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April 2018 Vol. 55 No. 8

Policing and race in the criminal justice system are important areas of research, discussion, and debate in schools across the US. Davis addresses these issues with this edited volume, which features the nation’s foremost scholars of policing, race, and the US criminal justice system. Esteemed scholars such as Katheryn Russell-Brown, Marc Mauer, Jeremy Travis, and Bruce Western join Davis in presenting the extent of knowledge as to how race in the US relates to police, prosecution, and judicial decision-making. This book specifically discusses racial profiling, implicit bias, police accountability, prosecutorial discretion, and poverty. The contributing authors examine the experiences of black men at every stage of the criminal justice system. The book is extremely well written and could easily be used as a resource for research or as assigned reading for a graduate seminar. Each chapter contains a full bibliography and a listing of notes for further details on claims and statements made throughout the text. A valued addition to any university library collection, especially if schools have a criminal justice or criminology program.

--D. R. Kavish, Lander University

Summing Up: Highly recommended. Upper-division undergraduates and above.