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Racial Disparities In Punishment And Alienation: Rebelling For Justice, Adjoa A. Aiyetoro
Racial Disparities In Punishment And Alienation: Rebelling For Justice, Adjoa A. Aiyetoro
Adjoa A. Aiyetoro
Racial Disparities in Punishment and Alienation: Rebelling for Justice
Abstract
African Americans have been over-represented in the criminal punishment system in the United States since after Reconstruction. This article is the first scholarly analysis of the major role the insidious process of racial subordination plays in creating black alienation and black criminality. Sociologists, led by Emile Durkheim and Robert K. Merton, articulate the relationship between alienation and crime, and yet fail to inject the role that racial subordination plays in this relationship.
This article is also a departure from the usual scholarly and analytical approaches that have either been simply …