice system began to focus on punishment, rather than rehabilitation. By the time the federal government began to address the issue of juvenile delinquency, the juvenile justice system shifted its priorities from saving delinquent youth to purely controlling crime, and black teens bore the brunt of the transition.In New York City, increased state surveillance of predominantly black communities compounded arrest rates during the post-World War II period, providing justification for tough-on-crime policies. Questionable police practices, like stop-and-frisk, combined with media sensationalism, cemented the belief that black youth were the primary cause for concern. Even before the War on Crime, the stakes were clear: race would continue to be the crucial determinant in American notions of crime and delinquency, and black youths condemned with a stigma of criminality would continue to confront the overwhelming power of the state.
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
In English.
9781479847624 9781479812691
10.18574/nyu/9781479847624.001.0001 doi
African American youth--Social conditions--New York (State)--New York--20th century.
African Americans--Social conditions--New York (State)--New York--20th century.
Discrimination in criminal justice administration--History--New York (State)--New York--20th century.
Juvenile delinquency--History--New York (State)--New York--20th century.
Youth and violence--History--New York (State)--New York--20th century.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / African American Studies.
1943 Harlem uprising. Black Lives Matter. David Campanella. Depression-era Harlem. Fiorella La Guardia. Harlem Six. Harlem YMCA. Harlem Young Citizens Council. Harlem riot. Jane M. Bolin. Senate Subcommittee on Juvenile Delinquency. Trayvon Martin. antidelinquency. carceral state. community organizing. crime prevention. crime wave sensationalism. crime wave. criminal justice reform. criminal justice. criminalization. juvenile delinquency. juvenile justice. no-knock law. police brutality. police state. police-community relations. postwar delinquency. preventive policing. racial criminalization. racial liberalism. social justice. social psychiatry. stop-and-Frisk legislation. surveillance. wartime Harlem.
HV9106.N6 / S83 2020
364.360899607307471