TY - BOOK AU - Suddler,Carl TI - Presumed Criminal: Black Youth and the Justice System in Postwar New York SN - 9781479847624 AV - HV9106.N6 S83 2020 U1 - 364.360899607307471 23 PY - 2019///] CY - New York, NY : PB - New York University Press, KW - African American youth KW - New York (State) KW - New York KW - Social conditions KW - 20th century KW - African Americans KW - Discrimination in criminal justice administration KW - History KW - Juvenile delinquency KW - Youth and violence KW - SOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / African American Studies KW - bisacsh KW - 1943 Harlem uprising KW - Black Lives Matter KW - David Campanella KW - Depression-era Harlem KW - Fiorella La Guardia KW - Harlem Six KW - Harlem YMCA KW - Harlem Young Citizens Council KW - Harlem riot KW - Jane M. Bolin KW - Senate Subcommittee on Juvenile Delinquency KW - Trayvon Martin KW - antidelinquency KW - carceral state KW - community organizing KW - crime prevention KW - crime wave sensationalism KW - crime wave KW - criminal justice reform KW - criminal justice KW - criminalization KW - juvenile delinquency KW - juvenile justice KW - no-knock law KW - police brutality KW - police state KW - police-community relations KW - postwar delinquency KW - preventive policing KW - racial criminalization KW - racial liberalism KW - social justice KW - social psychiatry KW - stop-and-Frisk legislation KW - surveillance KW - wartime Harlem N1 - restricted access N2 - 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 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781479812691 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9781479812691/original ER -