Currie Elliott
Currie Elliott - A Peculiar Indifference The Neglected Toll Of Violence On Black America - Paperback
Currie Elliott - A Peculiar Indifference The Neglected Toll Of Violence On Black America - Paperback
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Description: Named a best book of 2020 by the New York Times and Kirkus Reviews A smart timely deeply disturbing and essential book by a veteran scholar and leading expert on the criminal legal system . This is not a Black crisis but a national emergency. The New York Times Book Review About 170,000 Black Americans have died in homicides just since the year 2000. Violence takes more years of life from Black men than cancer stroke and diabetes combined; a young Black man in the United States has a fifteen times greater chance of dying from violence than his white counterpart. Even Black women suffer violent death at a higher rate than white men despite homicide's usual gender patterns. Yet while the country has been rightly outraged by the recent spate of police killings of Black Americans the shocking amount of everyday violence that plagues African American communities receives far less attention and has nearly disappeared as a target of public policy. As the acclaimed criminologist Elliott Currie makes clear this pervasive violence is a direct result of the continuing social and economic marginalization of many Black communities in America. Those conditions help perpetuate a level of preventable trauma and needless suffering that has no counterpart anywhere in the developed world. Compelling and accessible drawing on a rich array of both classic and contemporary research A Peculiar Indifference describes the dimensions and consequences of this enduring emergency explains its causes and offers an urgent plea for long - overdue social action to end it.
Title: A Peculiar Indifference The Neglected Toll Of Violence On Black America
Author(s): Currie Elliott
Publisher: St Martin's Press
Barcode: 9781250798497
Pages: 288 Pages
Publication Date: 1/18/2022
Category: Crime & Criminology
Description: Named a best book of 2020 by the New York Times and Kirkus Reviews A smart timely deeply disturbing and essential book by a veteran scholar and leading expert on the criminal legal system . This is not a Black crisis but a national emergency. The New York Times Book Review About 170,000 Black Americans have died in homicides just since the year 2000. Violence takes more years of life from Black men than cancer stroke and diabetes combined; a young Black man in the United States has a fifteen times greater chance of dying from violence than his white counterpart. Even Black women suffer violent death at a higher rate than white men despite homicide's usual gender patterns. Yet while the country has been rightly outraged by the recent spate of police killings of Black Americans the shocking amount of everyday violence that plagues African American communities receives far less attention and has nearly disappeared as a target of public policy. As the acclaimed criminologist Elliott Currie makes clear this pervasive violence is a direct result of the continuing social and economic marginalization of many Black communities in America. Those conditions help perpetuate a level of preventable trauma and needless suffering that has no counterpart anywhere in the developed world. Compelling and accessible drawing on a rich array of both classic and contemporary research A Peculiar Indifference describes the dimensions and consequences of this enduring emergency explains its causes and offers an urgent plea for long - overdue social action to end it.
Title: A Peculiar Indifference The Neglected Toll Of Violence On Black America
Author(s): Currie Elliott
Publisher: St Martin's Press
Barcode: 9781250798497
Pages: 288 Pages
Publication Date: 1/18/2022
Category: Crime & Criminology
