Abstract
The status of African Americans in relationship to the administration of justice has improved since the 1940s. Significantly, however, researchers continue to find racial discrimination and racial disadvantage operating in various aspects of the criminal justice process in numerous jurisdictions. Such findings are unacceptable in a society that claims to honor equal justice under law.
This article is reprinted from Summary, Volume 1 of the Assessment of the Status of African-Americans series, published in 1990 by the William Monroe Trotter Institute, University of Massachusetts at Boston, and edited by Wornie L. Reed. Materials included in the article were adapted from papers submitted by members of the Assessment of the Status of African-Americans Study Group on Political Participation and the Administration of Justice.
Recommended Citation
Moss, E. Yvonne; Austin, Roy; Jones, Nolan; Krisberg, Barry A.; Locke, Hubert G.; Radelet, Michael L.; and Welch, Susan
(1991)
"African-Americans and the Administration of Justice,"
Trotter Review: Vol. 5:
Iss.
3, Article 3.
Available at:
https://scholarworks.umb.edu/trotter_review/vol5/iss3/3
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