From: "Rodney Coates" <coatesrd@casmail.muohio.edu>
To: "PROGRESSIVE SOCIOLOGISTS NETWORK" <psn@csf.colorado.edu>
Subject: books and articles dealing with race and crime
Date: Tue, 3 Nov 1998 15:11:55 -0500
In-Reply-To: <36380D44.C092B1E2@icanect.net>
Recent books within the general topic include David C. Anderson, Crime and
the Politics of Hysteria: How the Willie Horton Story Changed American
Justice (1995); E.M. Beck and Stewart E. Tolnay, A Festival of Violence: An
Analysis of Southern Lynchings, 1882-1930 (1995); Marvin W. Dulaney, Black
Police in America (1996); Ethnicity, Race, and Crime: Perspectives across
Time and Place (Darnell F. Hawkins ed. 1996); Randall Kennedy, Race, Crime,
and the Law (1997); Jerome G. Miller, Search and Destroy: African-American
Males in the Criminal Justice System (1996); Eric W. Rise, The Martinsville
Seven: Race, Rape, and Capital Punishment (1995); Michael Tonry, Malign
Neglect - Race, Crime, and Punishment in America (1995); Maryanne Vollers,
Ghosts of Mississippi: The Murder of Medgar Evers, the Trials of Byron de la
Beckwith, and the Haunting of the New South (1995).

Obviously, journal articles are even more abundant. Here is a small sampling
of recent unpublished empirical papers: John M. Conley, et. al., The Impact
of Race and Class of the Accused on Jury Decision-Making (1997) (reporting
that mock juries were more likely to convict white defendants); John J.
Donohue III & Steven D. Levitt, The Impact of Race on Policing, Arrest
Patterns, and Crime (1997) (studying how the racial composition of a police
force affects the racial pattern of arrests and crime); Franklin Gilliam Jr.
& Shanto Iyengar, Prime Suspects: Script-Based Reasoning About Race and
Crime (1997) (reporting that 42% of subjects who viewed a staged news report
of a crime recalled the suspect's race when none was provided; 90% of the
false recollections were of African-American or Hispanic perpetrators);
David B. Mustard, Racial, Ethnic and Gender Disparities in Sentencing:
Evidence from the U.S. Federal Courts (1998) (finding that, on average and
controlling for criminological factors, federal judges give blacks sentences
that are six months longer than whites, due mostly to departures from the
guidelines).




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