A startling examination of the purposeful criminalization of black youths from the 1930 s to today A stark variation exists between black and white youth experiences in the justice system today. Black youths are viewed to be older and less innocent than their white peers. When it comes to imprisonment, race defeats class, and even as black youths articulate their own experiences with carceral authorities, numerous Americans stay shocked by the inequalities they continue to sustain. In this exposing book, Carl Suddler exposes a lot longer history of the policies and techniques 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 started 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 concerns from saving delinquent youth to simply managing crime, and black teenagers bore the brunt of the shift. In New York City City, increased state security of mainly black neighborhoods compounded arrest rates throughout the post– World War II period, providing validation for tough-on-crime policies. Doubtful authorities practices, like stop-and-frisk, integrated with media sensationalism, cemented the belief that black youth were the main cause for issue. Even before the War on Criminal activity, the stakes were clear: race would continue to be the crucial factor in American notions of crime and delinquency, and black youths condemned with a stigma of criminality would continue to challenge the frustrating power of the state.
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