RT Book
T1 Presumed Criminal: Black Youth and the Justice System in Postwar New York
A1 Suddler, Carl
LA English
PP New York, NY
PB New York University Press
YR 2019
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1724742027
AB 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
AB Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Introduction: “The Way I See It”: Reframing Black Youth and Racial Injustice -- 1. “The Child Is Never Basically Bad”: Creating Crime through Prevention -- 2. “Margie’s Day”: Youth, Race, and Uprisings in Wartime Harlem -- 3. “Every Generation Has Had the Habit of Going to the Devil”: Constructions of a Postwar Delinquent -- 4. “Beware of the Cat on the Corner”: Deconstructing a Cycle of Outrage -- 5. “In All Our Harlems”: Policing Black Youths through the War on Crime -- Afterword: “Without a Wrinkle in Today”: An Ode to “Young Forever” -- Acknowledgments -- Manuscript Sources -- Notes -- Index -- About the Author
CN HV9106.N6
SN 9781479812691
K1 Youth and violence : New York (State) : New York : History : 20th century
K1 Juvenile Delinquency : New York (State) : New York : History : 20th century
K1 Discrimination in criminal justice administration : New York (State) : New York : History : 20th century
K1 African Americans : New York (State) : New York : Social conditions : 20th century
K1 African American youth : New York (State) : New York : Social conditions : 20th century
K1 SOCIAL SCIENCE / Black Studies (Global)
K1 SOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / African American Studies
K1 1943 Harlem uprising
K1 Black Lives Matter
K1 David Campanella
K1 Depression-era Harlem
K1 Fiorella La Guardia
K1 Harlem Six
K1 Harlem YMCA
K1 Harlem Young Citizens Council
K1 Harlem riot
K1 Jane M. Bolin
K1 Senate Subcommittee on Juvenile Delinquency
K1 Trayvon Martin
K1 antidelinquency
K1 carceral state
K1 community organizing
K1 crime prevention
K1 crime wave sensationalism
K1 crime wave
K1 criminal justice reform
K1 criminal justice
K1 criminalization
K1 juvenile delinquency
K1 juvenile justice
K1 no-knock law
K1 police brutality
K1 police state
K1 police-community relations
K1 postwar delinquency
K1 preventive policing
K1 racial criminalization
K1 Aufsatzsammlung
K1 New York : Staat : Diskriminierung : Schwarze, Friedrich Oskar von : 1816-1886 : Jugendlicher Täter
K1 eBook-DeGruyter-EBS-2021-2022
DO 10.18574/9781479812691